Patrycja Zwiech

• University of Szczecin

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the impact of employees’ perception of distributive, procedural, interpersonal and informational justice on their behaviour and attitude in a workplace. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is theoretical and cognitive, grounded in an extensive literature review encompassing theoretical, review, and em...

The aim of the article is to identify the basic areas of work quality and present their characteristics for Poland. The article presents the results of research based on data from Central Statistical Offi ce. The work begins with a theoretical introduction to the quality of work. The next part describes the results of research obtained for Poland f...

Sustainable production can be defined as a means of producing goods and services that, at every stage of the production cycle and the life cycle of a product (sourcing, product design, method of production, confectioning, distribution and disposal) take into account ecological and social aspects to a higher extent than the existing or conventionall...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present approaches to socio-economic inequality in economic theory. Design/methodology/approach: This paper is theoretical in nature. I review relevant literature that addresses the perception of socio-economic inequality. Findings: Three approaches to socio-economic inequality are identified in the course o...

Employees’ perception of justice in performance appraisal systems is an important element of human resources management. Perception of justice directly affects employee motivation and performance, thus the operation of companies and their competitive position. It is necessary that employee appraisal be seen by the staff as fair, because employees t...

Making it easier for employees to maintain work-life balance and to facilitate the combination of different social roles increases job satisfaction. WLB is usually analysed in the context of a conflict between various requirements relating to involvement in one’s work and playing other important life roles. Questionnaire surveys were carried out to...

Multi-criteria methods are an important element used in developing decision support systems aimed at helping the decision-maker choose the optimal decision. It is necessary to define weights for the criteria for which appropriate methods are used. However, it is important to check whether the results obtained by these methods are correlated with ea...

This paper describes theories that attempt to explain the existence of economic inequalities amongsocial groups in the labour market in the context of the doctrine of market segmentation. Thedeterminants of these inequalities are also presented. The paper focuses on the following issues:statistical segmentation, the concept of the internal and exte...

The observed processes of the deepening of social and economic inequalities, in most countries one of the most important sources of tensions on the path to sustainable development, are becoming a challenge both for the cohesion of societies and the European Union. The aim of this study is to show the relationship between social cohesion and social...

The purpose of the article was to divide biological types of households into classes of most similar distributions of expenditures. As a measure of the degree of similarity of distributions D statistic was used, which is the maximum absolute value of the difference between two empirical cumulative distribution functions. On the basis of the value o...

Gender has statistically significant impact on differentiating Poles in terms of the appearance of particular sources of income, and it was proven that the fact that someone is a man or a woman to a considerable and – what seems to be extremely important and surprising – greater and greater extent affect on the main source of income of a given pers...

In the article the degree of similarity between distributions of disposable income per capita in Polish voivodships was determined. The similarity of distributions was measured by metric D and the more similar two distributions were, the smaller value the statistic D had. The classification procedure that was carried out resulted in forming two one...

Today’s mainstream economy takes a neutral position towards the issues of economic inequalities in societies. Economic inequalities are treated as a natural phenomenon in the competition-based market economy. Nevertheless, this neutrality increasingly raises reservations. More and more internationally-acknowledged authors question the foundations o...

The paper considered the question of whether the distribution of disposable income per capita in the Polish voivodships (provinces) is similar. To study this, the authors put appropriate statistical hypotheses and verified using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Conducting this test allowed them to conclude that there are no grounds to assert that the h...

The aim of the study is to examine the strength of the association between the place of residence of the Polish population and their main source of income on the basis of the last two censuses carried out in 2002 and 2011. The study used Pearson chi-square test of independence and Cramer's V coefficient to assess the relationship between the change...

Celem artykulu bylo określenie stopnia podobienstwa rozkladu calkowitych miesiecznych wydatkow na osobe w poszczegolnych wojewodztwach oraz wyodrebnienie wojewodztw najbardziej do siebie pod tym wzgledem podobnych. Wszystkie obliczenia przeprowadzono w oparciu o nieidentyfikowalne dane jednostkowe z badania budzetow gospodarstw domowych przez Glown...

The factor that is most often mentioned as crucial for assessing the quality of professional live is the appropriate wage. Other characteristics of work that describe its attractiveness are no tensions and stress, stability of employment and job matching the skills. The purpose of the article is to answer the question how the educational level of p...

The purpose of the paper was to present a new way of dividing distributions into homogeneous groups and to use it to divide biological types of households into classes of most similar distributions. As a measure of the degree of similarity of distributions λ (lambda) statistic was used, which is based on the maximum absolute value of the difference...

Celem artykułu jest określenie, w jakim stopniu wybrane czynniki (wiek, poziom wykształcenia, płeć oraz miejsce zamieszkania) rzutują na fakt, że dana osoba korzysta z Internetu w celach dokonywania zakupów. W drodze przeprowadzonych badań udowodniono, że wiek, poziom wykształcenia, płeć oraz miejsce zamieszkania są zmiennymi, które mają statystycz...

This article describes the diversification of real income and expenditures among socioeconomic groups. This paper focuses on the analysis of real available income, real expenditures as well as real income surplus over household expenditures among socio-economic groups. The study was carried out from 2000 to 2013. The results show that the groups wi...

The dispersion of household disposable income per capita in each class of residence (i.e. six) was estimated for households in Poland. Then, the dispersion of income between the classes was analysed. The computation was carried out separately for subsequent years from 1998 to 2012. The study shows that the households in Poland are differentiated wi...

The aim of this article is to determine how consumption and prices of food and non-alcoholic beverages affect expenses per capita incurred by Polish households of various sizes. The results of conducted research allow to draw a conclusion that the highest expenses per capita on certain assortment categories are incurred by one-person households and...

The goal of this article is to verify the hypothesis that from 2000 to 2011 the discrepancies between material living standards in the countryside and cities of different sizes blurred in Poland year by year. On the basis of the research conducted it has been determined that over the first decade of the 21st century the discrepancy between the livi...

In the article the variation of expenditures per capita between households of different sizes was estimated for each group of consumer goods and services. For this purpose the classical coefficient of intergroup variation was used as the appropriate measure. The calculations were done separately for seven consecutive years from 2006 to 2012. As the...

The purpose of the article is to compare selected twenty nine countries in the world in terms of emission of air pollutants in relation to their total area and population, and ordering these countries from the best to the worst. A hypothesis was stated that Poland is a region with relatively low emission of air pollutants compared to the number of...

The purpose of this article is to present a method of choosing a location of a new facility and to prove its usefulness in practice. The suggested method can be used to compare several variants of location of a newly established manufacturing facility, distribution centre, retail store, wholesale or warehouse. When a location of a new facility is b...

The objective of this paper is to describe and organise the determinants of vertical gender segregation in the workplace described in the economic theories as well as to evaluate vertical gender segregation in Member States. In order to achieve the said objective, three tasks were performed, namely: showing determinants of vertical gender segregati...

Prezentowana publikacja zawiera zbiór pytań testowych, zadań oraz pytań problemowych do samodzielnego rozwiązywania przez studiujących przedmiot Zarządzanie zasobami ludzkimi (na studiach ekonomicznych i nieekonomicznych). Prezentowana publikacja stanowi uzupełnienie monografii Podstawy zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi przygotowanej przez tych samych...

Celem pracy była analiza porównawcza wybranych miar samozatrudnienia w gospodarkach unijnych. W pracy przeprowadzono analizę porównawczą wybranych mierników samozatrudnienia odzwierciedlających liczebność wybranych populacji samozatrudnionych. Następnie przeprowadzono analizę porównawczą wewnętrznej struktury populacji samozatrudnionych ogółem z uw...

W pracy próbowano odpowiedzieć na pytanie, czy istnieje zależność między PKB per capita a odsetkiem ludności zagrożonej ubóstwem lub wykluczeniem społecznym w krajach Unii Europejskiej. Stwierdzono występowanie zależności negatywnej między tymi zmiennymi. Zróżnicowanie PKB per capita między krajami członkowskimi UE jest znaczne. Rozstęp w badanym o...

Ostatnie lata to w Polsce okres wielkiego boomu edukacyjnego oraz silnego wzrostu aspiracji dotyczących wykształcenia. Czy zjawisko to ma miejsce tylko w Polsce, czy wpisuje się w szerszy kontekst zmian w skali światowej? Jaka jest skala tych zmian w Polsce i w innych krajach unijnych? W poszukiwaniu odpowiedzi na powyższe pytania podjęto się prac,...

Nierównomierność rozkładu dochodów to ważny i złożony problem, który wywiera znaczący wpływ na kształtowanie się procesów społeczno-ekonomicznych. Nierównomierność rozkładu dochodów w krajach unijnych w ostatniej dekadzie zwiększała się. Wynika to z faktu, że osoby o wysokich dochodach zarabiają coraz więcej, a osoby o niskich dochodach nie zwiększ...

The scale of international migration was significant at the entire transition in Poland, however, it increased after 2004 along with Poland's accession to the European Union. It was related to opening labour markets to Polish nationals. At transition in Poland, not only the temporary migration balance was negative but permanent migration balance as...

Integracja europejska ma swoje różne oblicza, w tym społeczne, znajdujące swoje odbicie w celach Wspólnoty i jej działaniach w różnych dziedzinach polityki Unii Europejskiej. Jednym z kluczowych celów jest spójność społeczna. Spójność społeczną Rada Europy zdefiniowała jako całość działań, które starają się wzmocnić zdolność społeczeństwa do zapewn...

This article presents taxonomic measures as instruments, that can be used for a rational division o f the budget o f incentive bonuses in a company. The standardized sum method is one o f multi-dimensional comparative analysis methods. It is utilized to calculate the values o f appropriate taxonomic measures. These values allow to linearly rank peo...

The work was an attempt to answer the question whether there is a relationship between respondents’ opinions on the quality of the health care system in Poland and their class of locality. The chi-square goodness-of-fit test was used to verify relevant statistical hypotheses. And the Cramer’s V ratio was used to examine the strength of relationship...

This article indicates how selected factors connected with human capital affect the value of gross domestic product per capita. The logarithmic method was used to assess the impact of labour productivity and share of people who work on the level of gross do- mestic product per capita. The article shows that in the case of 28 examined countries in t...

This article evaluates the discrepancies in the distribution of household income in selected European States. The article focuses on the analysis of Gini coefficient before and after taxation and social transfers in selected European States as well as it analyses the impact of taxation and social transfers on discrepancies in household income in se...

In the article the structure of households’ expenditures on consumer goods and services was thoroughly analysed. The work was also an attempt to answer the question whether there is a relationship between some factors and the structure of households’ expenditure on consumer goods and services. The chi-square goodness-of-fit test was used to examine...

The paper is aimed at presenting legal regulations imposed by International Labour Organization, the United Nations and the European Union, and regarding gender equality in professional life. Issues relating to discrimination against women on labour market have been addressed by international institutions for over 60 years.

Pierwszą część materiałów dydaktycznych stanowi rozdział dotyczący zasad efektywnej pracy wykładowcy-trenera i studentów w nauczaniu zorganizowanym w systemie e-learningu (nauczania zdalnego). Zagadnienia, jakie poruszono w tej części to: budowanie integracji w grupie w warunkach kursu zdalnego, zasady efektywnej komunikacji na platformie edukacyjn...

Społeczna odpowiedzialność przedsiębiorstwa to koncepcja, zgodnie z którą przedsiębiorstwa dobrowolnie uwzględniają problematykę społeczną i ekologiczną w swojej działalności komercyjnej i stosunkach z zainteresowanymi stronami. Przedsiębiorstwa coraz częściej angażują się w sprawy społeczne i wykorzystują CSR do realnego rozwiązywania problemów. D...

EUROPE 2020 or EU 2020 is a strategy adopted by the European Union for smart and sustainable growth as well as integration. In order to prevent pessimistic scenarios that could lead to the marginalization of its role in the world, the EU has set 5 targets to be met in the scope of employment, innovation, education, social inclusion and environmenta...

Taken professional life into account, the situation of women and men differ considerably, which is proven by research on the situation of female workers in labour markets functioning in the Member States. Women earn less and hold lower positions in organizational hierarchy. They are less often chosen to undergo professional training and face greate...

Prezentowana publikacja zawiera zbiór pytań testowych, zadań oraz pytań problemowych do samodzielnego rozwiązywania przez studiujących przedmiot 'Gospodarowanie kapitałem ludzkim' (na studiach ekonomicznych). W publikacji zaprezentowano także bogaty zestaw danych statystycznych pogrupowanych w 6 częściach, które mogą zostać wykorzystane do wielowym...

Market economy, introduced in Poland in 1989, has changed all management systems to a large extent (the migration management system as well). Most of all, cross-border traffic regulations were subject to liberalization and everyone was given the right to travel abroad freely. However, freedom of mobility achieved by the Poles in the 1990's was not...

Although complex legislation on equal rights for women has come into force in the European Union, providing the legislation on equal rights for women does not automatically entail economic equality. As far as professional life is concerned, major differences are observed with reference to the situation of women and men, which is reflected in the re...

The issue of wage differentiation is still present, although many legislation acts guaranteeing the principle of gender equality in the labour market were voted for. Equal treatments policy in the process of work and creation of rewards system is one of the main pillars of the Union’s law. Legislative activities are, however, insufficient. Differen...

Taken professional career into consideration, situation of women and situation of men differ a lot, which has been proven by numerous research presenting a worse position that women occupy in the labour market as well as factors determining such a state of affairs. Women earn lower salaries and hold lower position in the hierarchy of positions, are...

As far as professional life is concerned, major differences are observed with reference to the situation of women and men, which is reflected in the research indicating that women occupy worse position on the labour market and showing the determinants of such a situation. Women earn less, hold lower positions, receive professional training more sel...

Nowadays, in the enlarged European Union, a considerable debate on the phenomena of legal and illegal migration as well as integration between citizens of the third countries is taking place. The majority of the Member States experience the phenomenon of migration and face challenges connected with integration. Some of these countries, together wit...

Sytuacja kobiet i mężczyzn na rynku pracy jest zróżnicowana – przy czym przeprowadzone analizy wskazują, iż sytuacja kobiet jest dużo gorsza niż sytuacja mężczyzn. W niniejszej publikacji analizowano sytuację kobiet w dziedzinach: aktywności zawodowej, zatrudnienia, segregacji zawodowej, wynagrodzeń, bezrobocia i przedsiębiorczości.

Praca zawiera zbiór zadań, testów oraz przypadków służących do samodzielnego rozwiązywania ich przez studentów i ma na celu zarówno naukę samodzielnego myślenia, jak i nabycie umiejętności praktycznego wykorzystania poznanej wiedzy. Zbiór ten stanowi integralną część podręcznika: Mikroekonomia pod red. Danuty Kopycińskiej, stąd też jego układ jest...