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EU and Hungary are probing irregularities in dozens of public tenders won by Istvan Tiborcz’s company.
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Project risk management is an important aspect of project management. According to the PMBoK, risk management is one of the ten knowledge areas in which a project manager must be competent. Project risk management remains a relatively undeveloped discipline, distinct from the risk management used by operational, financial, and underwriters’ risk management. This gulf is due to several factors: risk aversion (especially public understanding and risk in social activities), confusion in the application of risk management to projects, and the additional sophistication of probability mechanics above those of accounting, finance, and engineering. The aim of the presented paper is to demonstrate how to use RIPRAN (the Czech project for risk analysis) as a main part of a feasibility study of a new product project in a manufacturing company. To fulfill this primary aim, we formulated these secondary aims: – To provide a critical analysis of the available information sources dealing with risk management in new product projects in manufacturing companies. – To study and profoundly understand RIPRAN, project risk analysis, its history, application, principles, rules, and exceptions. – To discuss with the author of RIPRAN about the RIPRAN application in new product projects in manufacturing companies of non-Czech origin. – To compile a feasibility study of the new product project. All of these highly cited secondary aims were fulfilled. A short overview of the risk management topic as well as RIPRAN’s characteristics and definition are part of the presented paper. To process this theoretical part of the paper, we used mostly analysis, synthesis, comparison, and deduction. We studied monographs, journals, and internet links with the impact of a source's topicality. The used sources are cited in the list of references. During the process of a feasibility study of a new product project provided through the analysis of our own experience, we discussed the application of the RIPRAN method to the new product project with the author of this method. We realized e-mail correspondence, phone discussions, and finally a personal meeting to control the whole RIPRAN analysis document and discuss the method’s application in the non-Czech origin business environment. To fulfill the primary aim of the presented paper, we decided to use the case study method.
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Companies are currently producing and processing larger and larger amounts of data that they were not able to effectively process and subsequently use in the management of company processes in the past. There are several technologies and tools for the analytical processing and evaluation of diverse data, such as the Big Data technology. The Industry 4.0 concept (which is closely linked with the IoT) will bring an enormous growth of produced data into the company sphere. The information value of such data can significantly affect managing and decision-making processes in a company. Here, we can see a synergy between man and technology where each influences the other. The purpose of this paper is to support the following statement: in the present business environment, we are facing the transformation of a company that, for efficient management and decision-making, needs: a) to capture and process all available data; b) to implement new tools into strategic decisions; and c) to integrate data through a single system.This article describes the possibilities of deploying the efficient use of new technologies (Big Data, Industry 4.0, and IoT) in management.
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On the basis of the overview of the literature of the subject, the significance of the problem of cooperation among SMEs in the context of the factors influencing their development is presented. The author’s own empirical research conducted among the enterprises of the sector with and without foreign capital in Poland presents the engagement of these enterprises in cooperation with other enterprises as well as with other market entities such as local government units, research and development units, or institutions of higher education. The results of the research concerning various forms of cooperation among SMEs with other enterprises as well as the size classes of the cooperating enterprises are also graphically presented. Moreover, the assessment of the similarity of the structures of the SME sector enterprises with Polish and foreign capital is made, which in turn made it possible to define their similarities and differences by taking into consideration their capital (Polish or foreign).
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The article presents a variety of issues related to generation diversity of employees in contemporary organizations. The article begins with short characteristics of the generations coexisting on the labour market nowadays, that is traditionalists, baby boomers, generation X, generation Y, generation Z (C). Based on the above mentioned characteristics, the author indicates the differences between two approaches, that is one known as age management and the other one defined as management of generation diversity. Moreover, the article outlines a number of advantages related to the implementation of various types of mentoring as a tool supporting proactive approach to generation diversity of the employees.
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Each of the existing enterprises guarantees certain working conditions to employees. Adaptation or lack thereof can affect employees in a variety of ways, and what is related to their health. Thanks to the analysis and assessment of the work environment, it is possible to determine the above-mentioned impact, which can have both negative and positive impact on the work process itself, as well as on people associated with it. Knowing the influence of the studied factors, in some cases it is possible to modify them, which causes its change, and thus the purposeful improvement of working conditions. The purpose of this article is to present the welder’s work environment and hazards resulting from the employee’s working conditions.
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The paper concerns the relationship between intellectual capital and a company’s image. It is assumed that relational capital, one component of intellectual capital, consists of a company’s image and ways of forming it. On the other hand, intellectual capital can be treated as an instrument supporting this process. The purpose of this paper is to identify selected instances where the components of a company’s intellectual capital were related to activities forming the company’s image. Relational capital and company organizational culture (within the framework of structural/organizational capital) play a part in forming a positive company image.
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In the article are presented theoretical assumptions pertain to human resource management. Mechanisms affecting employee’s motivation are introduced as well as general outline of good practice in human resource management. Showing the issues can be helpful in achiving success and obtaing competitive advantage for organisation management thanks to using adequate administration strategy.
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Effective management of human resources, which ultimately is intended to bring about measurable business results, is strictly associated with the fulfillment of business needs in the area of continued employee competence development. In connection with the ongoing demographic changes, optimal adjustment of a development offer for employees of different generations becomes a key challenge. The aim of this article is to discuss the essence of the diversity management, with particular emphasis on the criterion of age in light of development offers provided by companies. In this respect, the study encompassed selected production companies in Greater Poland. The study was conducted using the method of a partially structured survey interview in which respondents were asked about the actual practices incorporated by those companies in the area covered by the study.
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The aim of the article is to try to answer the question what are the dependencies between employees’ commitment and their age, and whether it is necessary to diversify tools affecting employee commitment in connection with generational diversity in the workplace. The analysis will cover subject literature and the results of research that have already been carried out in this area.
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The aim of the study was to assess the level of burden on labour resources due to the civilization diseases in the context of existing inequities in health observed in the relation between “old” and “new” Union. The basis of the analysis was data from the WHO database on the number of healthy life years lost as a result of chronic diseases. The analysis covered the population aged 15–69, assuming this age range as potentially productive. The data obtained referred to the years 2000–2015. The results obtained during the study confirmed the preliminary assumption that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are more exposed to the consequences of chronic diseases.
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Selection of proper multidisciplinary work team helps to work on the project, especially on the innovation project. Properly composed people can guarantee proper cooperation and communication quality during ongoing tasks, which contributes to proper conduct of the project. In the elaboration, which is based on an innovative company – Science and Technology Park of the University of Zielona Góra Ltd., there has been presented specific researches on the selection of a multidisciplinary work team, using the Myers-Briggs personality test. The aim of the article is to present a method enabling creation of multidisciplinary teams, with taking into account: multitasking of knowledge, estimation of cooperation abilities and employee relations on the example of a real functioning company.
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The aim of this article is to judge the life quality of Polish society. The order of the study is subordinated to its realisation. In the first part you can find the theoretical aspects of life quality which is based on critical analysis of literature. The second part shows the judgment of the Polish people life quality. The data from Main Statistic State has been used.
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Poland belongs to the countries with the highest percentage of stressed employees in Europe. In this study it was made an attempt to find an answer to the question how the phenomenon of destructive stress in the workplace can destroy the potential of employees. The effect of the considerations are recommendations for creating workplaces that are friendly to employees, in which they can maintain and develop their potential. The study used a review of the subject literature and available reports on stress in the workplace.
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In a turbulent market environment, the inter-organizational relations take on significant importance, which entitles to accept, in the management sciences, the network paradigm. Benefits acquired from cooperation between organizations contribute to obtaining a unique intellectual capital. Establishing relationships with other organizations contributes to broadening the amount of available knowledge as well as improving the absorption capacity of the organization. The article addresses the problem of the role of intellectual capital as a value of each enterprise in the context of its acquisition through inter-regional cooperation. The purpose of this article is to determine the intensity of cooperation of Podkarpackie enterprises with other organizations and institutions.
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The purpose of the article is therefore to define the characteristics of personal services, which allow assessing the degree of their organization and importance for the organization. As a result of the literature and empirical research, four aspects of shaping the organizational HR support were indicated: task (range and rank of tasks related to HR), structural (location within the organizational structure and/or the organization’s surroundings), personnel (number of HR employees and their professional positions) and technological (scope of investments in new technologies).
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This study examines the relationship between OHS management practices and employee organizational commitment in the construction industry of Sri Lanka. The survey was carried out among labourers in the construction industry, chosen using convenience sampling. Data were collected by distributing a self-administered anonymous structured questionnaire among 250 labourers where 155 were received. Data analyses were performed using the SPSS 23.0. Upon completing the preliminary analyses, the relationship was determined using correlation and regression analyses. Results indicated a significant positive relationship between OHS management practices in the industry and forms of organizational commitment – affective, normative, and continuance.
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Educational aspirations expressed by society are important resource and factor in the 21st century economy. The main aim of present paper is evaluating of educational behaviours and aspirations in Polish society. For the purpose analysis, reports prepared by CBOS (Public Opinion Research Centre) for period 2010–2017, results of own research and statistical data from GUS (Central Statistical Office of Poland) for period 2010–2016 were referred to. In results can see that Polish people are inclined to believe that education plays a crucial role in every-day and social life.
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