Polish Journal of Management Studies

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Authors: Marek Ładyga, Maciej Tkacz

In this paper, a special case of unbalanced model of production and consumption has been explained. The proposed method consists of introducing balance certain ordering relationship in the set of consumers. This method may help decision-makers in the management of essential logistics processes.

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Authors: Piotr Jóźwiak

Crowdsourcing in field of innovation gives various opportunities for companies. They are related to types and different offerings of such initiatives. In this chapter different types of implementation of crowdsourcing web applications are presented. Examples are taken mainly from international perspective. And chapter was prepared with intention of finding ways in which such platforms are implemented for finding potential components for new projects.

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Authors: Izabela Olton

Every manager knows that his subordinates sometimes have good and bad days , and that reasons for such and not another effectiveness are often unknown. Most bosses shrugs his shoulders and pass over this phenomenon on the agenda , because the inner life of a subordinate is anyway largely invisible for the manager. Also, current methods of measurement (effectiveness, efficiency ) focus on measuring competence in relation to a particular employee. However, too strong attachment to the competence assessment of individual employee seems pointless . This is mainly due to the fact that the work of a single employee is not equivalent in time . Its performance is affected by a continued stream of emotions and observations , affecting the overall motivation of the employee. The effectiveness of the employee at any time depends on the combination of these factors caused by the current events at work , including the actions of superiors . In this paper an attempt is made to demonstrate the validity of competence measurement with respect to the team of employees in order to efficiently implement functions of human resource management.

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Authors: Katarzyna Terlicka

In the article one took an attempt to evaluate management of human resources in Częstochowa District Office. In order to analyse this issue properly, the author conducted a survey among the District Office workers. The results presented in the following article show that human resources in the office are managed more effectively and efficiently.

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Authors: Andrzej Brzeziński

This article is an attempt to identify purposes and expectations of employees and the scope of their implementation by employers. Employees are presented as important stakeholders of each enterprise, along with their purposes and expectations, which are benefits for their contribution to the functioning of these organizations. Theoretical considerations on this stakeholder group were compared with the results of empirical research conducted among employees employed in Lower Silesian enterprises. Results of research have showed that financial expectation as satisfying salaries are main employee’s purpose and they are satisfied in majority of enterprises. Employment security, which means choice of employer with an established market position and stable financial situation is also very important for employees.

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Authors: Jaroslava Gburová, Róbert Štefko, Radovan Bačík

The paper deals with price and marketing pricing strategies of retail chain stores in the Slovak Republic. The aim of this paper is to highlight the perception of the impact of economic recession in the retail chain stores. To determine the most used marketing pricing strategies has been used analysis of variance ANOVA. The global finance crisis does not have influence to selection and implementation of pricing strategy, which is used by branches of chain stores marketing management of in area of Presov region .

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Authors: Jerzy Korczak, Piotr Lipiński

This paper concerns organization of the local cloud computing environment at the Wroclaw University of Economics, developed in the framework of the LOGICAL research project. In particular the architecture of the environment, the implementation of main components of the environment are described as well as their references to the global cloud computing environment and the general architecture of the VMWare platform .

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Authors: Stanisław Borkowski, Jacek Zacharski, Karina Kaszyca

In jedem Unternehmen gibt es ein Konfliktpotential. Konflikte im Unternehmen können einen großen Einfluss auf das Unternehmen selbst und die Qualität der Produkte oder Dienstleistungen haben. Das Potential der Konflikte liegt in den Mitarbeitern im Unternehmen selbst und in der Umgebung des Unternehmens. Es gibt verschiedene Arten der Konflikte, die auf sachlichen und emotionalen Ebenen ausgetragen werden. Für Unternehmen ist er förderlich, Strategien, Methoden und Techniken des Umgangs mit Konflikten zu entwickeln und zu implementieren. Bei eskalierten Konflikten empfiehlt es sich, in den Lösungsprozess Mediation sowie Gruppen- und Einzelcoaching zu integrieren, um die Konfliktparteien anzunähern, negative Einstellungen gegenüber Problem und Gegner zu verbessern und vom problemorientierten zum lösungsorientierten Denken zu kommen .

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Authors: Małgorzata Pańkowska, Anna Sołtysik-Piorunkiewicz

Green or environmentally friendly Information Technology (IT) refers to goods and services considered to inflict minimal or no harm to the environment. Enterprise information systems undoubtedly should undertake the burden of facilitating the waste emission and electric power usage reduction by pursuing a low waste supply chain management practice and energy cost-efficient IT. The paper aims to present co-packing enterprise information system case study for support of that thesis.

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Authors: Ennouri Wissem

The complexity of the industrial activities and the important mass of flows crossing the supply chain promotes the emergence of risks that must be considered in the decision process. For this reason, we have developed this paper to clarify the basics of risk management through a short new suggestion of literature review for risk management. Our justification of this attempt is that this area is the most discussed in our days and it is impossible to present all definition of the risk concept, we have tried to collect the most recent studies in this paper.

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Authors: Dana Kiseľáková, Alexander Kiseľák

The main objective of this article is to investigate banking business and analyze factors affecting financial stability of economies and changes in these factors over time using regression model with selected statistical indicators in macroeconomic environment with a focus on Slovakia as member of the Euro area. The method of empirical sector and trend analysis, regression analysis and economic modelling are used. The relationships between the dependence of the banking business profitability and macroeconomic growth have been surveyed and quantified using regression model spanning a period of ten years (2001-2010). Multiple regression model (Mod 1) accurately reflected the real development of the banking business sector in Slovakia. Since these sector variables are not dependent on the Slovak historical context, the model can be readily applied to other central European economies to improve the profitability and stability of financial enterprises against crises. There are found selected market factors affecting banking business that informed the analysis, such as effective liquidity management, quality of balance sheets assets, efficient management of interest policy, and increasing of profitability rate from long-term aspect.

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Authors: Adam Nowicki, Stanisław Stanek, Jacek Namysło

The following article is to outline the o pportunities in the near future that can be ensured by the use of mobile video communication technology in processes related to entrepreneurship. It is also an attempt to prove that such a form of communication , not only will complement the range of tools dedicated for modern business , but already has become an important element for the management of many companies and institutions in Poland . It also has a direct impact on the development of entrepreneurship. At the same time publication indicates the direction in which the changes are likely to proceed in the area of organization management , and how the technologies themselves must evolve to meet the expectations of users . The article has also one practical aspect - shows an example of actual implementation of these solutions provided by one of the producers of the video communication technology in Poland .

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Authors: Róbert Štefko, Sylvia Jenčová, Eva Litavcová

Tourism centered on pilgrimages to religious sites in Slovakia, the target groups being individuals, family, youth seniors, etc., promotes the spiritual, cultural and educational growth of those who partake of it. But, more importantly, this trade in tourism promotes the regional economy in terms of tourism thereby promoting the growth of the whole country. The objective of this paper is to examine pilgrimage sites, highlight their importance with regards to ecumenical, cultural and economic aspects.

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Authors: Mostafa Kazemi, Zakieh Shooshtarian

One of the most areas of research in recent years, is decision making methodologies under conflicting multi-objective. Due to this, several techniques have been developed. Among them, Surrogate Worth Trade – Off (SWT) method is interested to solve the multi-objective problem by analysts and researchers. This paper intends to review and application of Surrogate Worth Trade – Off technique. The SWT method is one approach that provides an interference between the decision maker’s preferences and the mathematical models associated with the non-dominated solutions. In the final part of this work a method is proposed in order to use SWT technique with multiple decision –makers.

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Authors: Elena Širá

This article deals with evaluation of agricultural performance on the market through selected indicators. According to the period 2000 – 2011 or 2012, we analyse, how the development trends in agriculture changed. Firstly we analyse the amount of GDP in agriculture, the number of employees, the average salary and competitiveness in foreign markets. Then we analyse the amount of agricultural production according to each region of Slovakia to show, what the effectiveness of each region is.