Bimonthly "Human Resource Management" (HRM)
Table of Contents - 2/2007 (english version)
From the Editor - Tadeusz Listwan
ARTICLES
Marzena Stor Strategies for Managing Executive Staff in International Organizations
The main goal of the article is to present and discuss some theoretical and empirical research findings on personnel strategies for managing executive staff in international corporations operating in Poland. The paper presents an original concept for a hierarchical model that is the resultant of personnel strategies of international corporations based on theoretical studies. Since this concept was also used in the empirical research, the main conclusions covered in the final part of the article refer to the mentioned model as well.
Sylwia Przytuła Attracting Managers to International Companies in Poland
This article presents survey results involving the manager recruitment practices of international companies operating in Poland. Assuming a triad model, the article depicts manager recruitment forms, selection techniques, and placement methods of companies from the Asian, American, and European cultural sphere. The author also presents the role of cultural factors in staffing key positions in the surveyed companies.
Tomasz Kawka Managerial Staff Compensation in International Companies in Poland
This paper describes new trends and conditions relating to the compensation of managerial staff in the face of globalization. It presents the research results of the "Management of Managerial Staff in International Companies in Poland" project conducted by a team from the HRM Department of the Wrocław School of Economics. The article includes an attempt to provide answers to the following research problems: What are the relations in executive compensation between the head office and branch offices? What are the decision-making powers of entities on the central level and on the level of the investigated company with respect to the shaping of compensation strategy? What is the dominant internal structure of remuneration for managerial staff? Do organizational culture dimensions such as individualism vs. collectivism have an impact on the selection of criteria applied in the distribution of resources for managerial compensation?
Małgorzata Sidor-Rządkowska The Controversy Surrounding Codes of Ethics
Codes of ethics are seen as the most important part of company ethical programs. It is demonstrated that such documents exist in almost every American and a significant portion of European organizations. Nevertheless, this in no way changes the fact that many comments and concerns are voiced with respect to company codes of ethics. This article discusses such concerns and divides them into three main groups. The conclusion is that the codes, if developed properly and treated seriously, play a useful role while simultaneously contributing to overcoming some harmful myths about the business ethics.
LEADERS' FORUM
Małgorzata Gableta, Anna Cierniak-Emerych, and Agata Pietroń-Pyszczek The Role of Masters as Production Managers in International Companies
The growing complexity of processes underway in companies and the related need for shortening the time needed to take decisions puts the managerial staffs of contemporary businesses up against new challenges, including the delegating of rights and responsibilities onto representatives of lower management levels, including masters. This especially pertains to international entities that are characterized by diverse cultural contexts of operations, including in the area of labor subdivision.
Bearing this in mind, this study is an effort at defining changes in tasks accomplished by masters in companies of the automotive industry located in Poland. A case study is presented describing solutions applied in companies with the participation of Japanese capital in order to illustrate transformations in the functioning of the lowest management level. There, special stress is paid to the tasks facing masters involving the motivating of employees within the framework of what is known as the suggestion system.
Jarosław Nowochodzki Selected Human Resource Management Questions in the Bombardier Corporation
Based on the corporate values of the international Bombadier Transportation, the objective of this article is to present selected elements of the human resource management system. This text presents the importance of such values as impeccable honesty, a commitment to excellence, customer orientation, and focus on shareholders. Application of the such organizational standards finds expression in the implementation of such HR solutions as a code of ethics, the six-sigma program, the performance management program, the appraisal system, leaders' succession planning, and employee opinion polls. Such an approach in the described organization results in a continuous process of structural and organizational transformation serving personnel management in the company.
Andrzej Saykiewicz Selection Qualifications, and the Work of Japanese Managers
This article presents questions relating to Japanese managers, their origins and place in history, competencies, including their methods of operation, as well as their work environment. What is stressed is the fact that in Japan, in contrast to the West, management was never in vogue and there were never any management schools.
PORTFOLIO OF METHODS AND TOOLS
Stanisław A. Witkowski and Magdalena Łużniak Styles of Coping with Culture Shock in Global Companies: Methodological Aspects of Cross-Cultural Studies
This article describes selected aspects of planning cross-cultural research through an interdisciplinary approach. The intention of the authors was to describe questions linked with the mutual penetration of theoretical planes stemming from the sciences of sociology and anthropology as well as various areas of psychology, and therefore to the need for a specific approach to planning studies and research methodology in the case of such questions. The authors make reference to scientific tradition connected with cross-cultural comparisons as well as methodological problems making their appearance in projects so approached. The practical part of this article presents research financed out of resources of the Scientific Research Committee over the years 2004-2005 as a research project.
REVIEWS. DISCUSSIONS
Król H. and Ludwiczyński A. (Editors): Zarządzanie Zasobami Ludzkimi. Tworzenie kapitału ludzkiego organizacji [Human Resource Management: Creating an Organization's Human Capital] - Zbigniew Antczak
FROM THE EDITOR'S SHOWCASE
Managing Executive Staffs in International Organizations - Alina Kulesza
CHRONICLE. INFORMATION
The 8th Edition of the Leader Competition has been launched - Editorial Staff
Report from the 7th ceremonious session of the Program Council, Board of Sponsors, and editorial college of the HRM bi-monthly - Editorial Staff
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