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The understanding of motherhood is analyzed in this report. The understanding of motherhood is looked upon from the perspective of feminist movement as well as psychology, Catholic social teaching, Lithuanian social policy. In this report the results of empirical research of the high-school graduates on the subject of motherhood is presented and analyzed.

Despite the long-term story of poverty and social exclusion research and political actions, the poverty continues to grow in biggest part of world, including EU countries. Despite the huge sums of money of EU support funds, the poverty does persist and to an impressive extent in biggest part of EU. The states of poverty in Lithuania and in EU as well are outlined in present paper. A special heed to the influence of different social groups and to the different dynamic patterns of these groups is presented in the paper. In defiance of long-term story of analytic research a number of unresolved theoretical problems especially for the integrative framework of micro- and macro acting factors on individual and regional levels of poverty does still persists too. A multilevel regressive model of poverty processes is developed and adapted in Lithuania in present paper. An effect of macro factors such as the territorial dimension, the unemployment rate on the poverty probability, and the impact of individual characteristics such as the education and professional experience level on the risk at poverty are in research agenda of future modelling.

Contemporary organizations optimizing its management by implementing integrated management system, which concludes to the required standards of quality management, employees‘ health and safety management, social responsibility and environmental protection management. It is required long-term united efforts of strategic level leaders and high organizational maturity to ensure fluently running stages of planning management systems integration, preparing documentation, implementing and realizing integrated management systems. Coordination and supervision of management systems is a complex goal, which needs constant redesigning and innovations. As there is no international standard, that would submit unambiguous recommendations about ensuring the management system integration, every organization copes with this assignment on it‘s own. The paper discusses the benefit of integrated management systems for the organizations. With reference to the empirical study, article highlights the integrated management system implementation areas of concern in Lithuania. The paper gives the results of analysis that are equally beneficial for practicians interested in implementation, supporting and expanding of IMS, and scientists, searching for solutions for the problems of optimizing the organizational activities.