Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej

Wroclaw University of Economics and Business | WUE · Department of Labour, Capital and Innovation

The main goal of the monograph is to fill the gap between sustainable human resources management and the assumptions of the Industry 5.0 concept. In addition, aspects influencing the sustainable management of resources for the transformation of enterprises towards sustainable development are identified.

This paper aims to investigate the direct and indirect effects of 5S implementation (5S) on firm sustainable performance (FSP), mediated by basic needs satisfaction (BNS) and moderated by sustainable leadership (SL). The proposed research framework was developed on the basis of self-determination theory and situational leadership theory. The study...

W literaturze przedmiotu wskazuje się, że zielone zarządzanie projektami jest jednym z rosnących trendów, jednak obecne rozważania dotyczące tego obszaru odnoszą się przede wszystkim do procesu zarządzania projektami, narzędzi, metodyk czy standardów. Istotne wydaje się zwrócenie także uwagi na proces budowania i zarządzania zielonymi zespołami pro...

This paper aims to examine the longitudinal relationships between the intensity of remote work (IRW) and job performance (JP) with the mediation effect of work-life balance (WLB) and moderation by work overload (WO). A three-wave longitudinal survey, covering pre-pandemic period, the pandemic itself and the post-pandemic period, was conducted among...

Purpose Drawing on social exchange and social comparison theories, the current work aims to examine the direct and indirect effect of sustainable leadership (SL) on employees’ change-oriented organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) through workplace envy (WE). Design/methodology/approach The authors collected data from multiple sources (311 empl...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to integrate job demands–resources theory with core self-evaluation theory to examine how and when sustainable project leadership stimulates sustainable project performance. Psychological empowerment is used as a mechanism between sustainable project leadership and sustainable project performance, whereas core s...

We draw on job demands-resources theory to develop and test a model that explores the direct and indirect (through relational energy) impact of inclusive leadership on workplace avoidance behaviors for neurodivergent employees. We also examine the moderating role of personal self-control demands in the relationship between rela-tional energy and wo...

This study aims to assess how the WLB (work-life balance) and JS (job security) of service sector employees have changed over time, taking into consideration the following periods: before the pandemic (T0), the pandemic (T1) and after the pandemic (T2). The authors tested five hypotheses: H1: JS decreased after T0 and increased after T1. H2: WLB de...

Existing gender inequality across all sectors has weakened women's resilience to risk management. The chaos heightens if they are not only breadwinners of their family but roaring the entrepreneurial world. Disasters and crises hit entrepreneurs equally but post-disaster damages following ripple effects hit hardest to women ruling the one-third por...

Purpose I aimed to analyze and synthesize the literature on sustainable HRM and its sub-concepts, such as green HRM and socially responsible HRM, with the focus on research conducted in the Visegrad Group (V4) countries. I posed the following research questions: (1) What are the main characteristics of sustainable HRM research in the worldwide lite...

Frugal innovation through frugal functionality, frugal cost, and frugal ecosystems that reduce goods to their essential features has emerged as a highly effective method to improve sustainable development across societies, in developed countries as well as in developing countries. Drawing on social exchange theory and effectuation theory, this stud...

Purpose The aim of this study is to offer evidence-based knowledge of the most popular research topics in studies on spiritual leadership (SL) and the research approaches and theories in use. Another aim is to create a comprehensive research framework covering the antecedents and outcomes of SL, as well as the underlying mechanisms and conditional...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to research the impact of digitalization on employees' future competencies and the conditional role of human resource development (HRD) in the relationship between independent and dependent variables. Design/methodology/approach Empirical research covered 1209 enterprises from all of Slovakia, Poland and the Cz...

Purpose Based on the social exchange theory, the aim of the present study is to examine the effects, both direct and indirect (through sustainability-oriented innovative behaviors [SIBs]), of sustainable project leadership (SPL) on sustainable project performance (SPP). Project management approaches (PMAs) (traditional, hybrid and agile) were exami...

Research background: Many authors emphasize that successful human resource management(HRM) practices align with employees’ needs associated with the construct of employees’ interests. In particular, the importance of considering employees’ interests is emphasized in the process of shaping the architecture of Socially Responsible Human Resource Mana...

Purpose The article explores the linkages between the type of environmental strategy (ES), the use of internal communication (IC), and the greening of organizational culture (OC). Moreover, the article empirically examines whether company size matters in the use of environmental IC practices in the green context. Additionally, the article considers...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to analyze the differences between non-standard forms of employment (FoE) (i.e. dependent self-employment/business-to-business/B2B contract and contract of mandate) in terms of investing in the development of future competencies by employees and employers. This study also examined additional factors which influence...

There is on ongoing debate as to whether managerial ties trigger or impede frugal innovation. By integrating social networking with the situational leadership theory , this article hypothesizes and tests whether the relationship between managerial (business and political) ties and frugal innovation is moderated by the perceived leadership style (su...

This study aims to answer the following research question: How can green human resource management (GHRM) spur green business process management (GBPM)? It employs a literature review combined with scientific reflection. This work contributes to the development of knowledge by (1) conducting an analysis and synthesis of literature on GBPM, (2) comb...

W literaturze anglojęzycznej analizowane tutaj kompetencje określa się takimi zwrotami, jak: sustainable competencies, competencies in sustainability, competencies for sustainability/sustainable development, sustainability competencies. Ponadto rozpatruje się je z różnych perspektyw teoretycznych i praktycznych. Z kolei kapitał ludzki zamiennie byw...

This chapter presents a literature review on trust in the context of business management. It utilizes a mixed-method approach which combines bibliometric analyses and keywords’ network analyses with in-dept content analyses of the most-influential literature sources (taking into account the number of citations received as reported by Scopus). It sh...

Purpose: Drawing on the social exchange theory (SET) and the self-determination theory (SDT), the present study aims to examine the impact of green human resource management (GHRM) on three types of employee green behavior (EGB)-green in-role, innovative and extra-role-in the presence of environmental managerial support (EMS) as a conditional facto...

Although the development and the implementation of Renewable Energy (RE) solutions are crucial for the transformation of countries towards sustainability, Project Management (PM) may help companies to introduce these solutions, although no study analyzes and synthetizes previous research on the interplay between PM and RE. The article aims to fill...

This examines the six drivers and twelve detailed practices of sustainable human resource development (S-HRD) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic across different organizations in Poland. The empirical strategy is based on explorative research conducted using surveys in Poland between 2020 and 2021. The results confirm that the surveyed organiz...

Purpose The aim of the paper is to theoretically and empirically explore the issue of well-being (WB) of female administrative employees who work on managerial positions at higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach This study is based on both literature studies and explorative empirical research conducted in Poland with the...

Purpose This study examines how sustainable leadership influences organizational citizenship behavior toward the environment, directly and through a green organizational climate. This study also investigates the moderating effect of person-organization fit on the relationship between green organizational climate and employees' organizational citize...

Purpose Considering the vital role of resource-constraint innovation in developing countries, the aim of the study is to examine the mechanism of internal and external heterogeneous knowledge sharing (HKS) in the relationship between sustainable leadership (SL) and frugal innovation (FI). The social exchange theory was used to develop a research fr...

Purpose The aim of this research is to examine the roles of trust and electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM) in crowdfunding (CF) participation for equity CF by taking into account the following antecedents of trust and e-WOM: intrinsic motivation (IM), extrinsic motivation (EM), deterrents, venture quality (VQ), third-party seal (TPS), value congruence...

Evaluating the effectiveness of organizational practices from employees’ perspectives (associated with employees’ interests) brings valuable information that helps adjust an organisation’s actions to employees’ needs. However, extant empirical research has mostly focused on managers as the level of analysis. This study fills this gap by examining t...

This paper fills the gap in the studies addressing the problem of corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept implementation maturity in an organization approached holistically. It is based on an integrative literature review covering 104 publications indexed in WoS and Scopus. The literature review shows that the maturity of the implementation o...

The aim of this paper is to synthetize and critically analyze the linkage between leadership styles and sustainable performance (SP) through application of the rigor of systematic literature reviews. Bibliometric characterization of articles indexed in the Scopus database, network analysis and a manual in-depth review were carried out. The final sa...

Plants maintain the ecological equilibrium of the earth and stabilize the ecosystem. Today, traditional commodities and new value-added markets can be served simultaneously. There is significant biosource and bioprocess innovation for biobased industrial products. Furthermore, plant-based innovation is associated with the transition to sustainabili...

Drawing on the conservation of resources theory and contingency theories of leadership, this study aims to investigate how sustainable leadership (SL) influences employees' wellbeing (WB) through employee resilience (ER) and to examine the moderating effect of environmental turbulence (ET) on the “sustainable leadership-employees' wellbeing” relati...

This chapter presents the theoretical and empirical linkage between management by values (MBV) and socially responsible human resource management (SRHRM). Moreover, it shows how appropriate implementation of both analyzed concepts impacts a company performance in the time of the Covid-19 crisis. For the purpose of this chapter both literature studi...

Purpose Rapid changes in the business environment and the accelerating dynamics and increasing complexity shaping the functioning of organizations have given rise to modern concepts of people management. The Management 3.0 (M3.0) concept was developed based on agile project management concept; however, it can be implemented not only in projects, bu...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to detect trends in human resource management (HRM) research presented in journals during the 2000–2020 timeframe. The research question is: How are the interests of researchers changing in the field of HRM and which topics have gained popularity in recent years? Design/methodology/approach The approach adopted...

Although company ownership (local vs. foreign) has been used as a contingency variable that differentiates companies’ environmental activities and performance, the current understanding of these differences is fragmented. None of the previous studies examined the relationships between company ownership and a complex set of organizational practices...

Purpose The aim of the article is to define the way of understanding of agile in enterprises, to verify the factors limiting agility implementation, as well as to understand what the expectations of enterprise management towards agile implementation are. Design/methodology/approach The article uses both literature studies and empirical research. T...

The issue of project management methodologies has never be undertaken by academics in the context of their contribution to sustainability. There is the lack of understanding which Agile Project Management (APM) results and Agile value crea- tion methods are in line with the assumptions of sustainability. The article fills this gap and presents the...

p> C elem artykułu jest przybliżenie procesu powstawania szkół naukowych ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem szkół zarządzania. Do realizacji celu wykorzystano narracyjny, krytyczny przegląd literatury. W opracowaniu przedstawiono pojęcie szkół naukowych wraz z charakterystyką procesu ich rozwoju. W ramach wprowadzenia do zagadnienia szkół zarządzania op...

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie sylwetki jednego z mistrzów zarządzania w Polsce, tj. prof. Bera Hausa i jego podopiecznych / kontynuatorów oraz wrocławskiej empirycznej szkoły zarządzania, której Profesor Ber Haus jest twórcą. W warstwie teoretycznej wykorzystano narracyjny przegląd literatury, a w warstwie empirycznej zastosowano metodę biogr...

PURPOSE: The theoretical aim of this study is to explore the nature of the “technological innovation–labor market” relationships presented recently in the literature, based on publications indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. The empirical purpose is to examine these relationships in companies operating in the confectionery industry...

Purpose: The following two main research questions were addressed in this article: 1) Which employees’ interests are the most important for Ukrainian migrant workers? 2) To what extent companies ensure the interests of Ukrainian migrant workers? Since migration is often associated with precarious employment, the problems of the relationship between...

Purpose Considering the vital role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in accomplishing sustainable development goals, this study aims to examine how and when sustainable leadership (SL) influences sustainable performance by examining social innovation (SI) as a mediating mechanism and managerial discretion (MD) as a boundary condition based on...

National culture (NC) plays a crucial role in transitioning societies toward sustainable development (SD) which is based on the triple bottom line (TBL) approach. The impact of NC should be broadly analyzed, taking into account the perspective of individuals, organizations, societies, etc. This constitutes the general field of “national culture sus...

All companies should care about the natural environment, though they may implement different environmental strategies. Since the overall company strategy is reflected in functional strategies, vertical consistency needs to exist between the type of corporate environmental strategy and human resource (HR) policies and practices (which reflect the HR...

Theoretical background: Employees’ behavior plays a crucial role in the organizational environmental performance. There are many factors which influence pro-ecological behavior among employees, however, this paper focuses on the practices related to green human resources management (HRM) and – in particular – to the HR function. Purpose of the arti...

The purpose of the article is to provide answers to the following research questions: How popular are digital games as the first step to gamification, comparing to other teaching methods used in such fields of study as economics, humanities and natural science in Poland? What is the practice of using gamification in academic teaching? The subject l...

Purpose Organizational culture has an impact on various activities in organizations, including project management (PM). The aim of the study is to answer the following research questions: RQ1: what significance is attributed to organizational culture compared to the objective project characteristics when choosing the dominant PM methodology in orga...

The purpose of the study is to analyze the correlations between two clearly defined forms of non-standard employment (self-employment and mandate contract) and workers’ health. The study also addressed such variables as gender, age, length of service, and the reason for employment (voluntary vs. non-voluntary). The research was carried out in Polan...

The basic role in the development of the national economy of each country play their citizens – their entrepreneurs. Preparation of the society for entrepreneurial activities takes place during the education process. In the Polish National Development Program for years 2007-2013 the development of entrepreneurial competencies was prioritized in ord...

Several current research on green jobs focus mostly on rural areas and they analyze this topic in the context of Circular Economy or specific industries. However, the context of multinational companies is still uncovered. This study aims to map the field by relating the Green Jobs in multinational companies in the business/ management literature. T...

Business is not only an important perpetrator of the environmental problems, but it also plays a key role in successfully addressing them. In the process of solving environmental problem not only the role of large companies but also entrepreneurs has been noticed. Environmental entrepreneurship (otherwise referred to as “ecopreneurship”) can be def...

The key to a successful implementation of the idea of sustainable development in organizations is competent, motivated employees. Therefore, Human Resource Management (HRM) is of particular interest to practitioners and researchers. New HRM concepts that address emerging problems – such as sustainable HRM – arise and develop. The aim of this articl...

The concept of sustainability has been gaining importance and influencing the development of an approach towards employees referred to as sustainable HRM (SHRM). HR development is one of the principles of SHRM that should be implemented consistently along with other SHRM principles, which means, e.g., that the development of employees should be car...

This study is focused on the assumption that the analyses focused on sustainable human resource management (HRM) should include the problem of unstable forms of employment. Reference was also made to Poland, the country where the share of unstable forms of employment is the highest in the European Union. The authors based their findings on the lite...

The purpose of the article is to answer the following research question: What will change in particular elements of Human Resource Management be in the context of Industry 4.0? To achieve the defined purpose, literature studies and empirical research (based on focus group interviews with HR specialists) were used. Such HRM issues as the future of j...

Organizational culture is currently considered a critical factor in achieving success in any business activity, including the implementation of the idea of sustainability. Sustainability-driven organizations incorporate a triple bottom line approach, which promotes the collateral achievement of companies’ environmental, economic, and social goals....

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie koncepcji Design Thinking (DT) w kontekście tworzenia i implementacji innowacji w przemyśle chemicznym. W artykule omówiono m.in. modele procesu DT i narzędzia stosowane w poszczególnych fazach procesu DT. Przedstawiono także przykłady zastosowania tej koncepcji w praktyce oraz wskazano kierunki dalszych badań. T...

p> Zidentyfikowano lukę badawczą dotyczącą przeobrażeń na rynku pracy, które są stymulatorami zmian technologicznych wprowadzanych w różnych branżach. Stało się to podstawą dla prezentacji wpływu zmian zachodzących na polskim rynku pracy na wdrażanie nowych rozwiązań technologicznych w przemyśle cukierniczym. Teoretyczno-empiryczny charakter artyku...

Local food production is meaningful not only for a single producer but also for the consumer, and finally for the entire region. Therefore, it would be beneficial to take up the issue of local entrepreneurship in the context of food production. The aim of the study was to analyze important terms, research topics, and research results related to the...

Background. Although one can find in the subject literature how to implement management by values (MBV), this concept is still relatively new and not devel‑ oped enough. Over the years, it has been proven that there is a direct relationship between management by values and the economic performance of an organization. Research aims. The aim of the p...

The purpose of this article is to present organizational culture as a project risk factor. In writing this article, references were made to the subject literature presentation of risk areas in projects. It was highlighted in this article that since every organization has its own culture, a single project, as a micro-organization also has its own cu...

Research background: Labour is a primary factor of production. The economic growth cannot be explained only by the increasing application of factors of production. Specifically, per capita GDP cannot grow in the long run unless it is assumed that productivity also grows, which Solow refers to as "technical progress". The first association with tech...

The aim of the article is to answer the questions: 1) What is the mechanism (driving force) of the implementation of the assumptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in the specific conditions of the confectionery industry in Poland? 2) How mature is the analyzed industry in the implementation of the idea of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? The...

Omówiono zagadnienia kultury BHP oraz jej operacjonalizację w aspekcie bezpieczeństwa i zdrowia w przemyśle chemicznym w Polsce. Stworzono i przetestowano narzędzie służące diagnozie kultury BHP oraz określono jej poziom na próbie 30 pracowników zakładów produkcyjnych. Poziom kultury określono jako średni.

IIdea for future research about INTERNET OF THINGS IN THE CONFECTIONERY INDUSTRY? RESEARCH QUESTIONS 1. What is the future of the production of standard products? Will it significantly decrease or completely disappear in 10-20 years? 2. Will the IoT idea replace only luxury products such as pralines or also seasonal products like Christmas / Easte...

With regard to manufacturing companies, technological innovations are the subject of analyses. These innovations include new products and processes as well as significant technological changes in products and processes. The aim of the article is to answer the following research questions: What are the main barriers to technological innovation for s...

The aim of the article is to present – on the basis of literature studies and the case study method – the nature of projects which are carried out in the confectionery industry focusing on a specific mixed project management methodology called Innovation for Market (IFM). The case study is related to a large chocolate producer (a branch of a global...

Research background: Labour is a primary factor of production. The economic growth cannot be explained only by the increasing application of factors of production. Specifically, per capita GDP cannot grow in the long run unless it is assumed that productivity also grows, which Solow refers to as “technical progress”. The first association with tech...

The purpose of the article is to present gamification as an innovative instrument used in Human Resources Management (HRM). Gamification fits into the concept of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (also referred to as the Cyber Revolution). Due to a lack of statistics on the use of gamification in HRM, the article presents the character of the analyzed...

Purpose – The study attempts to operationalize the concept of organizational boundaries in terms of human resources. The purpose of the study is to identify the scope, the place of enterprise boundaries’ occurrence and their nature in situations when alternative solutions are applied with reference to employment. It was accompanied by specifying th...

W opracowaniu podjęto próbę systematyzacji takich pojęć, jak przedsiębiorczość, przedsiębiorczość akademicka i technologiczna oraz innowacyjność. Wskazano na wielość ujęć i pokrywanie się poszczególnych terminów nie tylko w publikacjach napisanych w ramach różnych, ale także w ramach jednej dyscypliny wiedzy. Podkreślono znaczenie wprowadzania rozr...

Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie zagadnienia tworzenia kultu-ry bhp oraz powiązania jej z wyróżnionymi w literaturze przedmiotu poziomami bezpieczeństwa i higieny pracy. W końcowej części opra-cowania nawiązano do wyników badań empirycznych nad kulturą bhp: własnych i obcych. Przedstawione rozważania mają charakter nie tylko teoriopoznawczy, ale...

The literature focused on project-based management is increasingly frequently discussing the problems of team management. The activities addressed to project team members can, however, be approached from the perspective of a process. Personnel process should represent the set of interrelated, coordinated activities contributing to the project goal...

The aim of the article is to present the relationship between the practice of managing project teams and preferences of team members in this area and a model approach to management styles in particular project phases, based on the concept of J.R. Turner and R. Müller. The research process was based on literature studies and empirical research. The...

The aim of the article is to present the issue of project manager competencies and project leadership styles which occur in different types of project-oriented organizations, i.e., the strictly project-oriented organizations (implementing projects for external clients) and organizations that manage projects for internal purposes. The subject litera...

The aim of the article is to answer the research questions that concern both the essence of pedagogical innovation and the opportunities and barriers of creating detailed components of teachers’ creative potential in the workplace. The article presents the definition of pedagogical innovation created on the basis of the general notion of innovation...

Aim: The paper seeks to supplement the theory of HR business partnering by presenting the concept of the role of HR business partner in project-oriented organizations. To this end, the intermediate stages of the study encompass the discussion how the role of HR department as a business partner is being formulated against other roles, and the descri...

The 1980s saw popularisation of the management paradigm requiring that employee intellectual potential should be noticed and used. The subjective approach to employees is fully reflected in the empowerment process. The definition scope of the analysed notion has not been unambiguously delineated to date. In narrow terms, empowerment means delegatin...

Aim: The paper seeks to supplement the theory of HR business partnering by presenting the concept of the role of HR business partner in project-oriented organizations. To this end, the intermediate stages of the study encompass the discussion how the role of HR department as a business partner is being formulated against other roles, and the descri...

Nowadays, repetitive or routine activities are slowly giving way to unique and complicated activities – i.e. projects. Many enterprises implement the so-called management by projects (MBP). The enterprises following such an approach are referred to as project-oriented organizations (PORORs). A project and an organization cannot exist without approp...

Celem niniejszego artykułu jest udzielenie odpowiedzi na następujące pytania badawcze: " Jak jest postrzegany empowerment w kontekście przejawów tzw. współczesnych koncepcji zarządzania? " oraz " Jakie są relacje między empowermentem a partycypacją pracowniczą? ". Proces badawczy oparto na studiach literaturowych połączonych z refleksją naukową. Do...

Współczesne organizacje muszą być elastyczne. Wyrazem tej elastyczności jest stosowanie podejścia projektowego, czyli powoływanie interdyscyplinarnych zespołów, których zadaniem jest dostarczenie określonego wcześniej rezultatu oraz wykorzystanie charakterystycznych narzędzi zarządzania projektami. Projekt jako pewien system społeczny także może by...

In this study - based on the result of own and others empirical research, regarding conditions of person’s functioning in the process of work during the last decade of 2000’s - an attempt of indicating dilemmas connected with shaping of employment security has been made. The field of study was approached not only from the perspective of employees a...

1) What are the differences between work in projects and work in a permanent organizational unit specialized in a specified area? 2) What attitudes towards work in projects are represented by the labor market participants? 3) What factors influence the specific attitudes towards work in projects? In the research process it has been revealed that, i...