Bimonthly "Human Resource Management" (HRM)
Table of Contents - 1/2007 (english version)
From the Editor - Stanisława Borkowska
ARTICLES
Ireneusz Bielski Human Resources in an Innovative Company
This article concentrates on the role of human resources in an innovation business-a company that can be perceived as a one that sees changes in the environment and treats them as opportunities while utilizing innovation as a primary instrument for competing on the market. Human resources have been identified as a source of innovation as has the strong connection between HRM and a company's market strategy. Various placements of two groups of innovators--managers and creators-within the company structure have been presented. Also depicted are principles of building and implementing motivational systems.
Marzena Syper
Modeling an Innovative Climate in the Company: A Key to Success
Organizational climate as the backdrop that forms the environment for human activities in a company as well as an almost tangible surface of the ruling culture is an important factor responsible for the organization's efficiency. Just as the whole culture can foster the achievement of a company's targets, so too it can also be a destructive factor hampering effectiveness. Modeling an innovative climate that supports employee self-reliance and responsibility is becoming a vital problem facing the modern manager.
The article examines the issues of stimulating an innovational climate in a company, something favored by a developed horizontal organizational structure that is free of formalism and allows both innovation and its related risk. In such a climate, the overriding value is a creative approach to problems being solved as well as employee creativity in its broadest sense.
Piotr Niedzielski, Katarzyna Rychlik
Creativity and the Development of Information
Technology: New Areas of Innovation
A look at the sphere of innovation has been changing in step with the history of economic development and continues to undergo certain transformations in adapting to the appearance of conditions dictated by the surroundings. In line with the principles of development of an information society, new areas of innovation are making their appearance--those connected with tele-information technology and realms of a less tangible dimension linked with ways of thinking, processing information, and creating new solutions in a creative manner. They delimit the current directions of social and economic development. They both have a direct impact on innovativeness. There can be no argument that the development of creativity and information technology mutually act upon each other in a certain range. Thus, it is possible to put forward the hypothesis that their joint influence on growth in innovation will be greater than in the case of the unintegrated action of these factors. Much speaks in support if this. Thus, it is important to consider if the development of information technology and creativity in the never-ending race to success should not be tied together more strongly.
LEADERS' FORUM
Innovation as an Answer to Change [The BPH Bank] Katarzyna Niezgoda
An Interview with Jarosław Michalak, Director of Personnel Services at Michelin Polska - The Editorial Staff
Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP) Activites in Support of the
Implementation of State Innovative Policy Dariusz Szymańczak
COMMUNIQUES
Dorota Molek-Winiarska Stress in Innovative Processes: Source, Effects,
and Reduction
Modern organizations conduct active campaigns fostering high quality of work and the good psychological-physical condition of their workers. This is tied with the high level of knowledge on the psychological costs incurred by workers during the implementation of change. One of the negative phenomena occurring in processes of implementing innovation in a company is stress. The author presents the results of studies conducted on a sample of 151 persons--employees of companies implementing integrated information systems that are an example of change that is significant in both depth and breadth.
PORTFOLIO OF METHODS AND TOOLS
Bożena Jaskowska The Invisible Web: What Are the Benefits for Scientists
and Practitioners?
The presented text is a compendium of knowledge in the area of searching the Internet for valuable and free scientific information. It characterizes the specific resources of the Invisible Web and provides an overview of examples (primarily English language ones) of tools for browsing that make possible access to the full texts of scientific articles: articles from journals, conference papers, research reports, as well as books and their excerpts. The resources of the Invisible Web are presented in three groups: data bases and scientific repositories, www catalogue pages, and specialized search engines. The article is concluded with a brief characterization of Polish language electronic resources that are useful in the quest for accessible scientific information in the area of the economic sciences.
REVIEWS. DISCUSSIONS
Juchnowicz M, Sienkiewicz Ł., How to assess work: The value of positions and competencies - Kazimierz Makowski.
FROM THE EDITOR'S SHOWCASE
Innovation - Ewa Wyglądała
CHRONICLE. INFORMATION
Worker Stance Conference [NF] - The Editorial Staff
Announcement of the winners of the 8th edition of the Best Master's and Doctoral Theses in the Field of Labor and Social Policy Competition - Bożena Kołaczek
XIII edition of the Young for Themselves - Irena Stangreciuk
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