Sabina Kubiciel - Lodzińska

• PhD
• Professor (Assistant) at Opole University of Technology

Purpose Amidst dynamic global changes, migrant workforce dynamics have become complex due to voluntary and forced migrations, coupled with talent competition. Paradoxically, many migrants experience deskilling and brain waste in host countries. To optimize migrant skills for enhanced job performance in fluctuating organizational and environmental c...

Objective: The objective of the article is to examine potential variations among migrants from Ukraine concerning their entrepreneurial intention, considering the nature of migration (economic or forced) and their motherhood. Research Design & Methods: In May 2023, a quantitative study surveyed 404 Ukrainian women in Poland. Utilising a research pa...

The arrival of Ukrainian refugees in the European Union (EU) has reignited debates about the accessibility of labour markets, deskilling and underemployment. The Ukrainian case is especially significant because most refugees are highly skilled women and the implementation of the EU's temporary protection directive has provided them with immediate a...

In Poland, the Ukrainian community, comprising both economic immigrants and war refugees - is becoming an increasingly significant contributor to the workforce. The objective of this paper is to analyse and compare the labour market situation of both categories. The research problem addressed is to determine the extent of the differences between th...

Drawing on recent original qualitative research, this paper focuses on the under-researched area of highly skilled migration in the relatively new migratory context of Ukrainian migrants to Poland. Commonly, migrants from Ukraine have been found to work in basic low-paid jobs and in an informal, non-regulated capacity; thus, often falling prey to p...

Objective: The objective of the article is to assess whether in Poland, Ukrainian war refugees exhibit more entrepreneurial intention than Ukrainian pre-war economic migrants. Research Design & Methods: This article uses data from a panel study conducted in 2022 and 2023, encompassing 357 (1st wave) and 481 Ukrainian war refugees and pre-war econom...

Streszczenie: Wobec zwiększającej się liczby obcokrajowców przybywających okresowo lub na stałe do województwa opolskiego, kluczowe jest poznanie opinii opolan dotyczących obecności cudzoziemców w regionie. Dlatego zdecydowano się na przeprowadzenie badania "Postawy mieszkańców województwa opolskiego wobec cudzoziemców" Zrealizowane zostało w okres...

Migration processes have emerged as crucial social, political, and economic concerns, impacting societies, industries, and organisations. The challenge lies in effectively leveraging immigrants' resources. This research aims to determine how AI tools can support matching migrants' skills with labour markets in host countries. We propose the applica...

home page » E-mentor nr 5 (102) / 2023 » trendy w zarządzaniu » Kontrakt psychologiczny: analiza różnic między ukraińskimi imigrantami ekonomicznymi a uchodźcami w polskich przedsiębiorstwachAAA Kontrakt psychologiczny: analiza różnic między ukraińskimi imigrantami ekonomicznymi a uchodźcami w polskich przedsiębiorstwach Jolanta Maj, Maciej Filipow...

Purpose: This paper reviews the literature on migrants in elderly care regarding their involvement in the host country's labour market. The study aimed to find the most commonly used research methods and what topics are popular when studying this phenomenon. It is needed because of the ageing of the population, particularly in Europe, and the growi...

In a relatively brief timeframe, Poland has witnessed a substantial increase in immigration, transitioning from predominantly an emigration country to one characterised by both emigration and immigration. Undoubtedly, with the outbreak of war in Ukraine, the need to implement integration measures has become even more critical. However, the problem...

Before full‐scale war broke out in 2022, over 1 million Ukrainians resided legally in Poland. Within weeks of Russia's aggression, around 1.5 million new Ukrainian forced migrants had arrived, many of whom remain in Poland. As of September 2023, 970,000 Ukrainian refugees were still in Poland, where they enjoyed temporary protection status. This pa...

Migrant workers, mainly from Ukraine, are increasingly present in Poland. However, this is not a homogeneous group. We can distinguish between pre-war immigrants, whose arrival in Poland was voluntary, and Ukrainian refugees, who were forced to migrate by the war. The aim of this article is to determine whether pre-war immigrants and refugees diffe...

CEL NAUKOWY: Uzyskanie wiedzy w zakresie możliwości wykorzystania kwalifikacji uchodźców z Ukrainy na polskim rynku pracy. Artykuł uzupełnia lukę badawczą odnoszącą się do zagadnień związanych z zatrudnieniem migrantów wojennych zgodnie z posiadanym przez nich wykształceniem. Wskazuje na wyzwania w tym zakresie. To zupełnie nowa perspektywa poznawc...

W artykule omówiono wyniki czterech edycji badania opinii przeprowadzonego wśród Polaków, które dotyczyło przyjmowania migrantów wojennych z Ukrainy oraz odnosiło się do zaangażowania się w pomoc dla nich. Zostało zrealizowane na panelu badawczym w dniach: 24.02.2022 (N=1000), 4.03.2022 (N=1653), 24.05.2022 (N=1783) oraz 21.10.2022 (N=1774). Pokaza...

On February 24, 2022 Russian invaded Ukraine and the world we know changed. Over the following couple of weeks over 1,4 million refugees came to Poland, which till that time had almost no experiences in handling refugees, let alone in such quantities. In order to help the refugees a special law was passed, which allowed them to immediately start wo...

Purpose: The research aimed to identify what causes some highly skilled migrants from Ukraine to work according to their qualifications and others work below their qualifications. Design/methodology/approach: This article discusses the results of a survey conducted among 248 highly skilled economic migrants from Ukraine working in Poland. Two group...

Objective: The article aims to identify market entrance barriers faced by migrant entrepreneurs and reasons for the attractiveness of specific places when starting a business in so-called peripheral regions. Research Design & Methods: This article presents the results of a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews, for which 21 migrant...

Badanie „Problemy i wyzwania w zakresie integracji imigrantów w województwie opolskim. Perspektywa cudzoziemców" zrealizowano w okresie od listopada do grudnia 2022 r. ich przeprowadzenie zakładano na próbie 300 imigrantów, w tym 150 migrantów przedwojennych z Ukrainy oraz 150 uchodźców z Ukrainy mieszkających w województwie opolskim. W trakcie rea...

W rozdziale przedstawiono wybrane wyniki badania, które zostało przeprowadzone wśród mieszkańców województwa opolskiego, a dotyczyło ich postaw wobec imigrantów. Ich celem było m.in. określenie, czy w imigracji widzą oni szansę, poznanie obaw związanych ze zwiększającą się liczbą imigrantów, ustalenie, jakich praw chcieliby dla przybyszów i w jakic...

The employment of migrants in senior care is almost unexplored in Poland, so it is a completely new area for researchers. The article aims to fill a research gap of knowledge concerning the nature of employment of immigrants in senior care, the attitudes of foreigners towards this employment, and their plans for the future. It discusses selected re...

During the first (spring 2020) and second wave (autumn 2020) of the COVID-19 pandemic, Poland was among the countries with the strictest regulation, lockdown, and national quarantine. The pandemic has significantly influenced the situation of enterprises, especially for immigrants. The main aim and contribution of this paper is the analysis of the...

This paper compares the character of work of migrant women and men in elderly care in Poland. Elderly care is provided mainly by migrant women. Men who work in this sector are in a clear minority. In the presented research a qualitative content analysis has been used. The paper discusses selected results of in-depth interviews conducted among 42 im...

Pomimo rosnącego znaczenia agencji zatrudnienia w rekrutacji cudzoziemców, w szczególności Ukraińców wiedza o ich roli w tym procesie jest w Polsce stosunkowo mała. Badanie omówione w niniejszym rozdziale uzupełnia tę lukę.

Wobec zwiększającej się liczby obcokrajowców przybywających okresowo lub na stałe w województwie opolskim, kluczowe jest poznanie opinii Opolan dotyczących obecności cudzoziemców w regionie. Dlatego zdecydowano się na przeprowadzenie badań dotyczących postaw mieszkańców województwa opolskiego wobec imigrantów. Badanie zostało sfinansowane przez Sam...

This article presents the results of a qualitative study, carried out using semi-structured interviews, conducted with migrant entrepreneurs in Opolskie province. The analysis of the interviews was done within the framework of the grounded theory. The analysis was performed using open coding and axial coding. It fills the research gap which relates...

The aim of the article is to compare the effectiveness of the snowball sampling and Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) for research on migrants working in elderly care. Analyses are based on results of in-depth semi-structured individual interviews conducted among 42 migrants working as caregivers in the Opole region (Poland). This group can be consi...

This paper presents the influx of migrants into the elderly care sector in Poland, which, until recently, has been perceived as a country that “exports” caregivers. It describes the results of 31 individual in-depth interviews conducted with immigrant women who take care of elderly in Poland. The purpose of the study was to determine the profile of...

Celem artykułu jest prezentacja wybranych wyników badań IDI przeprowadzonych wśród 11 mężczyzn, cudzoziemców pracujących w województwie opolskim charakterze opiekunów osób starszych. Praca w tej sferze podejmowana jest głównie przez kobiety-migrantki. Mężczyźni są obecni w tym sektorze w zdecydowanej mniejszości. Dlatego artykuł stanowi uzupełnieni...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to present the employers' perception of challenges and opportunities resulting from the presence of immigrants on the labour market, and to show how experience in employing immigrants (or the lack of it) influences the employers' perception of benefits and challenges of having a cultural diverse workforce. De...

Objective: The main goal of the paper is to assess the degree of intent to become entrepreneurial, and whether this intent influences perceived barriers and hindrances self-employment. Research Design & Methods: For the purpose of the study, we employed the approach of grounded theory. The sample included 42 immigrants from the care sector chosen i...

Celem książki pt. „Przedsiębiorczość imigrantów w Polsce. Podejścia i wyzwania w prowadzeniu badań" jest przegląd najważniejszych zagadnień badawczych, problemów metodologicznych w zakresie realizacji badań nad przedsiębiorczością migrantów, próba dostosowania istniejących ram metodycznych i koncepcyjnych do polskiej specyfiki oraz uporządkowanie t...

Objective: For a long time Poland has been perceived as a rather homogenous society. However, cultural diversity and differences started to become visible after 1989 and have gained on importance since then. Combined with an increasing shortage of native workforce, the question of immigrants’ employment by Polish organisations becomes a burning iss...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the employment costs and advantages of employing a foreign labour force. The analysis was made based on the dual labour market theory, whereas employers were divided into employers of foreigners in occupations from the primary and secondary labour market. The analysis was based on 263 semi-structured inte...

The article presents statistical data taking into account the inflow of employees from abroad, in particular from Ukraine to Poland, including those settling in the Opole Voivodeship. It also discusses selected results of a survey conducted in the Opole region among 263 employers, concerning the recruitment of foreigners. The survey was aimed, inte...

The article describes the results of 42 individual in-depth interviews conducted with foreigners that take care of elderly people. The sampling of respondents was done by using the snowball method and Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS). The purpose of the study was to determine the profile of an immigrant taking up work in the elderly care sector, in...

The paper features a discussion on selected results of research conducted among 42 migrants working as elderly caregivers. The purpose of the research was to obtain information about the scope of provided care, among others: running the home, medical help, accompanying an elderly person. The studies were of exploratory nature, based on individual i...

The stakeholder approach is one of the main concepts in management science and practice. However, as previous research shows, only individual Polish organisations conduct stakeholder mapping. Furthermore, in general only individual organisations conduct stakeholder analysis in regards to diversity management. Therefore, it has been decided to deter...

The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to the need of taking into account the existence of dual labor markets in the majority of developed countries when analyzing research results on labor immigration. The countries most affected with this duality are the ones where immigration is still on the increase; amongst other Central and Eastern Eu...

Raport składa się z pięciu rozdziałów. Pierwszy rozpoczęto od zdefiniowania podstawowych pojęć związanych z przedsiębiorczością, w tym w szczególności skoncentrowano się na definicjach odnoszących się do prowadzenia działalności gospodarczej przez imigrantów (1.1). Następnie zaprezentowano wybrane dane statystyczne odnoszące się do przedsiębiorczoś...

This paper discusses selected results of studies carried out among employers from the Opolskie Voivodeship: a region with an exceptional scale of labour emigration in Poland that is struggling with an increasingly palpable shortage of workers. The study included 263 employers and was carried out in late 2014 and in early 2015. It involved managers,...

W pracy omówiono wybrane wyniki badań przeprowadzonych wśród pracodawców z województwa opolskiego - regionu charakteryzującego się wyjątkową skalą emigracji zarobkowej w Polsce, który zmaga się z coraz wyraźniejszym niedoborem pracowników. Badanie zrealizowano pod koniec 2014 r. i na początku 2015 r., wzięło w nim udział 263 pracodawców. Uczestnicz...

The paper discusses selected results of a telephone in-depth interview (TDI) study conducted among 20 Polish companies employing foreigners. The nature of the study was exploratory and it was aimed at detailing the current knowledge about the help the employers offer to foreign employees and the costs of it for the company. The analysis was made ta...

Konferencja pt. Regionalny wymiar procesów migracyjnych jest siódmą z kolei konferencją organizowaną przez KBM PAN i ma na celu nie tylko prezentację stanu badań migracyjnych, ale także integrację interdyscyplinarnego środowiska badaczy migracji. W 2018 r. tematem przewodnim konferencji będzie regionalny kontekst zjawisk migracyjnych, uwzględniając...

In Poland, as in other developed countries with an aging population, three main drivers of immigration can be identified: structural mismatch between supply and demand, the need to recruit younger employees and to recruit people to take care of certain jobs such as care for the elderly. The aim of the paper is to discuss selected research results o...

Badanie Wielokulturowość w przedsiębiorstwach w Polsce. Zatrudnianie cudzoziemców w polskich przedsiębiorstwach realizowane było w okresie od czerwca 2017 do kwietnia 2018 roku przez dr Jolantę Maj oraz dr Sabinę Kubiciel – Lodzińską. W ramach projektu zrealizowane zostały telefoniczne wywiady pogłębione z 20 przedsiębiorstwami zatrudniającymi cudz...

The subject of the studies presented in the article was an assessment of the demand for employment of foreigners in Polish companies (based in the Opole Voivodeship). It involved CAWI and PAPI research. In 2007-2008, the research was conducted among 91 employers employing foreign workforce and it was carried out for the second time in 2014-2015 wit...

Poland is still mostly a country of emigration, which features a substantial degree of departures. For many years now the rate of emigration continues to amount to approx. 2 million people. At the end of 2015, nearly 2.4 million Polish citizens resided abroad. Simultaneously, there is substantial transformation in the demographic structure of emigr...

The following paper discusses selected results of a survey conducted among 263 entrepreneurs from the Opole Voivodeship, which concerned the employment of foreigners. One of the goals of the analysis was to determine whether and by how much wages of immigrants differ from the salary earned by the native workforce. It was determined, that the wages...

Purpose: The subject of the studies presented in the article was an assessment of the demand for employment of foreigners in companies based in Opole Voivodship. They aim was to establish the reasons which have made, or could make, them employ foreign workforce; to obtain information on the benefits and difficulties connected with using foreign wor...

Economic migration to Poland is becoming more important. The aim of the article is to show immigration, as a phenomenon that should be taken into account in regional and local development strategies. This is a new element that can have a significant impact on the transformation of certain areas. As example has been choosen Opolskie Voivodeship. The...

The paper discusses selected results of a study carried out among 263 enterprises in the Opole Province. The study involved, among others, non-salary employment conditions the enterprises offer or would be willing to offer to foreigners. These included e.g. housing, meals, payment for travel costs. The issue of non-salary employment conditions is p...

The significance of wage earning immigration is on the rise in Poland today. This results, among others, from the progressing segmentation of the labor market, deepening of unfavourable demographic changes, changes in society’s aspirations and emigrating abroad. The subject of the studies presented in this monograph was an assessment of the demand...

Streszczenie: Celem artykułu jest prezentacja wybranych wyników badań przeprowadzo-nych w województwie opolskim wśród obcokrajowców podejmujących czasowe zatrud-nienie w regionie oraz cudzoziemców studiujących na opolskich uczelniach. Przeprowa-dzone w obu grupach respondentów badania miały m.in. za zadanie ustalenie perspektyw dotyczących pobytu c...

This article presents selected results from a survey conducted in 2014 and 2015 in the Province of Opole, among 263 entrepreneurs representing companies from different sectors which varied due to the number of employees and the labour market segment. Organisations with experience in employing a foreign workforce as well as those who had not previou...

STABILIZATION OF EMPLOYEES RESOURCES IN OPOLSKIE VOIVODESHIP IN THE CONTEXT OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHAL-LENGE – UNDERTAKEN ACTIVITIES Summary Unfavorable demographic changes cause that Poland faces a need for action to secure in the future sufficient and suitably qualified labor force. The CSO forecast, for the years 2014 – 2050, shows that the greatest...

Until recently Poland has been considered a country to emigrate from. However, the situation is now beginning to change, and Poland is becoming an immigration country. This also refers to student migration. Polish universities are becoming increasingly attractive to foreign students, who are mainly of Ukrainian origin. They only began to promote th...

Nowadays, in the globalising world of dynamically growing economies, the enterprises that wish to stay competitive on the local, but above all the nation- al and the international market, need to take the path of continuous develop- ment and aim to implement innovative solutions that will allow them to gain or maintain their competitive advantage....

FOREIGN STUDENTS IN POLAND – THEIR PRESENCE IN THE LABOUR MARKET AND EXPENDITURE (ACCORDING TO THE RESEACH FROM OPOLE PROVINCE) Summary The purpose of this article is to present selected results of a study, which was conducted among foreigners studying at universities in Opole Province. The research was run between 82 people, among whom 91.5% were...

The aim of the work is to point to possibilities of implementation of alternating education in Opole Province. The author proposes frameworks of cooperation between schools and business, as well as formal and recommended principles relating to establishment of an institution designed to run this teaching system in the region. The report consists of...

The purpose of this article is to present selected results of a study, which was conducted among foreigners studying at universities in Opole Province. The research was run between 82 people, among whom 91.5% were students from countries outside the EU (most of them were Ukraini-ans), and 8.5% were students from countries outside the EU. During the...

Czy możliwe jest tworzenie polityki (i )migracyjnej na poziomie regionalnym? Do tej pory o politykach migracyjnych mówiło się najczęściej analizując je w skali europejskiej lub ogólnokrajowej. Niewykluczone jednak, że zadania z tego zakresu należałoby także wypracowywać na poziomie regionalnym. Wynika to chociażby ze specyfiki pewnych obszarów, a t...

Blocking and stimulating factors of the employment of foreigners in Poland in the opinion of employers and foreign workers (findings from research conducted in the Opole Voivodeship) In view of the challenges faced by the Polish labour market and the growing role of foreign labour force, it seems to be necessary to verify the factors stimulating a...

The publication entitled Third-Country Nationals in Poland – The Scale of Influx, the Problems of Integration and the Settlement Perspectives is the effect of the research carried out within the project “Establishment of the Assistance Systems Supporting Integration as a Result of Complex Research of the Selected Case Studies of Third-Country Natio...

The wages of foreigners working legally in Poland (on the example of Opole Province) The aim of this article is to discuss selected results of research con-ducted in Opole Province among foreigners working legally in Poland. One of the key tasks was to establish the salaries earned by foreigners taking up regular employment. Respondents were divide...

The aim of the monograph entitled Wage-Earning Immigration Into Opole Province. The Scale, Conditions and Prospects is to establish factors which are decisive to taking up employment by foreigners in Poland and in Opole Province, as well as to find out about the work conditions and wages, and also hindrances to finding employment in Poland. The res...

W artykule zaprezentowano wybrane wyniki badań przeprowadzonych na uczelniach w województwie opolskim wśród zagranicznych studentów. Objęły cudzoziemców podejmujących naukę w pełnym cyklu na studiach licencjackich lub magisterskich. Temat ten uznano za istotny ze względu na niż demograficzny i rosnące zainteresowanie opolskich szkół wyższych rekrut...

Rynek pracy w województwie opolskim ulega przemianom. Wynikają one m.in. z trwającej już od szeregu lat emigracji zarobkowej, coraz bardziej zauważalnej dualizacji rynku pracy oraz postępujących przemian w wykształceniu społeczeństwa. Konsekwencją tych zmian są niedobory strukturalne na rynku pracy. W związku z tym w województwie opolskim obserwowa...

In the Opole Voivodeship is increasing interest in hiring foreigners, which is apparent even in the increasing number of issued work permits. It appears that the impact on it have three reasons. The first is the emigration of inhabitants of the region, the second – the division of labour market on two sectors – primary and secondary, and the third...