Reflections about Contemporary Management

This monograph focuses on reflective exploration of the contemporary approach to management and organizational humanism, and its dilemmas, mainly in Poland but referred to the international works devoted to management science. An increased mindfulness in the life of the man of the 21st century, postulated in social sciences, cannot be omitted in management processes. Its role therein is not only to solve problems, but to lead to conscious examination of the nature and substance of phenomena, to deepened considerations of the conditions and consequences of the preached ideas, the opinions expressed, and the actions taken. These issues are among those poorly recognized in the world literature, and this monograph attempts to address them to some extent.

Barbara Kożuch is Professor of Economic Sciences at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and specialist in Organization Theory and Public Management. She is Head of the Department of Human Resources Management. Her principal fields of interest and specialization include foundations of management sciences, systems and methods of management, public management, including conditions of efficient functioning of the public sector.

Łukasz Sułkowski is Vice-President of the Polish Accreditation Committee. He is also Head of the Department of Management in Higher Education Institutions at the Jagiellonian University. His main research interests are organizational culture, intercultural management, social determinants of management, and methodology of educating and training personnel.