Monika Rutkowska -The "New Career" and Its Exemplifications in the Form of Protean and Boundaryless Careers
The aim of this paper is to present the concepts of the protean career and the boundaryless career as well as of hybrid career profiles that are the outcome of a combination of specific dimensions of the protean and boundaryless career. It is also an attempt to answer the question: Are the mentioned career concepts merely an "academic creation" and futuristic vision or can their usefulness be confirmed through the career description of people living today?

Marzena Świgoń - Personal Knowledge Management as Employability Support
The objective of this paper is to describe the relationship between personal knowledge management and employability. Both concepts are connected with a new model of the professional career-the knowledge-based career.

Piotr Jedynak - The Role of Employee Retirement Programs in Motivational Processes
This article undertakes a discussion on the potential and conditions for using employee retirement programs in the motivation process.

Małgorzata Grabus and Jolanta Zasadzka - Organizational Aspects of Excessive Work
This article’s goal is to analyze the phenomenon of excessive work from the point of view of the organization. It presents behavioral types whose common denominator is the position taken on time devoted to work as well as the delimiting of benefits and threats resulting from defined behavior as faced by the organization.

Magdalena Syguła - Diversity Management as an Element of Human Resource Management Improvement
The intention of this study is to present the phenomenon of diversity management as well as to learn its aspects as they function in modern organizations, using five prosperous and developing, contemporary companies as examples that have implemented this model of management.

Tomasz Ingram - Relations between Recruitment and Selection Policies and Organizational Effectiveness: Empirical Research Results
Employing a contingency approach, this paper investigates the dependence between recruitment and selection policies and organizational effectiveness in the context of employee turnover and absenteeism. The built research model was tested on the basis of empirical studies conducted on 122 Polish organizations.

Benedykt Puczkowski - Communications and Knowledge as Development Factors of Companies of the Future Utilizing European Union Subsidies
The objective of this study is to demonstrate the behavior of Polish companies in the area of implementing innovative knowledge following receipt of European Union support. Research has shown that implementing these resources necessitates an entrepreneurial management approach and the proper organization of the human factor.

Sławomir Zapłata - The Impact of Personal Factors on the Effectiveness of Quality Management System: Questionnaire Results
This article presents factors influencing the effectiveness of the quality management system. On the basis of topical literature, the author has identified five groups of internal factors-human, supplier, customer, resource, and organizational. The relationship between these groups of factors as well as conclusions are presented on the basis of questionnaire-based research conducted among 164 Polish construction companies, holders of ISO 9001:2000 quality management system certification.

Piotr Zabłocki - Knowledge Worker Teams: A Specification
Knowledge worker teams are a relatively new form of teamwork. This type of team is a challenge to HRM specialists. It involves learning the specifics of such teams as well as developing sets of worker competencies that come together in a special way to compose the specifics of knowledge worker teams. The article investigates these questions.

Adriana Paliwoda-Matolańska (2009), Odpowiedzialność społeczna w procesie zarządzania przedsiębiorstwem [Social responsibility in the process of company management] - Piotr Bohdziewicz
Marta Juchnowicz, Editor (2009), Postawy Polaków wobec pracy w zarządzaniu kapitałem ludzkim [Human resource management: The stance of Poles with respect to work] - Janusz Strużyna

A selection of the newest literature in the field of HRM - Alina Kulesa

"Support for Development and Adaptation in Lower Silesia" Research Project - Editorial Staff The 11th edition of the Human Resource Management Leader Competition - Editorial Staff
"From Commitment to Results" - Summing up the 4th edition of the Worker Stance Project - Małgorzata Stepień
Yearly session of Program Council and Editorial Staff of "HRM" bimonthly - Editorial Staff