<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">A declarative framework enabling to determine conditions as well as to develop decision-making software supporting small- and medium-sized enterprises aimed at unique, multi-project-like and mass customized oriented production is discussed. A set of unique production orders grouped into portfolio orders is considered. Operations executed along different production orders share available resources following a mutual exclusion protocol. A unique product or production batch is completed while following a given activity’s network order. The problem concerns scheduling a newly inserted project portfolio subject to constraints imposed by a multi-project environment The answers sought are: Can a given project portfolio specified by its cost and completion time be completed within the assumed time period in a manufacturing system in hand? Which manufacturing system capability guarantees the completion of a given project portfolio ordered under assumed cost and time constraints? The considered problems regard finding a computationally effective approach aimed at simultaneous routing and allocation as well as batching and scheduling of a newly ordered project portfolio subject to constraints imposed by a multi-project environment. The main objective is to provide a declarative model enabling to state a constraint satisfaction problem aimed at multi-project-like and mass customized oriented production scheduling. Multiple illustrative examples are discussed.</abstract>

Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Management, Warsaw, Poland

Koszalin University of Technology, Dept. of Computer Science and Management, Poland

Declarative Modeling for Production Order Portfolio Scheduling

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">This study sets out an original concept of the decomposition process of insurance operations. The first part of the paper presents the concept of the process, the process-based approach and process management. The further part identifies the processes carried out in insurance companies and discusses the purposes of implementing them. The final part of the study presents an example of the practical application of the process-based approach to issues of financial management of an insurance company.</abstract>

The Decomposition Process of Insurance Operations

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Collaboration between business and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) is a relatively new phenomenon in the Polish market. It appears, however, that corporations recognized as socially responsible in Poland are starting to see greater benefits than before in collaboration with the third sector. More and more often, the collaboration involves an exchange of different resources and not merely sponsorship of specific events or social campaigns. The present study stresses the developmental aspect of the business-NGO collaboration. The collaboration by entities has been analyzed on the basis of recent literature dealing with sustainability management, Corporate Social Responsibility and business- NGO relations, and also on own research. The study discusses the conceptions of socially responsible corporations reaching new markets and customers on the basis of collaboration with NGOs.</abstract>

The Socially Engaged Corporation - Attitudes and Knowledge Related to Collaboration with Non-Governmental Organizations

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Advanced training courses in the energetics field is a very important part of human reliability growth. In the words of S.E. Magid, chief of Technical Educational systems in Energy Technologies, UNESCO department: “The number of forced outages due to failures of equipment on the power stations -30 %. The share of operational personnel fault in these infringements makes considerable size (to 15%). As a whole in the Russian Open Society ‘United Power Systems’ the infringements percentage because of the personnel from infringements total makes 2%. At the same time, on power stations this quantity makes 18%. In power supply systems of Siberia the relative quantity of infringements because of the personnel reaches 50%.” [1].</abstract>

Saint-Petersburg State Agrarian University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Data Mining and Statistics Methods for Advanced Training Course Quality Measurement: Case Study

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Implementation of R&amp;D projects determines whether the organization is changing and becoming fully competitive. R&amp;D projects are the basis for innovation policy at the macro level - the state - and the micro level - the organization. Management of R&amp;D projects requires not only high level of skills, but knowledge of highly developed tools to support the development of the organization. In managing this type of project, methods such as management competence, talent and knowledge, knowledge of modern information, and communication technology, stand out. In this study the following issues are presented: analysis of decision-making processes of R&amp;D projects, basic modeling methodology of R&amp;D projects, and analysis of communication systems in project management. The final part of the article presents the problems of commercialization of results obtained from R&amp;D projects. </abstract>

Project Management in Research and Development

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The following paper presents dangerous and evident phenomenon of communicational chaos in the field of environment protection and sustainable development in a turbulent external environment. It is pointed that this phenomenon gives organizations an opportunity to take pretended pro-environmental actions, such as socially critical greenwashing. As a counterbalance to those practices, a concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is presented, underlining the possibility of developing honest environmental marketing basing on methods such as Life Cycle Assessment.</abstract>

COBRO – Packaging Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

Life Cycle Assessment in Management of Socially Responsible Enterprise

<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The article presents results of empirical research concerning the directions of changes in organizational structures of SME which have occurred during the last few years. The research was carried out in a group of 380 enterprises running their businesses in Poland. The organizational structure generally described in respect of parameters such as centralization, formalization, standardization and configuration. The main part of this article is dedicated to changes that have occurred in organizational structures of SME.</abstract>

Directions of Changes in Organizational Structures of SME - Results of Empirical Research

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