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Table of Contents - 1/2004 (english version)

From the Editor - Stanisława Borkowska

ARTICLES

Magdalena Andrałojć  The Cultural Factor in HRM - Intercultural Studies

A researcher setting off on studies on intercultural subjects faces the problem of choosing an appropriate research method. The presented article is an attempt at finding such a method, one that combines the etic and emic approaches in studies on culture.

Maciej Ławrynowicz The Resource Aspects of HRM in Light of Competitive Advantage and Company Results

The creation and maintaining of a competitive advantage by a company is possible through actions in the sphere of human resources. The resource-based view of a company, with special stress on a human resource-based view, helps in explaining the role of human resources in gaining the advantage and achieving better results than the competition. The article present various types of models of the influence of HRM on company activity.

The present state of the human resource development system in Lithuania and other Baltic countries, as well as the major problems facing the labor market and the educational system, are what are analyzed. Results of SWOT analyses of the labor market and of educational system development in Lithuania and other Baltic countries (especially the system of university studies) are described. The potential for upgrading university studies is evaluated, taking into account processes associated with integration into the European Union. Moreover, the prospects of educational development are analyzed in the context of transition characteristics of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

A PORTFOLIO OF METHODS AND TOOLS

Stanisław Chełpa   Strategies for Research into Managerial Qualifications

This article presents three possible strategies for examining the qualifications of the managerial staff-the idiographic, nomotetic, and idiotetic approaches. Each of these strategies is linked with both limitations and errors caused by the researcher. An awareness of this may mark the start of methodological correctness for planned studies. Moreover, possible directions for exploration in connection with decisions regarding choice of the subject of research interest are signaled.

This article consists of a proposal for an approach to the analysis and description of organizational culture in categories of a dynamic model that shows the processes taking place among its components. In this model, the individual levels of organizational culture are tied to the processes taking place within them that transform its elements. An examination of the character of these processes may prove helpful in reaching the unseen premises behind organizational culture and an understanding of the character of changes occurring in it. The article include a proposal for a research methodology encompassing processes taking place in organizational culture.

Employee recruitment is, to the certain extent, an exchange of information. Probation is a selection method used to verify a candidate's skills. Probation is used as a recruitment tool after the application of other methods-i.e. the job interview. This paper describes probation as a method of verification of employee skills for positions such as salesperson and cashier in the divisions of a trading company. Research results show that this method is properly conducted in the investigated company, but both the company and employees made certain mistakes.

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