Czech companies see the most significant risk for their operations in workforce shortage. It is followed by an increase in administrative burden and dishonest behaviour of employees such as crime, theft or fraud. These are the results of the qualitative Corporate Risk Management Survey for 2017 that Aon conducted in the Czech Republic for the first time. The comparison with its Global Risk Management Study that Aon has prepared on a worldwide level for many years shows that Czech organisations significantly differ from companies operating in other parts of the world both in the perception of the significance of individual risks and the approach to their management. Only 1 out of 10 Czech companies have their own risk management department. 

The study Blaming the Young Misses the Point: Re-assessing Young People’s Political Participation over Time Using the ‘Identity-equivalence Procedure by Ch. Schnaudt from Leibniz Institute for the Social Science  and M. Weinhardt from Bielefeld University offers a re-assessment of young people’s political participation by investigating the structure and levels of political participation across young, adult and old people in Germany over the period 2002-2014.

BMW Group: Company’s first development location in Eastern Europe. Testing of ground-breaking technologies, such as electrification, digitalisation and automated driving. Investment in three-digit-million € range. Several hundred new jobs. Commissioning of 500-hectare area planned for early next decade.

Globally, girls are much better than boys at working together to solve problems, according to the first OECD PISA assessment of collaborative problem solving. Czech 15-year-olds responded to questions related to team work, relations with peers and teachers.