The primary aim of the presented paper is the identification of barriers to knowledge sharing by scientific R&D project team members in a Czech academic environment. In order to fulfill this aim, secondary analysis was used to process the literature search in the context of the problem being solved, and qualitative and quantitative research in the form of a structured interview and a questionnaire survey were used to identify the barriers to knowledge sharing by scientific R&D project team members. The essential output of the presented paper is the identification of barriers to knowledge sharing by members of the scientific R&D project team in Czech public and private universities and the discussion of their causes and impacts in scientific R&D projects. With regard to the aim of the presented paper and the formulated research questions, our effort is that the presented discussion outputs are not only academic considerations but scientific analyses and outputs capable of concrete life. Above all, we propose an innovation of Riege's model of barriers to knowledge sharing, as it was chosen as a comparative basis for our research; however, it was found that it is not applicable in the current conditions of scientific R&D project management in the Czech academic environment. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2023-04-01-02 Full Text: PDF

The aim of the presented paper is to capture the gender aspects of sports culture through the gender structure of Slovakia's national sports organizations members and their management positions. In order to fulfill the aim of the paper, a hierarchical cluster analysis was applied using IBM SPSS Statistics. As a part of this analysis, due to the cardinality of the input variables, the Euclidean distance measurement method and the Ward method were used. The results of the research examining 65 national sports organizations in Slovakia confirmed that the gender in Slovak organized sports is manifested on the one hand by the dominance of men in the membership of sports organizations, with the exception of sports those are explicitly understood as female, but also in the representation on the management and decision-making positions. Furthermore, we managed to find out that there is a relationship between the gender structure of the membership base and the gender structure in management and decision-making positions, which is reciprocal and at the same time asymmetrical. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2022-03-04-04 Full Text: PDF

The presented paper deals with the symbolism of colors, i.e., color associations. The aim of the paper is to verify the correlation of colors and their symbolism. The combination of color and its meaning was based on the existence of a physiological variable, namely the psychophysiological state. The diurnal preference of individuals was used for this purpose, which divided the subjects according to the chronotype into morning and evening groups. From this starting point, the color preferences of the examined people were monitored in the final phase by means of a color evaluation test. The theoretical part of the paper provides a theoretical framework and starting points for research. The research part describes in detail the research process, especially the methods used. The research itself was attended by 720 people aged 20–40 years. As research methods were used: the Composite scale of morningness, Bourdon's performance test, the Subjective scale of activation, and the Color evaluation test. The respondents had the task of associating colors with their current psychophysiological state. The established hypotheses were mostly confirmed. From a broader point of view, we have come to the conclusion that people attribute certain properties to individual colors, so there is psychic content belonging to individual colors. The colors expressing activity included yellow, orange, and red, and respondents from the group of evening chronotypes also included blue. Calm colors include blue, green, and gray. The most indifferent color was purple. The obtained results were statistically significant. There were also relatively strong correlations in the evaluation of colors due to the psychological focus of the research. Other stimuli for research were also found in the research. Doi: 10.28991/ESJ-2022-06-04-010 Full Text: PDF