Jerzy Hausner A Challenge for Hard Times
Mass structural unemployment and a dearth of perspectives for any quick improvement in the situation on the labor market, an ineffective and costly social welfare system, the jumbled public service system, growing poverty, and an absence of social dialogue show the scale of the challenge facing the government, especially the Minister of Labor.

Hans Böhm Personnel Management of the Future. Its Place in the Company and Development Perspectives
As a result of unification, Germans now face the challenge created by the collision of two difference systems of reasoning and acting. This also applies to human resource management. The author presents current German discussions on the role and place of HRM in the company as well as on selection of human resource management development directions.

Tonu Kaarelson and Ruth Alas Estonian Organizations on the Road from Personnel Management to Human Resource Management
Traditional personnel management in Estonian companies began to take on the dimension of human resource management in the mid-nineteen-nineties. The authors of this article present the results of research in the area of HRM in private and public Estonian organizations. Studies were conducted in the autumn of 2000 on the basis of a questionnaire developed by the European Center for Human Resource Management of the Cranfield School of Management. This makes possible comparison of its results with data from other European countries.

Adriana Prodan About the Behavior of Romanian Managers
The managerial community of Romania underwent many changes as a result of the economic and political transformations of 1989. On the basis of empirical studies, the author presents the types of competencies present in today's Romanian organizations, analyzes the style applied by Romanian managers in making decisions, and tries to define factors linked with the molding of managers' approach with respect to the challenges they face

Igor Gurkov Ownership Structures, Innovativeness and Organizational Development in Russian Industrial Companies: A View from Within
The author presents the results of empirical studies conducted on a small sample of Russian managers concerning recently introduced innovation in their respective companies as well as barriers faced by managers in implementing their own innovative ideas. He also presents an interesting and certainly important link between organizational development, ownership structure, and the volume and range of implemented innovation.

Mikhail Voeykov Managing Labor Relations In Russian Companies: Problems and Tendencies The period of systemic transformation in Russia resulted in minimal change in the realm of labor; the changes that did occur had no significant impact on changes to the social and economic system. Labor relations in companies continue to the shaped in line with old patterns. A new category of the middle class is slowly emerging, however. It is tied with the newly created private sector of the economy. The social costs of change are enormous; this is seen in the drastic fall in quantity and in the worsening of the consumption structure of basic food products.

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Bogusława Urbaniak and Piotr Bohdziewicz How Do the Best Do It? Creating Modern Human Resource Management

M. Becker, R. Lang, and D. Wagner (ed.), Six Years Later: Personnel Work in the New Federated Lands of the Federal Republic of Germany - Aleksy Pocztowski Vincent Edwards and Peter Lawrence, Management in Eastern Europe - Beata Buchelt Jolanta Szaban, Transformations In the Role of Polish Directors As a Result of Systemic Changes - From Director to Euromanager -Renata Trochiniuk

Knowledge Management in the Company Conference - Renata Trochiniuk Results of the 3rd Edition of the Best Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations in the Field of Labor and Social Affairs - Editorial Staff The Labor Market and Integration With the European Union - Conference - Zenon Wiśniewski, Agnieszka Furmańska

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