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Employee engagement has become a buzz word in the management circles. The reason is the outcomes of employee engagement such as employee job performance and organizational financial performance. Universities have a fundamental segment in the society because they shape the students with education. This study unearths an empirical as well as a population gap that there is no empirical evidence between the relationship between organizational culture and employee engagement in the public universities in the Sri Lankan context. Identified research gap was bridged with a quantitative study, and the unit of analysis is individual (i.e., lecturers in the Sri Lankan public universities). The type of investigation is correlational. This cross-sectional study was done with minimum researcher interference in a non-contrived study setting.

Today’s business environments are described as very highly competitive and dynamic. To be successful in these uncertain environments, health care organizations must be agile in order to change their strategies and actions. Moreover, achieving success is related to developing the innovative capacity of an organization. The purpose of this research is to test the link between agility capabilities and innovation process in healthcare organizations in Western of Turkey. Based on a quantitative study with a sample of 169 nurse managers from the healthcare organization, the hypothesized relationships were verified. The data were analysed with SPSS. The results showed that there is a posi-tive link between agility capabilities (competency, responsiveness, flexibility and quickness) and process innovation. The promotion and development of main capabilities of organization’s agility can have a positive effect on innovation.

The need for organizations to adapt to constant change means the challenges of implementing an agile strategy. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to analyze the role of agile women leadership and team effectiveness by looking into the mediating effect of interpersonal trust based on a cross-sectional quantitative study with a sample of 269 employees from Poland and Turkey. Questionnaires were distributed to individuals in companies having women leaders or managers. The three questionnaires required the respondents to answer questions regarding the perception of agile leadership, trust and team effectiveness. By using SPSS, demographics, descriptive statistics and tests of normality were determined. Smart PLS version 3.0 was used for confirmatory factor analysis, internal accuracy and validity estimates, hypothesis checking and mediation testing. Results of PLS-SEM indicated interpersonal trust has a full mediation role between agile women leadership in shaping team effectiveness. The population of this study are working for organizations of just two countries; hence, the generalizability of the findings to other settings is unknown. Our findings contribute to the literature on women agile leadership and team effectiveness by demonstrating how the growth in trust to managers contributes to the emergence of team effectiveness and the agile leadership trend over time. This study will therefore contribute to the understanding of organized teams’ effectiveness in the perspective of agile women leadership and trust of supervisors.

The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the mental health of employees. Deterioration of the well-being of workers is also caused by changes in the working environment. Remote working can affect both social interactions and job satisfaction. The purpose of the study is to examine what factors influence job satisfaction in the context of remote work caused by a pandemic. The study analyses whether employee relations and interpersonal trust are related to the level of perceived job satisfaction. The investigation started with a literature review and then research hypotheses have been formulated. Based on an empirical study, carried out on a sample of 220 IT employees during the pandemic, an analysis of the mediating role of trust in links between employee relations and perceived job satisfaction was conducted. The current study found that positive employee relations contribute to the level of job satisfaction. Additionally, trust is an important factor that mediates these relationships. Based on the results of the research, it was possible to describe the mechanism of shaping a supportive work environment during a pandemic.

PURPOSE: The present study endeavors to concentrate on the role of perceived leadership support in fostering employee engagement. Specifically, the study considers the social media contribution in this relationship. The mediating role of social media and the links between perceived leadership support and employee engagement are also discussed., DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The investigation begins with a review of literature in the context of organizations. The data are based on a cross-sectional structured questionnaire for a cohort of 167 respondents form the Polish and Sri Lankan banking sector and was used to verify the research hypotheses. The responses were examined using mediation analysis with bootstrapping., FINDINGS: Results from the study indicate that social media partially mediates the relationship between perceived leadership support and employee engagement. The study demonstrates the growing need for better use of social media in developing a positive perception of leadership support to build employee engagement., IMPLICATIONS: Implications of these findings for organizations are discussed. The study contributes to the understanding and value of how leadership perception affects organizational outcomes., ORIGINALITY/VALUE: This study provides insight into the role of social media in facilitating leadership support to enhance employee engagement., peer-reviewed

Goal – The aim of the article is to assess the scope and degree of reporting information about intellectual capital in the annual reports of the largest companies.Research methodology – The research study comprises all the companies listed in the Warsaw Stock Exchange Index WIG 20. The research is based on the method of the analysis of the contents of activity reports of the researched companies and on the method of morphological analysis and descriptive analysis.Score – On the basis of the analysis of annual reports of 20 companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange WIG-20, the following thesis was verified: despite the lack of specific solutions regarding the measurement and presentation of intellectual capital, enterprises report its elements in the annual report. The analysis of the contents of the reports shows that enterprises present a lot of information that create and develop the company's intellectual capital. The lack of the integrated report standard causes that the financial and non-financial information is presented in various ways and it appears in different elements of the report.Originality/value – On the basis of the research results, the method of intellectual capital diagnosis were proposed.

Inspiracją do napisania artykułu było zdarzenie, jakie miało miejsce na początku 2016 r. W lutym 2016 roku prokurator Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej zabrał z domu Marii Kiszczak dokumenty, które podlegały przekazaniu do IPN. Czynności podjęto w ramach wszczętego w 2015 r. śledztwa ws. ukrycia przez osobę nieuprawnioną dokumentów podlegających przekazaniu IPN. Listy nie były oryginałami, a jedynie spisanymi na maszynie, prawdopodobnie przez adresata, kopiami, część posiadała także urzędową sygnaturę wpływu do ministerstwa. Niektóre z oryginałów, co wnioskować można po sposobie zapisu kopii, pisana była maszynowo i jedynie odręcznie podpisywana przez adresatów. Zewnętrzna postać listów wskazywała na to, że nie miały charakteru prywatnego. IPN upublicznił treść wszystkich listów, jako znajdujących się w archiwum, jednak prasa (sensu largo) zdecydowała się omawiać tylko te, dotyczące osób, które moglibyśmy kwalifi kować do kategorii antykomunistycznych autorytetów moralnych części społeczeństwa polskiego

Innovation fosters sustainable management and allows managers to achieve a competitive advantage. Understanding the mechanisms that explain innovation&rsquo, s antecedents provides an important contribution to theory and practice. The purpose of this study was to assess the importance of human resources (HR) practices in developing trust-based cooperation, which facilitates organizational innovation. Using the foundation of the Shea and Guzzo model, the roles of HR mechanisms were investigated. This study analyzes how effective cooperation can increase innovation and how certain HR practices can help to nurture a trust-based work environment. The conceptual model was developed by drawing on social exchange theory (SET). An empirical analysis of the results of a survey conducted on telecommunications companies (n = 175) aimed to verify the conceptual model. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the data. The findings indicated that competency development opportunities, team interdependence, and group rewards were the most significant determinants of interpersonal trust. As a consequence, a trust-based team generates effective cooperation, and as a result organizational innovation is strengthened. This study was based on large-scale survey data and provides a comprehensive outlook on how to promote organizational innovation through HR practices. This is the first study linking HR practices with trust, collaboration, and innovation.

Purpose – this article aims to examine how teamwork cooperation mediates the relationship between interpersonal trust and tacit knowledge transfer. Research methodology – the paper uses data obtained from a survey conducted on 175 employees from the telecommunications sector. The multiplied regression method was applied to analyse the data according to the mediation analysis. Findings – the findings show that interpersonal trust predicts tacit knowledge transfer and team cooperation mediates this relationship. The results indicate the importance of nurturing positive, trusting relations among employees in organisations and the necessity of working interactions. Research limitations – the limitation of this research is related to the relatively small research sample. Further research could be conducted on a higher number of respondents and could cover different sectors. Additional development of presented research might include cross-cultural analysis. Originality/Value – this paper contributes to the literature of management by providing the empirical confirmation of the SET-based model that concerns the mechanism of tacit knowledge transfer. The practical implications highlight the importance of common collaborative experience and interpersonal trust that facilitates trust among co-workers and consequently influences tacit knowledge transfer. Keywords: trust, tacit knowledge, knowledge transfer, knowledge management

In economic activity of all entities on the market, knowledge and skills are of great importance, since they allow entrepreneurs to properly use the potential of various material and non‑material resources. The determinant of success is, among others, human capital, both the owner’s and the employees’. The statistical data confirm an increasing education level of the self‑employed. The entrepreneurs who are university graduates play the most important role in creating work places. Moreover, thanks to their education, the entrepreneurs’ actions are more effective in terms of maintaining and developing the activity which they conduct. The growing problem of acquiring employees with adequate qualifications is becoming a barrier to the development of company

Since 1984, there have been regulations in the Polish press law under which the publication of verbatim statements of a person provided to the press depends on the consent of the person who made such a statement (authorization). These statements may have a creative nature on many occasions which is subject to the regimen of copyright.The scientific purpose of the article focuses on the problem of the influence of regulations on authorization adopted in 2007 on the right to the paternity of a work. The author regards as creativity, under certain conditions, not only a press article but also original statements made to the press. Thus, the specified problem concerns the borderline area between the press law and the copyright.An analysis of regulations which were in force until 2007, including an analysis of the legal status of statements that are subject to authorization and analysis of changes introduced to the authorization law in 2007 together with analysis of the legal status of statements subject to authorization will be used to solve the problem. The author indicates, moreover, circumstances which must be present for a statement made to the press to be regarded as a work protected by copyright and discusses the right to the paternity of the work in the context of statements made to the press. The author uses the dogmatic and legal historical method and the method of case law analysis.In the author’s opinion, the introduced changes consolidate the copyright of the person making a statement to the press and if they use the rights to authorization they are entitled to.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) provides the contribution of business to the implementation of sustainable development enabling to achieve a balance between business effectiveness, as well as the social interests and environmental protection. The CSR report presents the results of economic and social activities of enterprise. The CSR report creates the possibility of evaluation of the enterprise achievements in the context of financial and non-financial expectations of stakeholders different from financial capital providers. The aim of the paper is to present the role and importance of CSR reporting based on international standards and guidelines as well as to identify the main evaluation criteria. The analysis of the contents of the CSR reports submitted to the Competition CSR Report in the years of 2011–2016 shows what tools and key performance indicators are used. On the basis of the research results, the method of assessment of the CSR activities were proposed. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/bm.2018.21

The purpose of this paper is to examine if there are links between interpersonal trust and competences, relations and cooperation in Polish telecom companies. It examines what factors affect trust in coworkers and managers in sustainable organizations. The paper surveys a sample of 175 employees of telecom companies in Poland by means of a questionnaire. The results indicate that the competences, relations and cooperation are related to interpersonal trust. Regression analysis showed that the competences and relations predict a significant variance in trust amongst coworkers. Additionally, cooperation contributes to prediction of trust in mangers. Given the importance of trust in sustainable organizations, a better comprehension of what factors are related to team confidence provides valuable information for stakeholders. The results provide valuable clues how to improve interpersonal trust in sustainable organizations.