Sofia D. Anastasiadou

Economic Crisis in Greece and the Consequential “Brain Drain”

Economic crisis in Greece had enormous impact on society and people’s lives. Political corruption, cronyism, nepotism, partisanship, bureaucracy, are some of the main causes which lead to the country’s plague, unemployment. “Brain drain” in Greece is inevitable. Thus, this study tries to record students’ opinions towards the Greek scientist emigration. The results reveal that Greek students are extremely pessimistic that unemployment could be restrained or reversed and that they believe that both Greek politicians and European authorities are incapable of leading the country into economic recovery.

Greek Tertiary Education System Evaluation in Respect of Quality Assurance Dimensions According to Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Model

The current study evaluates Greek students’ attitudes toward Quality Assurance Dimensions in Tertiary Education System with Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Model. Using a sample of 225 students describing Quality Assurance Dimensions in Tertiary Education, results of structural equation modeling and path analysis show that all of the hypothesized causal relationships in Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellence Model (MBNQA) are statistically significant.

Occupational Mobility Dimensions in Greece

Abstract Mobility of labour both geographical and job or occupational mobility according to reports of several European Foundations and Institutes (e.g. Eurofound, IZA, CEPS, Danish Technological Institute etc), is an EU key objective of the European labour market. While mobility operates as one of EUs real adjustment mechanisms for macroeconomic shocks, its low levels still remain a serious problem for the European Integration (Janiak, A. &Wasmer, E., 2008). As there is a lack of relevant researches on this field in Greece, this paper attempts to study the employment mobility of Greek unemployed job seekers. Job mobility, geographical mobility and occupational mobility, combined with job mobility or regardless job mobility, are being correlated with career attitudes, using the Boundaryless Career Attitudes Scale, constructed by Briscoe & Hall (2005), as well as several concepts of networking, based on three questionnaires studying job seeking, constructed by Wanberg et al. (2000) and Lambert et al. (2006) . Implicative Statistical Analysis was released for the data analysis. In this study 62 unemployed people expressed their insights regarding occupational mobility. A strong argument of the impact of occupational mobility on human lives in Greece was made and further implications were discussed