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Równowaga praca – życie widziana oczami pracowników

Author(s): Katarzyna Hildt-Ciupińska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 04/2017

Today we live very quickly. Thanks to many advanced technologies, we can almost constantly be at work. In these circumstances, the most important challenge is to find an optimal balance between work and life (family, home, private life). A work–life balance is nowadays a topic of many scientific papers, social debates and discussions. This popularity of the subject is triggered by the lack of work–life balance among the workforce. This paper presents the results of a survey on the perception of the work–life balance by employees and recommendations on how those two domains of our lives can be reconciled.

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Using Risk Simulation to Reduce the Capital Cost Requirement for a Programme of Capital Projects

Author(s): Francois Joubert,Leon Pretorius / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

This paper combines various concepts related to (i) project risk management, (ii) Monte Carlo simulation, (iii) project contingency cost estimation, and (iv) the relationship between project and programme risks, to illustrate that the contingency requirements are lower when simulating all the risks in the programme when comparing it with the individual project contingency requirement. A case study organisation provided 86 quantified risk registers related to port and rail capital projects. For each of these risk registers, the project contingency was estimated using a prescribed risk register template and Monte Carlo simulation software. The same 86 quantified risk registers were then used to simulate the programme contingency. The simulation results indicated that the programme contingency requirement was approximately 8% points lower than that of the sum of the individual projects. The first implication of this research result is that, should borrowed capital be used to fund the projects, the interest bill would be higher when calculating project contingency on a project-by-project basis. The second is that regularly appearing low probability, high impact risks, should be identified and these risks should be quantified not in the projects themselves, but in a centrally managed, programme cost contingency fund.

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Proces przewozu zwierząt żywych w transporcie lotniczym

Author(s): Kamil Pacek,Aleksandra Górecka / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

This paper is to investigate the process of handling live animals in air transport. It consists of information about the market of live animals in transport and regulations. There is a strong need for time minimisation when shipping live animals. Due to this fact the detailed procedures must be implemented by the handling companies to fulfill this requirement. As the main part, the ground handling process and shipment is presented. The hypothesis claims that live animals transport regulations are strict enough to ensure safe transport regulations and the only cause of the mistakes in the process can be human error. Authors describe each part of the process, characterize the critical points and confirms this hypothesis.

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Organizacja zwinna – wyznaczniki oraz kierunki strategii prowadzące do zwinności przedsiębiorstwa

Author(s): Andrzej Olak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The uncertainty and turbulences of market surroundings, globalization, developing linkages among companies and market instability entail tough challenge for contemporary organizations. In order to survive they must evolve their behaviors and competencies, strengthen strategic abilities as well as develop the lightning reaction to market signals. Hence, they need to develop agility indicators. These indicators become of key importance as the company intends to achieve market success.The author brings up issues of the agility, its indicators and the strategies which can lead to achieving agile enterprise, since this issue has not been widely discussed in the Polish literature on the subject. The goal of the article is to get these issues across and therefore it has been based on the literature published internationally. Analysis of these sources allows for specification of agility indicators, such as speed and flexibility, emphasizing that they should be linked together. The author of the presented article is reaching a conclusion, that agility can be attained by two interconnected strategies: exploiting the agility in order to achieve the competitive edge and integration of the organization, people and technology.

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Badanie instytucji: dylematy, metody, doświadczenia

Author(s): Monika Krakowiak-Drzewiecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2017

The paper is an opinion on the academic discussion concerning research on institutions. Its purpose is to describe the complexity of the categories of institutions and the consequences this has on research. The article is divided into three main parts. The first part presents the problem of conceptualizing the category of institution. The second part focuses on the methodical basis of measuring institutions. The third part presents examples of empirical research in this field.

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Organizacyjna kultura coachingowa. W kierunku nowych wyzwań

Author(s): Joanna Szafran / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2016

Coaching is commonly assumed to mean a special form of relations that is based on the processes of learning, motivation, dialogue and support thereby facilitating the development of the organization. Modern organizations face adaptation challenges resulting on the one hand from changeable circumstances inside the organization and on the other (or rather primarily) from the attitudes of managers. Operating in an efficient manner and dealing with unpredictable situations requires new skills. They include a holistic approach to the system, the climate of mutual trust that results from personal development, enhanced consciousness, development of one’s own potential and replacing fear with the faith in people. This is one of the subjects addressed in this paper.

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Rozumienie cechą inteligentnego przedsiębiorstwa

Author(s): Tadeusz Falencikowski,Katarzyna Habecka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The article raised the essence of the concept of “understanding” in the context of intelligent enterprise. Carried out theoretical and empirical research led to the emergence of understanding of internal and external. Understanding internal intelligent enterprise applies spheres: employees and for all-sized enterprise. While understanding the external environment it is aimed at and the need to adapt the company.

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Rozumienie podstawą inteligentnego przedsiębiorstwa

Author(s): Tadeusz Falencikowski,Paweł Latzke / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

This article attempts exposure enterprise concept of intelligent and specify its characteristics. It identified three key features of the intelligent enterprise: learning, association and understanding. Detailed studies were characteristic of understanding. For this purpose, based on the results of empirical research conducted among students of the Faculty of Management and Economics Gdańsk University of Technology. Improving this feature enables enterprises to intelligently maintain a competitive edge.

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Badanie dojrzałości procesów zarządzania jakością w przedsiębiorstwach produkcyjnych

Author(s): Mirosław Hamrol,Marta Grabowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

This article presents an original concept of quality management processes maturity assessment. There were used methods including case studies, observations and analysis of data using the evaluation sheet. Evaluation sheet has been developed and case studies conducted for the dissertation and used to verify the assumptions authorial methodology for diagnosing management processes based on quality cost analysis.

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Basis for innovative transformation of Polish universities – background and selected solutions

Author(s): Piotr Grudowski,Kajetan Lewandowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The article presents the background of the current pro-innovation and pro-quality transformation suggested in Polish universities. The first part contains a concise description of Polish higher education system. In the second part, an example of an internal quality assurance system was presented, which was implemented in the Gdańsk University of Technology.The summary indicates recommendations resulting from previous negative experiences related to the implementation of such solutions.

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Wspomaganie zarządzania jakością w przedsiębiorstwie na przykładzie spółki spin-off Argevide

Author(s): Kamil Brodnicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2016

The article presents the support system of quality management in the enterprise. It shows the essence of the functioning of the spin-off and describes one of the companies, which was founded at the Gdańsk University of Technology. In our case study highlights the areas of support to achieve and evaluate compliance with the norms and standards.

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Projektowanie zagregowanych KPI jako metoda implementacji procesów decyzyjnych w zarządzaniu Smart Cities

Author(s): Cezary Orłowski,Tomasz Sitek,Artur Ziółkowski,Paweł Kapłański,Aleksander Orłowski,Witold Pokrzywnicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2_3/2015

The aim of the paper is to present a concept of measuring the performance of city management processes by use of a concept of aggregate KPIs. In the management of organizations and, as a consequence of the use of a common design framework also in the management of cities, silo KPIs are commonly used to show the statuses of the processes of organizations/cities. Thus the question arises as to what extent aggregate KPIs, as proposed in the paper, can be used in the management processes of smart cities in place of the silo ones typical for organizations. The work is divided into four main parts. The first presents the problems of managing smart cities to introduce the reader to the problems of measuring processes and t he need for aggregated measurements. The second section discusses KPIs and their place and role in management processes. The third part contains a description of the model of aggregate KPIs to support measurements of the status of city processes. In the fourth section the developed model is verified, demonstrating its applicability for city management processes. The summary includes a recommendation for the use of aggregate KPIs in the city.

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Metoda projektowania systemów Smart Cities bazowana na Case Based Reasoning

Author(s): Aleksander Orłowski,Cezary Orłowski,Tomasz Sitek,Artur Ziółkowski,Paweł Kapłański,Witold Pokrzywnicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2_3/2015

The objective of this paper is to present the results of research carried out to develop a design method for Smart Cities systems. The method is based on the analysisof design cases of Smart Cities systems in cities, the selection of the city appropriate tothe requirements for implementation and application. The Case Based Reasoningmethod was used to develop the proposed design methodology, along with mechanismsof the conversion of project processes and roles to Rational Unified Processes (RUP).The prerequisite for the proposed method is that the enterprise manager must beknowledgeable about high-level Smart Cities system architecture and the designframework applied. The authors, being themselves knowledgeable about architecture ofthis kind and about project environments which implement KPI models, propose a generic solution applicable to any environments and system architectures

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Model szyny integracyjnej danych i ontologii procesów Smart Cities

Author(s): Cezary Orłowski,Tomasz Sitek,Artur Ziółkowski,Paweł Kapłański,Aleksander Orłowski,Witold Pokrzywnicki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2_3/2015

This paper presents a model of an integration bus used in the design of Smart Cities system architectures. The model of such a bus becomes necessary when designing high-level architectures, within which the silo processes of the organization should be seen from the perspective of its ontology. For such a bus to be used by any city, a generic solution was proposed which can be implemented as a whole or in part depending on the requirements posed by those cities with respect to the construction of such buses. The work is divided into four main parts. The first part presents a model of high-level architectural design processes, using ontologies and a data integration bus, which constitutes the generalized experiences of the authors drawn from the design processes of Smart Cities systems. The second part contains a description of the environment in which Smart Cities systems are developed, illustrated with two guidelines and the implementation processes of these guidelines. In the third part, two components of that environment are identified: the data integration bus and the ontologies of city processes. This is done to demonstrate how Smart Cities systems are designed and to show the processes of the permeation of data and the ontologies of city processes in the creation of a high-level architecture. The fourth section contains a description of how the proposed model is applied in the construction of a common integration bus for data and ontologies. The paper summary presents recommendations concerning the applicability of the proposed model.

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Mityczna tożsamość – o kształtowaniu wizerunku nowoczesnych firm

Author(s): Witold Marzęda / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1-2/2015

Paper describes problems of sender’s images in online verbal presentations of companies, especially their rhetorical--stylistic structure and ideology that is inscribed in it. Author tries to evolve the strategy of critical reading that starts with a simple question who said that? Effacement of this basic information lead to confusion of critical reader. What companies do while telling stories about themselves is creating their quasi-personal identity in performative acts of speech. Prime function of this performatives is to suggest that company can take the roles characteristic to the human beings. Corporations therefore in their tales pretend to be helpful, careful, trustful etc. Description of this roles is amplified by typical recurred adjectives like undisputed, reliable, deep etc. Besides this adjectives there is characteristic set of superlatives usually connected with nouns that make phrases like best quality, absolute/wonderful services, etc. The consequence of this mechanization of language was described by Roland Barthes as transition between content and form and a theft of speech. This transitions according to Barthes is typical for myths. That is why the next stage of the paper concerns Habermas mythical images of the world and their structure. Author shows that structural strategies of creating mythical images like unification of the language, reification, confusing the categories of person and the forces nature are fit to the online presentation of companies and their ideology. Indicated strategies are aimed at hiding the economic motivation of corporations and trying to ascribe employee to enthusiasm for work that is independent of economical motives.

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Założenia koncepcji New Public Management

Author(s): Ewelina Młodzik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 11/2015

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to present the New Public Management concept. Design/methodology/approach – This article reviews literature sources that take up the New Public Management issues. Findings – Following a review of the available literature on the subject in the conditions of development were indicated and variations of the main demands of the concept of the New Public Management. Originality/value – The characteristics of the New Public Management presented in the article is the systematization of knowledge in the field of the problem.

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Humanitas – A project considered as a starting point for thinking about the university in the context of the so-called humanistic management

Author(s): Rafał Maciąg / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

The institutional aspect of the functioning of the university may not be separated from the broader context of science, already reworked and interpreted in the Humanities. The paper proofs that the humanistic management connecting the Humanities and the management is the proper scientific field to recognize and understand this problematics.

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Wpływ incydentu na bezpieczeństwo informacji w zarządzaniu podmiotem

Author(s): Zbigniew Grzywna / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2014

The beginning of the 21st century is the period of the intensive development of the Western Civilization changing from industrial epoch based on industry and resources to informative epoch where most important issues are information and knowledge. Because of the change, there are new problems and threats which have not existed before. In the industrial world, we are afraid of physical threats – fires, thefts and sabotage. In the world of information, virtual threats must be added as well. Various occurrences where rules of management are not observed can lead to critical situation or crisis and as a result can ruin a particular subject. What is more, computer-related occurrences must also be mentioned. Different occurrences and information security incidents will be taken into consideration in the article, such as serious threats which can cause crisis in organization if suitable management mechanism was not prepared.

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Wpływ ekologizacji konsumpcji na zmiany w zarządzaniu organizacjami

Author(s): Dariusz Kiełczewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 6/2015

An aim of considerations is to indicate the changes in organisation management taking place under the impact of ecologisation of consumption. The research was based on a review of literature. Enterprises, the public sector and NGOs under the impact of consumers more and more often change their attitude towards the environment and are more involved in its protection. This contributes to acceleration of implementation of the processes of sustainable development. The article is of the conceptual nature.

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Testing for strategy-structure fit and its importance for performance

Author(s): Sanda Rašić Jelavić,Ana Aleksić / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Understanding different organizational elements, their mutual influence and creating congruence among them has been recognized as an important determinant of organizational performance. These complex interrelationships, and necessity of creating a fit between them, raises the question of how to align different organizational elements to contribute to overall organizational performance. In that sense, this paper addresses the issue of fit and, more specifically, analyses the presence and influence of strategy-structure fit on organizational performance. By using Miles and Snow typology, our goal was to capture and determine the pattern of relationships between strategy, structure, and strategy implementation processes and their influence on organizational performance. This paper presents results of a cross-sectional field research on a sample of 113 organizations in order to gain a better understanding of strategy structure fit and its relation to performance. Results reinforce the existing literature and confirm the importance of fit among strategy, structure and strategy implementation process for higher levels of organizational performance.

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