Polish Journal of Management Studies

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Authors: Larisa Dragolea, Moise I. Achim, Lucia Căbulea, Maria Popa

We are living in a society in which services are characterized by great expansion, mobility and adaptability to market requirements. The purpose of this article is to present the necessity of adapting educational services, namely those in the sphere of higher education, to the labour market and in particular the manner in which the requirements of the labour market are currently well understood and fulfilled by universities. The most accessible and effective way to start the process of correlating students` skills with market requirements is to facilitate internships for students at the employers. This research has been carried out among the students in the fields of economics at the „1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, following the completion of their last internship (July 2013) and among the economic operators, partners in the completion of internships.

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Authors: Izabela Olton

The issue of work-life balance (WLB) refers to the inability to reconcile duties at work with family obligations as both environments put evident pressure on a person. This leads to imbalance which is a source of personal stress and low productivity. Hence, one cannot hide the fact that the effects of this imbalance can be very burdensome in financial and strictly organizational terms and for workers themselves. The aim of this paper is to propose a systemic solution in the organization so that employees can reconcile work and private life favourably.

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Authors: Romuald Szopa, Piotr Halemba

The purpose of this article was an analysis of changes occurring in choice of degree courses on the example of Academy of Physical Education in Katowice. Author focuses also on causes which induce young people to the aspiration for having a higher education and presents primary benefits resulting from having it. Next, he presents the current situation of people with higher education on labor market and finally checks whether preferences of students concerning directions and modes of studies are changing also in relation to the changing situation on market.

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Authors: Aleksandra Ptak

For years, companies cooperate with universities in many ways. Both derive benefits from it. Such cooperation gives higher education institutions the possibility of increasing the scientific and didactic potential. The effects of the widely understood cooperation give companies the opportunity to gain competitive advantage and increase the share of knowledge in the creation of enterprise value. According to decisions of the European Council in the near future cooperation between business and universities should remain one of the high priority actions.7

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Authors: Sorin Mihai Radu , Aronel Matei, Teodora Mititica, Nadia Ionitescu

To study the evolution of the temperature of the stock of coal depending on its storage period, the used method in managing the coal storages is the use of infrared thermography. Infrared thermography allows for the temperatures to be remotely measured (from centimetres to a hundreds of meters) and without direct contact, which is indispensable, for example considering electrical equipment found under tension or in the case of parts or materials with increased temperature or which are inaccessible. The evolution of the measured temperature took into account the following steps: the initiation and appearance of temperature areas, the development phase of the temperature areas and the phase during which the increased temperature cores appear. The evolution of the temperature on steps is presented in data and in graphical mode. After the measurements the entire coal quantity which was analysed was sent to be consumed.

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Authors: Tadeusz Głowacki

Motivation is inseparable from human work. It is also one of the five most important elements of the management process. The ability to determine the level of motivation would therefore be very useful in the work of every manager. This paper is an attempt to quantify motivation and evaluate its size, using the concept of entropy. The main reason to try defining a method of measuring the amount of motivation is to improve the management techniques of companies.

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Authors: Sorin M. Radu, Mariana Man

During the history, the engineering profession was practiced by people selected from the elite of young scholars, the qualification obtained during long years of high level education. Nowadays, thousands of engineers, sociologists, teachers and others are devoted to find out the good practice to educate the new kind of engineers, able to face the new problems emerging in the society.

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Authors: Leonina-Emilia Suciu, Maria Mortan, Patricia Raţiu, Vincenţiu Vereş

The paper presents how recruitment is done in the local public administration from Romania and Belgium (The Brussels Region) since this is one of the first steps an individual has to make in order to become a public servant and stat a career in local public administration. The paper aims to show what the common points are when referring to the recruitment in the local public service in both countries.

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Authors: Marek Szajt

Article takes up the issues of education, especially at a tertiary level - of up-skilling of workers in Poland. The other countries in the European Union and countries associated with it as a point of reference was adopted. The aim of this study is to assess the accuracy of the changes in Poland in relation to educational policy, which translates directly to the attractiveness of the Polish labor market. The study was based on information from Eurostat and national publications. Spatial – historical analyses were used as a basic research and forecasting tool.

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Authors: Helena Kościelniak

Processes constitute an inseparable element of the technical, social or organizational system. Moreover, they show the dynamics of the organization and they are subordinated to its goals; they actuate the organizational reality and they enable the cause and effect analysis of the changes taking place in the organization and its constituent elements. The aim of the paper is the multidimensional assessment of management of sales profitability of manufacturing companies using ERP systems; in the paper there are presented the images (windows) - of the evaluation of the enterprise performance; their exemplification was given to the enterprise under research. The collected and ordered information satisfy the information needs of decision-makers at the level ensuring methodological rationality of the decision.

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Authors: Katarzyna Grondys, Iga Kott, Anna Wiśniewska-Sałek

The motivation to take up the subject is a direct link between the stock of spare parts and the system of production capacity. The relationships which exist between the entities, referring to entrepreneurship, constitute a chance for the improvement of the functioning of the enterprise from the executive point of view. The development, which takes place in the area of minimization of stocks using logistics centers, constitutes the source of professional and individual development of people participating in the entrepreneurship process. In the assessment of the entrepreneurship of the entities, the effects of the disturbances may be observed in long, unplanned downtime of the machines and equipment or excessive costs of the maintenance of spare parts stocks. To make this relationship sustainable, it is necessary to search for modern approaches and behavior, which, simultaneously, will allow to reduce the costs of freezing capital and the risk connected with the necessity of possessing them when they are needed. One of solutions of the problem, presented in the paper, is the concept of sharing spare parts stock by a few industrial enterprises using the logistics center, treated as a new entrepreneurial approach, which reflects the process of self-development of the company as well as its employees. The applied concept allows to develop a number of financial and organizational benefits for the users of spare parts, the condition of which is the willingness for cooperation and communication, based on properly adjusted IT system.

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Authors: Beata Ślusarczyk, Robert Golnik

The article is devoted to recruitment and human resources approach to transnational corporations. Factors like: employee ability, education, skills, experience, behaviours, personality traits and motivations influencing the company’s prosperity. That’s why recruiting process is so important to pick appropriate candidate from the market and bring to company some extra value through this actions. The theoretical approach to this problem has been complemented by a case study of corporations that are among the so-called "Big Four" involved in the advisory industry and nowadays regarded as the most prestigious place for work.

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Authors: Michaela Sirková, Viktória Ali Taha, Martina Ferencová

In dynamically and unpredictably changing environment becomes creativity a key factor of the success of businesses and organizations because it affects the development of innovation and ingenuity, and consequently the business success and profit. The paper analyses the creativity of employees at work. Primary data collection was conducted through questionnaire survey among employees (mostly managers) working in Prešov region. The research was conducted on a sample of 118 respondents from Prešov district in Slovakia. To evaluate the data and hypotheses was used statistical program STATISTIC using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r).

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Authors: Emilia Vasile, Iwona Grabara

Rural development and, implicitly, raising the standard of living of the village inhabitants are not possible without modernizing the agricultural production which can be achieved by putting into practice the results of scientific research as well as providing a feedback to common agricultural policies. Enhanced crops of high quality and low costs are the markers of the activity in agricultural exploitations showing the profitability and competitiveness of those in the market economy. Under such circumstances, the agricultural producer also needs, beside the material means, the financial ones; therefore, combining the knowledge adequate to the technological and economic management is necessary.

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Authors: Arnold Pabian, Barbara Pabian

Sustainable enterprise management is a young, only just developing field of knowledge, being a branch of sustainable science. It emerged to meet the global need to protect the Earth, on which enterprises are located and operate. Sustainable management is a response to the deteriorating health of our planet. Growing ecological and social problems have led to a high degree of unsustainability of economies and environments in which most enterprises operate despite sustainable development efforts made for many years. It is a threat to the existence of future generations. Sustainable management makes it possible to reverse the detrimental tendencies because it aims not only to achieve economic but also ecological and social goals. In order for sustainable management to be used in enterprises, planning, organizing, leading and controlling have to be adjusted to its needs. These functions are the essence of managerial work and they determine the results of the enterprise activity. In the field of sustainable management they adopt the form of sustainable planning, sustainable organizing, sustainable leading and sustainable controlling. Sustainable management used in millions of enterprises all over the world would undoubtedly contribute to the balance of intergenerational needs, being the evidence of wisdom and responsibility of present day managers.

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Authors: Ludmiła Walaszczyk

The article provides the results of the practical application of evaluation methodology in the Development of Innovative Systems of Manufacturing and Maintenance 2004-2008 (PW-004) multiyear strategic research programme in the area of technical solutions. Findings from this study indicate the evaluation criteria and methods used at different stages and levels of evaluation – project, thematic area and the entire programme levels. The author indicates the importance of the evaluation process, which contributed to the achievement of the practical results in the programme. However, the author also underlines shortcomings of the methodology and identifies additional elements needed to make the evaluation methodology complex.

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Authors: Witold Chmielarz

The aim of this article is to analyse the quality of selected commercial content distribution platforms in Poland at the beginning of 2014. The analysis was performed with the method of random sampling and produced objective results of assessment of the investigated services. In part one of the chapter I will formulate the aim and the objectives of the study. Consequently, I will perform a comparative analysis according to the selected criteria. The final part of the chapter contains conclusions drawn from the study.

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Authors: Kutanis Rana Özen, Ardıç Kadir, Uslu Osman, Karakiraz Ahmet

In this study it is aimed to point out the interrelationships between emotional intelligence, trust to manager and fear based silence from the point of employees. A sample of 157 health personnel from different professions working in a dental clinic was included to the research. According to findings, there is a positive and significant relationship between employees’ emotional intelligence and their trust to manager. Also the negative insignificant relationship between emotional intelligence and fear based silence and the positive insignificant relationship between employees’ trust to manager and fear based silence were found. At the end of the study suggestions are made to the practitioners and future researchers. A part of this study was presented in 3 rd Multidisciplinary Academic Conference in Prague 2014.

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Authors: Wioletta Sołtysiak

Purpose of this article is to analyze carriers and internship office, within a context of business behaviors among students and graduates. This work encompasses: a definition of academic business, institutional forms of students’ entrepreneurship creation, chosen results of empirical research of professional activity among students and efforts of carrier and internship office at Jan Długosz University (AJD) in Czestochowa. The research was based on a method of personal interview and on analysis of carrier office reports. Afterwards, wide-ranging analysis was conducted, and within a context of this analysis there was a description of operations which strengthened professional activity of students and graduates.

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Authors: Ramin Bashir Khodaparasti

Capital and capital markets are important role in any economy. Therefore in this study the role and impact of macro variables in the Iranian stock market is given in. Since the stock market in any country is one of the most important indicators that highlight the economic situation, as important variables in this market analysis is required. In Iran several years ago by the approval and implementation of principle 44 of the constitution of the country's stock market has altered the essential and most state-owned companies were sold. Thus the results of this work can be used for the principle of privatization. Macroeconomic variables used in this work are: inflation, exchange, volume of liquidity in the private sector and index of industrial production. By analyze of variance method, this experimental study actually examines the oscillation in the stock market as oscillations that exist in these four variables between 2007- 2011. Outcome of this analysis shows that the exchange rate and industrial index have more effect on the stock market than inflation and M1.

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Authors: Celina M. Olszak

The paper reviews and critiques current research on Business Intelligence (BI) in cloud. This review highlights that organizations face various challenges using BI cloud. The research objectives for this study are a conceptualization of the BI cloud issue, as well as an investigation of some benefits and risks from BI cloud. The study was based mainly on a critical analysis of literature and some reports on BI cloud using. The results of this research can be used by IT and business leaders as they plan and develop BI cloud in their organizations.

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Authors: Stanisław Stanek, Jacek Namysło

The article aims to analyze innovative solutions in the areas of virtualization and video communication within economic and social processes. Some general trends in computer-mediated communication have been identified. Our findings that confirm these trends relate to telework and new challenges in supporting religious practices. We see trends emerging that create entirely new opportunities to boost the efficiency of decision making and management processes in organizations and to support all kinds of social processes.

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Authors: Ioan C. Dima, Janusz Grabara, Stefan Vlăduțescu

Using the online learning platform provides a dynamic training program at substantially reduced costs compared with the conventional systems. They ensure the development of a scalable products, secure online access to thousands of students even for distance learning, offering them the books available online, multimedia support, etc. Outside the curriculum it was developed a flexible verification and scoring system, uploading projects, maintaining a permanent online contact between students on the one side and between students and lecturers on the other side. In the online lessons there may be audio or video links between students and lecturer, when the session administrator believes that certain aspects need to be developed in this way. Ensuring for a convenient program of resources access may allow students to structure better the learning period.

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Authors: Iwona Grabara

The article presents the results of the carried out analysis concerning the level determination of the use of innovative methods of teaching specialized subjects in preparation for the profession of logistics, and to identify and determine possible changes in the types of teaching methods, used in relation to carried out in this area of research by specialists and experts in the past 15 years. The purpose of this article is to realize that the education system in all schools modes in Poland do not prepare future potential employees to complete a chosen profession, in accordance with the employers expectations and the needs of the present times, or does not predispose to rapid changes in the profession.