Counselling for self-employment: the application of decision support system

    Rasa Smaliukienė Info
    Svajonė Bekešienė Info
    Gitana Dudzevičiūtė Info

Abstract

The article considers the provision of decision support opportunities for unemployed people who are seeking for self-employment and opening a new business. The purpose of this paper is to consider the application of decision support system (DSS) for e-counselling of the unemployed, specially focusing on self-employment solutions. The development of DSS is tackling main social challenges of the long-term unemployed: it conveys an experience from previous employment; provides new business opportunities, which are highly related to person’s hobbies; and it connects people by developing complementary groups of same interests and same positive attitudes towards entrepreneurship. From a technical perspective we suggest that it is advisable to place a workflow engine at the core of the Internet based e-decision making system. This will let us generate and manage personalized and adaptable individual recommendation access. The access flow algorithm of DSS consists of three interconnected blocs: the first bloc is constructed for the self- containment as process logic and analysis of consumer objectives; the second one analyses person’s ability for entrepreneurship, it also evaluates individual’s overall motivation to start his own business; and the third bloc provides with potential complementary business partners or business start-up.

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self-employment, unemployment, decision support system, recession

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Smaliukienė, R., Bekešienė, S., & Dudzevičiūtė, G. (2012). Counselling for self-employment: the application of decision support system. Business: Theory and Practice, 13(1), 18-26. https://doi.org/10.3846/btp.2012.02

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2012-03-07

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Smaliukienė, R., Bekešienė, S., & Dudzevičiūtė, G. (2012). Counselling for self-employment: the application of decision support system. Business: Theory and Practice, 13(1), 18-26. https://doi.org/10.3846/btp.2012.02

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