Bimonthly "Human Resource Managment" (HRM)
Table of Contents 1a/2002
From the Editor - Aleksy Pocztowski
ARTICLES
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.
Aleksy Pocztowski - Facing Old Traditions and New Challenges - HRM in CEE
Based on several publications undertaking various personnel-related matters and presenting results of empirical research, this paper presents typical human resource management problems facing Central and Eastern Europe, including Polish experience in greater detail.
Vincent Edwards- Building on the past - HRM and managerial attitudes in CEE: results of a seven-country survey
The system change has transformed fundamentally the ways in which companies in Central and Eastern Europe operate. This operational change is exemplified by the move from personnel administration towards human resource management. There is evidence, moreover, that these developments have been evolving in different ways in the respective countries of the region. On the basis of a seven-country survey of managerial attitudes, issues of convergence and divergence are explored. It is argued that divergence of managerial views and practices reflects the reality of management practice and is also potentially a resource for HRM.
Tonu Kaarelson, Ruth Alas - Estonia - 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 - On the Behavior of Romanian Manager
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 - Innovation in Russian Business: 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.
Mikaił Voejkov - Russia - Managing Labor Relations: 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.
LEADERS' FORUM
Bogusława Urbaniak, Piotr Bohdziewicz - Poland - Creating modern human resource management
REVIEWS AND DISCUSSIONS
M. Becker, R. Lang, D. Wagner (ed.), Sechs Jahre danach: Personalarbeit in den neuen Bundesländern, Rainer Hampp Verlag, München und Mering 1996, Aleksy Pocztowski
Vincent Edwards, Peter Lawrence, Management in Eastern Europe, Palgrave 2000, Great Britain - Beata Buchelt
Jolanta Szaban Transformations In the Role of Polish Directors As a Result of Systemic Changes - From Director to Euromanager - Renata Trochimiuk
FROM THE PUBLISHER'S SHOWCASE
Human Resource Management Problems in Europe - Ewa Wyglądała
INFORMATION. CHRONICLE
Company Strategy and Employment Restructuring - Conference Conclusions - Katarzyna Stobińska
Human Resource Management - Challenges On the Threshold of the 21st Century - Piotr Bohdziewicz
Managing Work - Conference - Piotr Bohdziewicz
Intellectual Capital in the Economy: Dilemmas and Challenges - A Scientific Conference - Anna Ujway-Gil
Company Efficiency Through Flexible Forms of Employment - Conference Conclusions - Lucyna Machol-Zajda
Knowledge Management in the Company - Conference - Renata Trochimiuk
Results of the 3rd Edition of the Best Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations in the Field of Labor and Social Affairs - Bożena Kołaczek
The Labor Market and Integration With the European Union - Conference - Agnieszka Furmańska
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