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The aim of the article is to determine the relatedness between the quality of interpersonal relationships, measured by the level of their positivity, with knowledge sharing among members of the top management teams (TMT). The analyses primarily concerned the relatedness between interpersonal relationships and a) the declared individual tendency to share knowledge, b) the motives of knowledge sharing among members of the surveyed teams, c) the forms of knowledge sharing. The empirical basis of the article is a CATI research on a sample of 123 managers who are members of decision-making teams in the furniture industry in Poland. The results obtained suggest that knowledge sharing within management teams is related to the level of positive interpersonal relationships of their members. These relationships strengthen the intrinsic motivation to share knowledge, reducing the importance of extrinsic motivators, as well as foster informal and direct forms of knowledge sharing, reducing the importance of institutionalized forms.

This paper focuses on the liability for public finances discipline violation. The grounds for the liability concerning order description that is inconsistent with the public pro-curement regulations will be indicated, i.e. such that could hinder fair competition. A significant part of the study is devoted to a detailed and broad explanation of the terms used by the legislator in Article 17 Item 1 Point 1 of the Act on Liability for Public Finances Discipline Violation. The attention was focused on presenting the essence of the order description, the nature of fair competition, as well as how the term “could” (mogłoby) should be uńderstood. The study ińcludes ań ańalysis of the ińdicated for-mulations that lead to broad and variously argued conclusions regarding the necessity and consequences of the existence of the presented regulations, as well as their impact in terms of legal certainty, implementation of public procurement and participation of the contracting authority in the procedure in this regard.

The article concerns the functioning of the European Union Monitoring Mission EUMM Georgia in the years 2008-2019. The EUMM mission was presented as a tool to guarantee the sustainability of the Sarkozy-Medvedev agreement. It is considered to be crucial to decide what results led to the functioning of the Mission and to determine whether the current situation in the region allows to state that the objectives of the Mission have been achieved and its further occurrence is justified. The article includes the issue of the negative impact exerted by the limited nature of the mission’s mandate on the practical activities of observers for the stabilization and normalization of post-conflict situations. The balance sheet of the Mission’s activity and perspectives of its functioning were presented in the form of a scenario of future events.

Crimes against public safety are mainly crimes involving exposure to danger. The subject of protection is human life, health of many people or property of large sizes. One of the most common crimes against public safety is causing a fire and bringing the danger of an event threatening the above-mentioned goods. The trend of adjudicating non-custodial penalties is growing. The upcoming legislative changes are expected to raise the penalties for this category of crimes.

W obliczu nagłych zjawisk kryzysowych kadra zarządzająca często działa w pośpiechu i podejmuje nieplanowane decyzje w celu ochrony przedsiębiorstwa przed negatywnymi skutkami kryzysu. Również kryzys związany z wybuchem epidemii koronawirusa i zamknięciem większości sektorów zmusił przedsiębiorstwa do poszukiwania szybkich sposobów radzenia sobie w trudnym czasie. Artykuł przedstawia badania dotyczące pierwszych reakcji i decyzji menedżerskich podjętych po zamknięciu polskiej gospodarki, ze wskazaniem, które z nich okazały się najbardziej istotne dla przetrwania przedsiębiorstw. Na początku opracowania zaprezentowano podstawy teoretyczne, w których opisano, jakie działania podejmowane były w przedsiębiorstwach na świecie w czasie poprzednich kryzysów. Pozwoliło to na zidentyfikowanie listy najczęstszych decyzji i przygotowanie kwestionariusza. Następnie przedstawiono wyniki badań ankietowych przeprowadzonych wśród kadry zarządzającej 178 przedsiębiorstw w Polsce wskazujących, jakie decyzje były podejmowane najczęściej i które z nich postrzegano jako warunkujące przetrwanie.

The monograph of Maria Janoszka, entitled The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki and selected novels from the 20th century (Fowles--Rosendorfer-Gretkowska) is the first attempt to tackle the problem suggested by the title. Janoszka tries to show the unusual modernity of Potocki’s masterpiece. She researches the intertextual relations between The Manuscript and three 20th- -century novels (The Magus, The Architect of Ruins, Rekopis nieodnaleziony, czyli zalety szubienic). The author focuses on the composition of works, genre and literary conventions. She also analyze the construction of the protagonist and novel spaces. The book is well documented and it has been written in an interesting way, making the monograph an incentive to continue research on Potocki’s masterpiece, which is a pioneering and still inspiring novel.

In blurred poems of „Wirydarz poetycki” there is a strong power of sexual desire ant this is the power that rules the human world. There is no such thing as soul in human. They only have bodies that are almost identical to the intimate parts. „Picture is domain of art, literality is domain of pornography” – there in no need to argue with that words of Jerzy Bartminski. When taking them as most general guide in lecture of blurred poems, we can find the guide which show sus literary culture of this poems.

The article discusses problems involved in the translation of Karol Wojtyla’s poetry into English, including the circumstances of obtaining by the translator (Jerzy Pietrkiewicz) legal rights to the texts, deciding the translational techniques applied in the process of interlinguistic transfer, as well as other difficulties reported by the translator during his work on the first volume of English poetry by John Paul II.

The article presents the characteristics of developing health-promoting skills and attitudes relating to oral hygiene based on an analysis of the literature. Epidemiological data and risk factors for oral cancer will then be described. The last part of the text will present an analysis of the research on the state of oral hygiene in children and adults in Poland. The aim of the article is to emphasize that the dissemination of knowledge in the field of oral hygiene may in effect contribute to the improvement of health-promoting behaviours, which in consequence may prevent the development of cancer in the oral cavity.

This article concerns the modern tourist market in Kazakhstan. I focused to a large extent on the indications of the tourist industry’s characteristics in this country as well as the potential chances and threats that may be encountered in this area of the economy. The conclusions contained in the publication were based not only on source materials, but also on the author’s personal observations and memories of friends of the traveler. The aim of the article was to draw attention to the unusual tourism richness that can be observed by traveling through this country of Central Asia, as well as changing the stereotypical view of Kazakhstan.

Rec.: „Tu jestem / zamieszkuje wlasne zycie”. Studia i szkice o tworczości Anny Frajlich, pod redakcją Wojciecha Ligezy i Jolanty Pasterskiej, Wydawnictwo Ksiegarnia Akademicka, Krakow 2018, 434 ss.

Rec.: Cordelia Fine, “Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences”, Icon Books, Londyn 2011, 338 ss.

Post-Soviet area in the process of change [book review Przemiany polityczno-społeczne w przestrzeni poradzieckiej]

Security problems of the Far East and the Pacific – report from the 5th International Asian Congress, Toruń, May 9–11, 2018

Report from conference „Researching and measuring political leadership”, Warsaw, June 12, 2018

Power of China and education in various perspectives – report on the selected panels of the V International Asian Congress