Current conditions in the economies in transition, affected by the globalization of the business, focus on social awareness for improvement and development of the professional soft skills. While one part of the managers faces with bad forecasts for the success of the company, where they work, the rest of them, quite confidently and reliably recognize all possibilities, even in critical conditions and fail to cope with the challenges and to express their superiority above others. These professionals, so successful in modern organizations, are making the valuable asset of the companies that are leading. These managers possessing appropriate soft skills become the corner stone of organizational business success.
The paper deals with one of the most important issues of the organizational business strategy in companies in developing countries, running their businesses in the age of "New Economy". The alignment of the project management methodologies, tools and techniques with company's strategy is one of highest priorities for top managers and their decisions. The survey and the analysis of the results create a basis for an insight into the conditions that are present in our practice, concerning application of the project management methodologies, especially using ICT in conducting their businesses in a sensitive economic environment, as it is in developing countries. The results of the study may help companies for appropriate business strategy development in the new business and market environment.
Students’ graph understanding was chosen for the research because teachers, especially physics teachers, tend to use graphs as a second language, assuming that their students can extract most of the information from them. This research aims to determine the differences between Serbian and North Macedonian students’ graph understanding of kinematics and their perceived mental effort. Differences in physics curricula in the Republic of Serbia and Republic of North Macedonia are taken into account and compared as well as students’ achievement on the TUG-K knowledge test to find explanations of potential differences and guidelines for change in the approaches to physics teaching. The sample includes 630 first-grade grammar school students (313 students from Serbia and 317 from North Macedonia) from randomly selected classes. Mann–Whitney U-test determined possible differences in student achievement and perceived mental effort. The main results indicate a difference in students perceived mental effort. North Macedonian students perceived less mental effort than Serbian ones, which leads to higher instructional efficiency of teaching approaches applied in North Macedonia than in Serbia. Based on the results, the recommendation for improving the Serbian education system lies in reducing mental effort through efficient allocation of teaching hours.
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