Polish Journal of Management Studies

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Authors: Anatoliy G. Goncharuk, Svetlana Karavan

Today, enterprises operate under the fierce competition . So, there is a need of quick reaction on changes in external environment , and improvement of the performance. Constant development is the key to success for any organization . However, this process requires investment - the growth engine for the company. The only way to attract the capital and strengthen market positions is raising the level of the investment appeal. A pproaches determination of the investment attractiveness evaluation, gives a deeper understanding of this economic category, and as a consequence the possibility of effective investment attractiveness management - one of the main tasks for any enterprise.

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Authors: Iulia Iuga, Ionela Cornelia Cioca

Vacancies, unemployment, wage levels and labor costs do not only affect a country's economy by lowering the Gross Domestic Product, but every person’s life. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Gross Domestic Product and unemployment rate in the European countries for the period 2005-2011. To perform the analysis, official data from Eurostat, National Statistical Institute and the National Agency for Employment in Romania were taken. The research objectives are to analyze the two indicators for 27 European countries, including Romania. The indicators obtained by Romania were analyzed and compared to the indicators registered by other countries. The expected results consist of establishing a link between GDP and unemployment rate. This link and the intensity of the link will be established by calculating and analyzing the correlation indicator.

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Authors: Justyna Łukomska-Szarek, Marta Włóka

This publication highlights the considerations of public sector modernization, using the New Public Management reform. Investigations affect difficulties connected with public sector management therefore dilemma of functioning each public sector units. They are focused on reform, primarily New Public Management, which is regarded to be phenomenon of public management. Contents contained below, first of all are aimed at explanation the term public, and then the public management reform, which are permanently connected with problematic aspects this publication. Moreover from this point of view essential significance has area, in which follows development this reform. Whole considerations portraying later, are focused on showing basic concepts of New Public Management, it’s origin, diverse approaches to definition, advantages and disadvantages too. At the end of publication described conclusions which emphasise essence of New Public Management in public sector at the local government level.

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Authors: Arkadiusz Świadek

Industrial systems in countries with a significant technological gap is generally characterized by low competitiveness, manifested, among others, the low share of high technology products in international trade. The aim of the study was to determine the impact of the various phases of the directions of the economic cycle on the behavior of innovative firms with the determination of the strength of this effect. Achieved results confirmed the presence of cyclic of innovative activity in the Pomeranian region. Based on the analysis performed on a group of 680 industrial companies using probit regression can be stated that in the period boom innovative activity occurs much more frequently than in other phases of the business cycle - recession and stagnation. The economic situation is therefore an important and time-varying factor in the decisions of innovative enterprises. On this basis, there is a need for a reference to the current market conditions, the impact of the phenomenon of programming innovation processes in our country.

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Authors: Venera-Mihaela Cojocariu, Maria Puiu

The importance and significance of the career plan is no longer a novelty for the activity of counsellors and career centres. Nevertheless, we are still looking for new concrete and efficient ways of performing such activities with the students. Our intention is that of designing and organizing such activities that may be integrated into a course throughout the entire undergraduate programme. The purpose of our study is twofold: 1. building a proactive attitude towards one’s own professional development; 2. providing the techniques for elaborating a feasible career plan. The theoretical presentation of the integrated AKA model of conducting the career counselling activity by means of the career plan is combined with illustrating certain sequences from this process conducted at the Department of Professional Counselling from “Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău.

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Authors: Michał Adam Leśniewski

La localisation est l’un des facteurs ayant de l’influence sur la formation de la capacité de concurrence. En ce qui concerne l’économie de marché, la localisation peut concourir aussi bien au succès qu’à l’échec d’une enterprise. L’analyse de la capacité de concurrence envisagée sous un aspect de localisation contribue à la formation de la capacité de concurrence de localisation de l’entreprise. Le présent article a pour but de faire connaître aussi bien la théorie de localisation et la théorie de la capacité de concurrence des entreprises que les résultats d’auteur qui procèdent des études menées. La capacité de concurrence de localisation des enterprises constitue la soi-disant capacité simple ou autrement dit capacité monoélément.

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Authors: Wioletta Skibińska

Transportation is one of the main aspect of logistics development in Poland, even if this is due to the fact that the costs for transportation are from 25% to 40% of total costs in the total cost of logistics. This causes that it is transportation, in addition to procurement processes, production, storage and distribution is the most important process within the logistics supply chain. This article on production and transport being the type used in the Polish logistics, presented as in the period 2009-2011 was as its dynamics and development.

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Authors: Ramin Bashir Khodaparasti

The purpose of this study, given the important role of different ways to improve the quality and quantity of public services by using best practices, share resources and ultimately increases efficiency and satisfaction of serving people. Our attempt to be analyzed both profit organizations and non-profits. Any organization at any level, in order to be viable, it should more accurately, and meet customer requirements and customer needs, and take into account their corporate policies. Therefore, in this paper, the model chi-square and a sample of 150 people, consisting of men and women in offices irrigation, municipal finance, and City Hall of Urmia (Iran) were used. The results of this study indicate that staff performance plays a significant role in improving the quality and quantity of services to the people.

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Authors: Marcin Sitek

This study presents the systematic of the types of investment risk in the real estate market and its characteristics. Furthermore, the study compares the risk components with the forms of investing, particularly in terms of real estate market. The comparison of different classifications of risks presented by various authors shows that the two main categories of risk are macroeconomic risk and microeconomic risk. Approaching developers as a typical example of investors in real estate market allowed for presentation of risk factors in investment and construction activities of developers, types of risk, areas of risk control and methods that minimize risk and risk management. It was demonstrated that risk factors are the fundamental elements in the process of risk management in the estate market.

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Authors: Moise Ioan Achim, Larisa Dragolea, Manuella Kadar, Lucia Căbulea

This article illustrates how internships performed by young students during their studies can represent the foundation of their future career's management. Applicative elements that can be found in a SOP HRD project focused on the internship/practical training of students are mentioned; the views of some students who have completed an internship carried out through an European funded project , which gave them the chance to get in contact with the labor market are also given. T he paper contains data regarding the role of this kind of practical training/internship in the management process of personal development and the active life

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Authors: Filimon Stremțan, Denisa Adriana Cotîrlea

In the present paper the authors address the importance of carrying out certain relevant internships by students and, at the same time, the influence that these internships have on the place where Romanian education system is situated on the map of the European competitive education systems. Because the student -perceived as a central section of the future evolution- must develop both in terms of personal and professional features, the authors approached aspects regarding the importance and the advantages brought out by the internships carried out by youths, since these often can represent the starting point for the future career of the graduates. The paper is , overall, a plea for projects co -financed through the European Social Fund and through the SOP HRD for ensuring the existence of public-private partnerships and for facilitating the emerge of first contact of the youth with the labor market. This article provides to readers the opportunity to create a picture regarding the role and importance of such projects in forming a competitive education system and, at the same time, a bright future through the influence exercised over students.

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Authors: Sylvia Jenčová, Eva Litavcová, Róbert Štefko, Daniela Maťovčíková

Municipality’s financing represents a substantial part of borough politics. It results from the fundamental functioning of the municipality. One of the main tasks is not only to raise enough funds to cover and satisfy their needs, but also to guarantee their effective usage and to apply new approaches to multi-source municipality’s financing. The budget of the municipality is closely linked to the state budget and its efficient management on the income site can ease the pressure on the state subsidies funding. The paper deals with the current issues regarding to financing of municipalities of the selected region of Svidník County with its 65 municipalities, yet the results can be applied to all Slovak municipalities. It has been proved that there is the strong link between preferred forms of financing and the view on the deterioration in the availability of financial resources in times of crises.

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Authors: Janusz Grabara

The article presents the survey conducted in the companies, operating at polish market, in different types of sector. All these companies have a marketing and management department and due to today’s polish market condition, they are constantly seeking for new employees. Also, they have some expectations in regards to them, which are, quite often, not fulfilled by the young people. This survey was conducted to show what are the real expectations from the employers and what skills are really needed for work in marketing and management department.

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Authors: Gaurav Chandhiok, Megha Chandhiok

Growing urban agglomeration in almost all the metropolitan cities of the world has been a cause of many socio-economic and developmental problems surfacing in the respective metropolitan cities. Some of these problems have been in the nature of countryside-metropolitan labor migration, traffic congestion, tremendous pressure on resources leading to rapid price rise in essential services (water, domestic gas, electricity and transport), realty sector and other commodities, accentuating divide between the haves and have-nots, imbalanced regional growth and the like. This paper aims to study how effective planning of a transportation infrastructure can create favorable situation to solve all the above problems. The scenario was observed to be similar in different parts of the globe whether it was New York City, USA ; Taiwan, Hong Kong, China; Manchester, UK; New Delhi, India; Tokyo, Japan. In many of these metropolitan cities, the development of an efficient Mass Rapid Transport System (MRTS) has been one of the ways by which the municipal corporation or the city’s governing body has tried to address the problems mentioned above and has been successful to quite an extent. This paper concludes that if in Phase I and II expansion of Delhi Metro Rail network from NCT to NCR region would have been taken then significant reduction in congestion, growing prices, urban agglomeration would have taken place and the development of region peripheral to the NCT would also be possible.

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Authors: Nicolae-George Drăgulănescu

The former socialist/ communist rule kept Romania almost isolated from the Western World during about half a century (1945-1989). All about 7000 Romanian former state-owned companies (which were operational at the end of 1989) were obliged, by Law, starting the years ‘60, to organize their own so-called “CTC (Technical Quality Control) Department”, in order to only inspect the quality of their products. In 1992, two years only after the fall of Ceausescu’s dictatorship, in Romania were published both the first Romanian edition of famous ISO 9001 standard (in 1987, when ISO published its first international issue, the former Romanian regime did not allow the translating of it in Romanian!) and the first Consumer Protection Act in Romania’s history. This paper introduces - from both historical and professional insider’s perspective - the most important facts, challenges, issues and outcomes of these very important events, happened over two decades ago.