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How does the balanced management of a virtual team affect its effectiveness? Part 2

In the previous blog post, we presented the answer to the research question, which was: to what extent does the lack of a defined manager of a virtual team affect the emergence of sustainable influence of team members on the course of the team? The question was raised as part of an article to be published in the journal Organization and Management, as well as participation in the conference “Sustainable Enterprise. Dilemmas of Sustainable Development.” Now we will answer the second research question, which was the following in our study: To what extent does the sustainable influence of virtual team

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How does the balanced management of a virtual team affect its effectiveness? Part 1

Recall that in April 2024 there was a national conference “Sustainable enterprise. Dilemmas of sustainable development”. The proceedings took place in Kazimierz Dolny on the Vistula River. The organizers were the Warsaw School of Economics, and the topics of the conference were part of the current issues of implementing the concept of sustainable development and building a sustainable enterprise. Among management theoreticians and practitioners, we discussed key management problems, conditions for the creation and development of a sustainable enterprise. The conference was attended by Olaf Flak, PhD, who gave a presentation entitled “Influence of sustainable team management in virtual teams

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What are the competence gaps of a diverse research team?

In our research that we conducted at research universities in Poland between 2020 and 2022, we also looked for new trends and phenomena in the work of research teams. We noticed that research teams are increasingly dispersed and diverse. Therefore, we examined the competence gaps in just such a team, coming from one of the research universities. The analyzed research team consisted of 13 employees working in research or research and teaching positions at a certain university, which is an established research university. We deliberately chose this particular team for the description, as it was also the most numerous research

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What are the competencies of research staff at research universities?

In 2022, we completed the Dialog project, in which we surveyed the competencies of research staff and support staff at Polish research universities. We surveyed 10 research universities in Poland, and more than 260 research staff from them. We described the results of the research and our conclusions in our book, still available at the bookstore of the University of Silesia in Katowice: https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/node/27063 Today we will show you some of the conclusions of the study of the competencies of science workers. You can find more in our book mentioned above. In Figure 1, we show the average results of

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How do competency gaps affect research staff effectiveness?

The next survey results among academics employed at research universities concern the effectiveness of research staff and the competency gaps that affect this effectiveness. We obtained the results of our research in the Dialog Project 2022. The research focused on the competencies of research staff and support staff at Polish research universities. Our book is still available at the bookstore of the University of Silesia in Katowice: https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/node/27063 On the topic of competency gaps, we identified two groups of findings. In the case of the assistant’s position, competencies such as analytical thinking, conscientiousness and cooperation were most important in achieving

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What are the social competencies of the research staff and support staff of Polish research universities?

In today’s blog post, we will present another portion of the results of the research we obtained in the Dialog 2022 project. The research focused on the competencies of the research and support staff of Polish research universities. Our book is still available at the bookstore of the University of Silesia in Katowice: https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/node/27063 This time we will present an excerpt from the results of the research on the social competencies of research and support staff. Their composition is shown in the title graphic of this post, included above. It should be noted that in the theoretical model – prepared

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What are the key process competencies for the different competency profiles of support staff?

In our book, Competencies of Research Staff at Polish Research Universities, we published many of the results of research on the competencies of research and support staff at Polish research universities. Our book is still available at the bookstore of the University of Silesia in Katowice: https://wydawnictwo.us.edu.pl/node/27063 In this and the following weeks, we will present on the blog selected results of the research we conducted within the framework of the DIALOG project in 2020-2022 in Polish research universities. Today, we will briefly discuss process-related for each competency profile of the support staff. To begin with, we explain the symbols

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How to represent human labor and its competencies in the form of an organizational size system?

Following on from the considerations we presented a week ago in an interview with Prof. Richard Griffith on the pace at which human labor is being replaced by artificial intelligence, one can ask: how to theoretically represent cognitive processes in the human mind especially in the area of management and teamwork? The answer to this question is the research carried out for more than a dozen years by Olaf Flak, PhD. In numerous publications he has presented his research results concerning first the theoretical concepts of the representation of the work of the manager and the team, and then empirical

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Our publication from the international conference “6th International Conference on Knowledge Management Systems ICKMS2023”

As part of the conference, which we wrote about in our previous post, we published an article titled “Teamwork Effectiveness of Virtual Teams Supported by the Knowledge Management System.” The publication was funded by our project “Flow and Effectiveness of Virtual Teams”, funded by the Polish NCN and the German DFG. See more here: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?projekt_id=498926 What did we write about in the article? Based on the theoretical foundations of team effectiveness, we formulated four research questions, which we tried to answer during the empirical research. They are as follows: The purpose of this article was to provide answers to these

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Our publication from the international conference “Modernity of Industry and Services” (MIS 2023)

The annual conference organized by TNOiK, Katowice Branch, took place on November 22-24, 2023, where we were able to present our research results in the form of an article entitled “KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION OF MANAGERIAL COMPETENCES IN VIRTUAL TEAMS AIMED AT ARTIFICIAL MANAGEMENT.” In a previous blog post, we briefly introduced the concept of an organizational size system to represent knowledge of competencies in the form of organizational sizes, and consequently in the form of managerial activities. Today we will briefly introduce the published article. The purpose of the article was to present a solution to a research problem in the

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