Olaf Flak

University of Silesia in Katowice · Krzysztof Kieslowski Film School

The perception of hunger and satiety is of great importance to maintaining a healthy body weight and avoiding chronic diseases such as obesity, underweight, or deficiency syndromes due to malnutrition. There are a number of disease patterns, characterized by a chronic loss of this perception. To our best knowledge, hunger and satiety cannot be clas...

Design/methodology/approach: The research method is a literature review and our own empirical research concerning the new organizational reality with hybrid virtual teams consisting of humans as well as artificial agents. The research data was the results of a long-term observation of a virtual team which was conducted in June 2021 in a group of st...

Although European energy policy supports the reduction of energy consumption, the current economic and political situation in Poland and uncertainty related to the origin of energy sources do not support it. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to identify and assess the factors that affect the energy-saving behaviour of Polish consumers in the proc...

Współczesne przedsiębiorstwa w coraz większym stopniu organizują pracę swoich pracowników w postaci zespołów wirtualnych [Mathieu, Maynard, Rapp i in. 2008]. Dodatkowo pandemia COVID-19 spowodowała, że ludzie pozostali w domach, co w wielu zawodach doprowadziło do radykalnego przejścia od współpracy na miejscu do współpracy wirtualnej [Waizenegg...

Motivation: The concept of competitiveness is used to define the ratio of enterprises to competitors and results from many internal features and the ability to deal with an external environment. However, comparing main elements of company competitiveness to each other does not give detailed position in the market sector, which is the main area of c...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present an answer to the research question of what could be the real impact of an artificial manager on the work of a team consisting of humans. Design/methodology/approach: In presenting the arguments for one way of proceeding AI-based management, a review of the recent literature in the field of artificial...

More and more teams are collaborating virtually across the globe, and the COVID-19 pandemic has further encouraged the dissemination of virtual teamwork. However, there are challenges for virtual teams – such as reduced informal communication – with implications for team effectiveness. Team flow is a concept with high potential for promoting team e...

This paper aims at estimating a level of similarity in team management in a given project in two dimensions of managerial actions: types of management techniques used by managers and their sequence. In management studies, there is extensive research on management styles, management skills, and management roles. Despite this, they are still not suff...

The paper aims at presenting results of the research which allows estimating a level of this influence and which concerns team management. The research problem in the paper concerns a possibility of replacing human managers with robots in the field of team management. If the managerial actions should be recorded by the management tools in order to...

The paper is the second part of the elaboration on identifying processes in a planning phase of a project. The theoretical background in the field of project management, methodology of the research, the content of the experiment and features of research tools was presented in the complementary paper called "Management Techniques and Tools in Projec...

Although IT systems fill and automate more and more areas of human life, and thus, manager’s work, one can ask why, at the end of the second decade of the 21st century, one cannot hire a robot as a manager? The paper presents the reasons for such a gap in applying algorithms and robots to business life and the possible solution to this problem. The...

Company competitiveness is still an important issue in management studies. It can be measured in several ways including competitive advantage and competitive positioning. The aim of the paper is to present the result of the annual research on company competitiveness conducted in Poland. The research question in this paper is: is there a relation be...

Research background: A lot of companies in the market create a variety of situations in which they compete with one another. At the same time companies crave for the same pool of demand, and in fact the money held by the buyers. Attempts to define the notion of com-petitiveness of the company appear frequently in scientific publications and in the...

The purpose of this study is to present the system of organizational terms as a theoretical foundation for representation of team management, introduce non-participating, long-term observation method of team management together with online management tools and show the example of using this method to represent and classify team managers in the fiel...

This paper takes on both a managerial and linguistic perspective on conducting research into manager behaviour. It presents theoretical foundations for creating knowledge about the activities of team managers using a system of organisational terms, and showcases how linguistic analysis can be applied to enhance findings in the area of management st...

The aim of the paper is to present the method of management by objectives in measuring effectiveness of teams. The main elements of this method – goals and tasks – were used to measure teams' work on the same project. The quantitative measurers of goals and tasks let assess an effectiveness of teams and compare teams to one another. The methodology...

Competitiveness is a concept that evaluates the entities participating in the competition in terms of the results, as well as the ability to achieve benefits in the future by a company. The company referred to as "competitive" is able to achieve from its economic activity relatively greater benefits than their competitors. In this article the autho...

The process of globalization of the economy that has been made in recent years, requires a new perspective on the development of enterprises and a more professional management of these entities. Therefore, the concept of competitiveness has become particularly important for companies and at the same time also quite popular among entrepreneurs, mana...

In the paper there are results of the research on competitiveness of Polish companies which was conducted within the Company Competitiveness Barometer in 2014. The paper includes a short description of the integrated company competitiveness model, their integral elements and methodology of the research. Then there are results of a competitive poten...

Streszczenie: Artykuł jest pierwszą częścią opracowania na temat wykorzystania instrumentu szkoleń pracowniczych w przedsiębiorstwach południowej Polski i przedstawia teoretyczne podstawy Barometru Rynku Szkoleń. W artykule zaprezentowano wybrane definicje pojęć związanych ze szkoleniami personelu, wybrane obszarów aktywności szkoleniowej, jakie zn...

This paper is about the introductory diagnosis of trainings on innovations which are offered by the best and most popular training companies in Poland. The opening research was conducted in December of 2011 among 20 companies claimed as the best Polish companies in the training sector. The issues described in the text are: types of knowledge receiv...

W prezentowanym artykule dokonano powtórnej weryfikacji zintegrowanego modelu konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstwa, zaprezentowanego w poprzednich publikacjach autorów na podstawie badań przeprowadzonych w roku 2014 w ramach projektu Barometr Konkurencyjności Przedsiębiorstw. W oparciu o dane zgromadzone w ramach Barometru w roku 2013 autorzy w poprze...

Artykuł przedstawia autorskie podejście do badania konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstwa oraz jego empiryczną weryfikację na podstawie badań przeprowadzonych w roku 2013 za pomocą narzędzia badawczego jakim jest Barometr Konkurencyjności Przedsiębiorstw, zamieszczonego na witrynie www.konkurencyjniprzetrwaja.pl. Artykuł zawiera krótki opis zintegrowane...

The aim of the paper is to present results of the research that was focused on managers’ behaviours. We tried to discover the main differences between the real trajectory and perception of managers in the field of two types of management processes. In the first part of the paper there is a theoretical foundation of process management and conclusion...

The present paper is the continuation of the authors’ previous publication on the potential impact of corporate social responsibility on the competitiveness of organizations. The research objective is to show the area of study as the junction of the classic concept of competitiveness and a new business model created out of CSR-focused management se...