Konrad Kulikowski

• PhD
• PhD at Lodz University of Technology

This conceptual paper explores the impact of quantitative research evaluation systems, on the intellectual capital (IC) of modern universities. By integrating the theory of IC and research evaluation scholarship, we shed light on how quantitative research evaluations might gradually shift the values of universities from traditional values centred a...

Tekst mojego autorstwa opublikowany w Studiach Socjologicznych nr 1(252) pt.: „Negatywne oddziaływanie polityki ewaluacji jednostek naukowych na jakość polskiej nauki” (Kulikowski, 2024), spotkał się z odpowiedzią polemiczną. Odbieram to jako wyróżnienie, gdyż wśród dziesiątek tekstów naukowych to akurat mój tekst wzbudził zainteresowanie. Krytyczn...

Objectives In an era of management hype, where management concepts and techniques quickly become buzzwords within the business community (e.g., chat GPT, Artificial Intelligence, pay transparency or Industry 5.0), the crucial skill of a manager is the ability to think critically about the rationality of all those new shiny management practices. To...

Główne pytanie badawcze prezentowanego artykułu brzmi: czy polska polityka ewaluacji jednostek naukowych wpływa na podnoszenie poziomu nauki w polskich instytucjach naukowych? Przyjęto założenie, iż warunkiem jakości nauki jako działalności ukierunkowanej na generowanie nowej wiedzy jest etos naukowy oparty na czterech imperatywach Roberta K. Merto...

Understanding how personality (e.g., DeNeve and Cooper 1998; Steel et al. 2019) and intellectual abilities (e.g., Gottfredson 1997, 2004b; Brown et al. 2021; Kulikowski 2021) contribute to shaping aspects of individuals’ lives is essential for in the advancement of many scientific disciplines such as psychology, management and medicine. However, al...

PURPOSE: Human resources (HR) analytics systems, powered by big data, AI algorithms, and information technology, are increasingly adopted by organizations to enhance HR’s impact on business performance. However, despite the widespread acknowledgment of the importance of “analytical skills” among HR practitioners in successfully implementing HR anal...

Purpose With pay transparency (PT) as an emerging trend in organizations around the world and the European Union promoting open pay regulations, PT is of increasing interest to scientists, managers and policymakers. However, it is still unclear what people think about PT and what theoretical perspectives might explain people's views on transparent...

I would like to present methodological, theoretical, and practical arguments which suggest that Sackett et al. (2022, 2023) calls for revisiting the role of GMA in personnel selection are premature. (...) One of the main suggestions of Sackett et al. (2022), is the rejection of Schmidt and Hunter’s (1998) conclusion about GMA role in predicting per...

This article aims to gain insight into the phenomenon of occupational burnout among employees with autism based on the theoretical framework of the Job Demands-Resources theory and the literature on employees with autism in the workplace. Firstly, we argue that although the resources and demands of the neurotypical and neurodivergent employees migh...

Raport przedstawia podsumowanie odpowiedzi na pytania zadane podczas badania dotyczącego tego, jak pracownicy naukowi oceniają system oceny okresowej, której podlegają. W badaniu wzięło udział 1191 naukowców. Pytania dotyczyły trzech zasadniczych kwestii. Po pierwsze, odnosiły się do napięć pomiędzy oceną ilościową a jakościową pracy naukowej. Bada...

Objective: We aim to verify the dimensionality of the total rewards (TR) model, the idea that employees’ compensations do not consist only of money but encompass all financial and non-financial values that employees received from their work. Research Design & Methods: Drawing inspirations from three influential TR models and using data from a larg...

University students are considered digital natives but they often have difficulties in the effective integration of information technology (IT) into their study routine. To unravel this puzzle we proposed a model of IT effects on students' well-being, based on the Job Demands-Resources theory, one of the most widely used models of human well-being...

In this article, we focused on the nature of the relationship between research evaluation systems that are based on metrics and those that are based on a critical comprehensive judgment of scientific content with researchers’ burnout and work engagement. The research was conducted on a sample of 1,191 Polish researchers in the context of a highly m...

Objectives In December 2019 a proposal to introduce the obligation to provide transparent information on salaries in job offers was submitted to the Polish parliament. This proposal was criticized by representatives of employers and state administration and received a negative opinion from the Council of Ministers. In this article, we conduct an an...

PURPOSE: Work engagement is among the most influential constructs in human resource management, but work engagement's current understanding overlooks what employees consider as engagement. The author aims to advance the human resources theory and practice by discussing the need for understanding engagement from the employee point of view, and the...

CEL NAUKOWY: Próba uporządkowania sposobów rozumienia jawności wynagradzania oraz nakreślenie jej kluczowych wymiarów, które należy brać pod uwagę planując polityki publiczne i tworząc regulaminy wynagradzania. PROBLEM I METODY BADAWCZE: Zamieszanie terminologiczne związane z jawnością wynagrodzenia może prowadzić do tworzenia norm prawnych oraz r...

Rogelberg et al. (2022) suggest that to bring industrial-organizational (I-O) science closer to the public we need to concentrate on communication efforts to better translate it. I believe that this argument should be taken further when concentrating on communication as the main causal factor in the research–public gap might lead us astray from som...

Wypalenie zawodowe to problem, który może dotknąć każdego z nas, nie dziwi zatem, że przyciąga uwagę zarówno menadżerów, naukowców, jak i pracowników. Jednak mimo ogromnej popularności wypalenia zawodowego, w badaniach naukowych i popkulturze wciąż wiemy o nim zaskakująco mało. Prezentowany selektywny przegląd literatury prezentuje zestawienie wybr...

The COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges for higher education institutions (HEI), one of the most important being forced e-learning – the involuntary need to move all educational activities to an online environment. In this exploratory study, we aim to learn from students’ feedback on demands created by COVID-19 forced e-learning to provide HE...

The COVID-19 pandemic created many challenges for higher education institutions (HEI), one of the most important being forced e-learning-the involuntary need to move all educational activities to an online environment. In this exploratory study, we aim to learn from students' feedback on demands created by COVID-19 forced e-learning to provide HEI...

Online learning helps to continue education in the face of Covid-19 lockdowns and social isolation, but it might largely change characteristics of academic teachers’ jobs and, thus, have some unintended consequences for teachers’ motivating job potential. In this study, using a convenience sample of 202 academic teachers, we tested and supported th...

During the COVID‐19 pandemic, universities worldwide are going into ‘emergency mode’—radically transforming education by switching to online and e‐learning education. In the face of these emergent changes, many academic teachers who are unwilling to use e‐learning or who lack the appropriate competences are suddenly being forced to teach via electr...

Purpose Despite evidence showing that cognitive biases – the systematic errors made by humans during cognitive processing, are prevalent among decision-makers, there is a lack of theoretical models providing insight into how these limitations of human mind might affect decisions made during performance management. This study aims to fill this gap a...

Purpose This conceptual paper aims to propose the evidence-based benchmarking model that bridges standard benchmarking practices with evidence-based management (EBMgt) principles and lessens tensions between two opposite views of benchmarking as a useful management tool vs a management hype and fashion. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual...

The prominent burnout models overlook cognitive abilities, that is quite surprising when we consider a) the emerging body of evidence suggesting that burnout is negatively associated with cognitive functioning and b) the tremendous positive role of cognitive abilities in the world of work. Thus, in this conceptual paper, drawing inspiration from th...

Wynagradzanie pracowników to nie jedyny aspekt zarządzania efektywnością, ale to aspekt istotny z praktycznego punktu widzenia. Co więcej, aspekt, wbrew pozorom, mocno w obszarze zarządzania ludźmi zaniedbany (por. Gupta, Shaw, 2014). Dlatego w tej książce skupiłem się na efektywności ze szczególną koncentracją na wynagradzaniu. W pierwszej części...

Artykuł prezentuje hipotezę, iż istotnym współczesnym wyzwaniem dla polskiej społeczności akademickiej jest punktoza, rozumiana jako wartość kulturowa, wskazująca, iż jednym z najważniejszych celów pracy naukowej jest publikowanie i zdobywanie punktów za publikacje naukowe. Jako element systemu aksjo-normatywnego stanowi ona regułę wyznaczającą nor...

Performance appraisal (PA) has become a prominent feature on the agenda of higher education institutions (HEIs). However, the traditional culture of the typical university is based on individual commitment, scientific teamwork, dedication to public service and intrinsic motivation of the academic staff, all of which are the essential components of...

What role do financial rewards play as predictors of work engagement? To address this question, based on the Job Demands-Resources Theory (JD-R), the relationship between financial rewards and work engagement on a large sample (N = 1201) of multi-occupational employees was investigated. Through three steps of hierarchical regression, salary, fringe...

There is a great deal of research showing that PhD students suffer from dissatisfaction. Whereas most studies in this field strived to identify factors negatively related to PhD students' well-being, still little is known about factors positively related to the well-being of young academics. We based our analysis on the Job Demands-Resource Theory...

In recent years, the construct of work engagement as well as methods for its measurement have generated growing interest in the field of occupational psychology. In this study, we aim to contribute to the current work engagement literature by investigating the possible advantages of single-item measures of work engagement by analysing their psychom...

This study aimed to investigate the relationships between working memory capacity, fluid intelligence (Gf) and work engagement within the framework of the Job Demands‐Resources theory. Multi‐occupational employees (N = 175 in study 1, and N = 383 in study 2) completed sets of Gf, complex span and n‐back tests, along with job resources and work enga...

Background The Job Demands–Resources Theory (JD-R) is one of the most influential theoretical frameworks for explaining work engagement. The JD-R postulates the existence of a health impairment process in which job demands lead to strain, and of a motivational process in which job resources lead to work engagement. Although cognitive functions are...

Purpose Research on the relationship between pay for individual performance (PFIP) and work engagement (WE) is limited. The purpose of this paper is to present a model outlining a threefold association between PFIP and WE: a direct association, an indirect association via pay satisfaction and a joint indirect association via pay level and pay satis...

The first part of this article introduces the work engagement concept in a framework of the Job Demands-Resources Theory and discusses a relation between work engagement and job crafting. Next, the author presents the hypothesis that university education can form engaged employees by enhancing students’ self-efficacy beliefs about their ability to...

Work engagement, as conceptualised by the Utrecht work engagement scale (UWES), is a work-related positive state of mind that is characterised by vigor, dedication and absorption; however, it still remains unclear as to how many dimensions work engagement comprises. This study tested the factorial validity of 11 different UWES factorial models that...

This article presents a comprehensive model of application of employees’ attitudes and opinion surveys in the process of empowerment – strengthening the position of the employees in the organisation. The proposed 10-step model integrates contemporary psychological knowledge of job demands and resources with knowledge of employees’ empowerment. The...

In the academic community within Poland, there is an ongoing debate about the optimal strategies for a redesign of PhD programs; however, the views of PhD students in relation to contemporary doctoral study programs are not widely known. Therefore, in this article, we aim to answer the following questions: (1) what are the demands and the resources...

Artykuł przedstawia propozycję krótkiego kwestionariusza do pomiaru przekonań pracowników o stopniu uzależnienia wysokości ich wynagrodzenia od efektów wykonywanej pracy. Proponowane narzędzie może dostarczyć nowej wiedzy, użytecznej zarówno w badaniach naukowych, jak i praktyce zarządzania wynagrodzeniami. Przeprowadzone badania walidacyjne (N = 1...

Work engagement as a predictor of health is an emerging concept in occupational science and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) is the most popular work engagement measurement tool. However, despite its popularity, the UWES is not free from controversy concerning its factorial validity. In this paper, 21 research studies on both UWES-9 and UWE...

In order to propose a method for measuring employee engagement in public sector, a review of the literature was conducted; 12 original employee engagement questionnaires were found. UWES and MBI-GS were considered as the most appropriate for public sector due to their validity, reliability, support of empirical analyzes and Polish language versions...

The aim of this study was to check whether an online n-back task conducted in the uncontrolled environment of the Internet can yield valid and reliable data. For this purpose, 169 participants completed an online n-back task with n1, n2 and n3 blocks on their home computers. The results have shown acceptable reliability for overall accuracy and rea...

This study addresses the question how students’ engagement and burnout are related to academic achievement – the grade point average and the number of passed exams. The study involved 205 students. Multiple regression analysis indicated that burnout is direct significant predictor of grade point average, but the engagement is not. Relation between...

Work engagement and employee satisfaction are important predictors of work performance, absenteeism and health. However, little attention is still being paid to the engagement and satisfaction of employees of national companies. The aim of the paper is to answer the question of how the level of work engagement is represented by vigour and dedicatio...

The main aim of this study is to answer the question of how the individual characteristics of employees and specific benefits are related to benefits satisfaction. The conducted research study (N=1043) have revealed that positive predictors of benefits satisfaction are: the level of autonomy in choosing benefits and the salary level, a negative pre...

Wraz z poszerzaniem się dostępu do internetu rośnie popularność badań postaw i opinii prowadzonych online. Jednak badania internetowe wciąż traktowane bywają z nieufnością, a sposób ich przeprowadzania budzi wiele wątpliwości. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest próba przeanalizowania często pojawiających się problemów dotyczących konstruowania i reali...

The aim of this study is to present a Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM), as a model of collecting and analyzing data from employees attitudes and opinions research. CRISP – DM model through structuring and organization of the research process can improve research management and enable more efficient knowledge discovery from...

Relacje interpersonalne z współpracownikami a zaangażowanie w pracę-analiza w ramach teorii wymagań i zasobów pracy. We are born into relationships, we live our lives in relationships with others, and when we die, the effects of our relationships survive in the lives of the living. (Berscheid, 1999, s. 261) Wstęp Współcześni badacze coraz częściej...

W artykule postawiono dwa pytania badawcze: jak w świetle obecnej wiedzy rozumieć termin zaangażowanie w pracę oraz w jaki sposób zaangażowanie w pracę wiąże się z funkcjonowaniem przedsiębiorstwa. W odpowiedzi na postawione pytania wskazano, iż zaangażowanie w pracę jest terminem wieloznacznym i brak obecnie jednej powszechnie przyjmowanej definic...

The Job Demands-Resources Theory (JD-R) is a heuristic theory that explains the work engagement and exhaustion by job resources and job demands interaction. The purpose of this article is to use the JD-R as a theoretical framework of work engagement management concept. In the first part of the article the concept of work engagement is presented. Th...

In this article various ways to recognize the concept of quality of life are presented. The author attempted to show what factors may influence quality of life, and how this issue is recognized in the context of medicine and psychology. Attention was also paid to the subjective and objective aspects of quality of life. The author attempted to demon...

The aim of this study was to examine utility of The Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) as a tool to measure work engagement. The original version of UWES contains 17 items grouped in three subscales: vigor, absorption and dedication. In the sample of educated Polish people (N = 146) three subscales were highly correlated, indicating that the stru...

The paper presents the results of a study examining the relationship between employee engagement and factors such as size of the company, salary level, job position and the type of a company. The author used a Sedlak&Sedlak employee engagement questionnaire. 1734 Polish employees have been surveyed. Job position, salary and the type of a company ha...

In this paper the problem of interpersonal communication between the patient and the physiotherapist along with its implications for the process of physiotherapy are presented. The main goal of the present article is to transform theoretical knowledge about communication into clinical practice. In the first part of the article the author attempts t...