Background: Freelancers have a significant impact on economic growth due to their specific skills that are nowadays often used as complements to the regular full-time workforce of a company, not as their competition. Objectives: The study aims to investigate employers’ attitudes towards the employment of freelancers in Croatia, taking into account the place of establishment, the operational market, the size, and the industry of the organization hiring freelancers. Methods/Approach: Differences among organizations according to their attitudes towards freelancers are analyzed by multiple 2xc Fisher’s exact tests with the Monte Carlo Simulation, and binomial logistic regression analysis. Results: Significant differences are found in terms of the operational market and the industry in which the company operates. Besides, the binomial logistic regression analysis identified the following independent constructs as significant predictors of hiring freelancers: the region of the company’s seat, company size, and area of operation. Conclusions: The national legislation should complement the developmental policies to encourage employment and especially self-employment of freelancers.

Business organizational communication, due to digitalization and transformations that take place in this sense in all business processes, takes a significantly different form from the one that used to be usually up to recently. Online business communication is usually more economical and faster than offline communication, and this reflects its important advantages, but the lack of contact can be one of the disadvantages and can lead to information overload and reduced concentration of recipients. The pandemic, which has driven businesses to focus on digital communication channels as much as possible, certainly has a significant impact on accelerating this change. Determining the extent to which these channels are optimal for overall business and communication processes is the focus of this paper, which presents secondary research of available scientific theory. The aim of this paper is to gather in one place the known scientific facts and determine in which future direction research of business communication should go. The paper shows the impact of the need to adapt to new communication channels on stress levels and points to the problem of a lack of feedback with nonverbal signals that are common in traditional contact communication (which is not online). In addition, the results indicate increased use of written business communication, which raises questions about the increased need for education in this regard. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Implementation of organizational communication, and education on managing communication processes and their correlation to business success are central to sustainable business management. In this regards, negative messages as part of business communication may have poor outcomes and it is widely and wrongly considered that they should be avoided. However, negative messages are an essential element of every business organization, they cannot be avoided and are of high importance for leading sustainable management. This is why an educated and thoughtful approach to communication is required. The main goal of this article is to determine the notion of negative messages, as well as to present the extent of negative messages in the everyday communication of an organization, and emphasize the importance of acquiring skills necessary for a direct and indirect approach to the communication process.

The ability to identify, understand and interpret non-verbal cues makes communication among people high quality and successful. In this paper, special attention is paid to non-verbal communication in the classroom, with emphasis on the non-verbal behaviour of teachers. In this paper the study of non-verbal behaviour of classroom teachers and final-year-students of the Faculty of Teacher Education is presented. The aim was to detect forms of non-verbal behaviour that are used in teaching situations by teachers and by students. The study was conducted in primary schools according to the Flanders model of interaction analysis. Ten elements that are included in the Flanders model of teaching communication were adapted to the specific needs of this research. The study comprised fifteen classroom teachers with longer working experience and fifteen students in the final year at the Faculty of Teacher Education. The following channels of teacher's non-verbal communication were observed in the study: visual communication, movements within a lecture, use of paralanguage, facial expressions of teachers and teacher's relationship towards students. The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between teachers and students - future teachers (t = 0.303 <2.04 limits at a significance level of 0.05) in the use of different channels of non-verbal communication, which differs from previous research around the world and in Croatia (Globočnik Žunac & Bakić-Tomić 2011, Howe, 2002, Napan 1994, Neill 1991, Klinzig and Tisher 1986, Wragg & Dooley 1984, Jacker et al. 1965) which generally confirmed the existence of differences between samples. Key words: classroom teaching; Flanders interaction analysis (FIA); non-verbal communication; teacher---SažetakSposobnost prepoznavanja, razumijevanja i tumačenja neverbalnih znakova čini komunikaciju među ljudima kvalitetnom i uspješnom. U ovom radu posebna se pozornost posvećuje neverbalnoj komunikaciji u razredu, a naglasak je na neverbalnom ponašanju nastavnika. U ovome je radu predstavljena studija neverbalnoga ponašanja učitelja i studenata završne godine studija na Učiteljskome fakultetu. Cilj je bio otkriti oblike neverbalnoga ponašanja kojima se koriste nastavnici i studenti - budući nastavnici u nastavnim situacijama. Studija je provedena u osnovnim školama prema Flandersovu modelu analize interakcije. Deset elemenata koji su uključeni u Flandersov model komunikacije u nastavi prilagođeni su specifičnim potrebama ovog istraživanja. Istraživanje je obuhvatilo petnaest učitelja s više radnog iskustva i petnaest studenata na posljednjoj godini na Učiteljskome fakultetu. Istraživani su ovi kanali neverbalne komunikacije u nastavi: vizualna komunikacija, pokreti na predavanju, korištenje parajezika, izrazi lica učitelja i odnos učitelja prema studentima. Rezultati su pokazali da nema statistički značajne razlike između nastavnika i studenata - budućih nastavnika (t = 0,303 <2,04 ograničenja na razini značajnosti 0,05) u korištenju različitih kanala neverbalne komunikacije, te da se dobiveni rezultati razlikuju od rezultata prethodnih istraživanja u svijetu i u Hrvatskoj (Globočnik Žunac & Bakić-Tomić, 2011, Howe, 2002, Napan 1994, Neill 1991, Klinzig i Tisher 1986, Wragg & Dooley 1984, Jacker sur., 1965) koja su općenito potvrdila postojanje razlike između uzoraka.Ključne riječi: Flandrersova analiza interakcije (FIA); neverbalna komunikacija; razredna nastava; učitelj

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