Tag: Interdisciplinary Centre for Staff Development

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Our plans for 2025

The year 2025 is approaching, and as the Interdisciplinary Center for Personnel Development, we already have plans for next year. First of all, our goal will be to further develop key competencies of research staff and administrative support staff of the science and higher education sector in Poland, which can contribute to strengthening the position of domestic universities on the international stage. We are conducting research on topics related to the competencies of university employees, the automation of managers and teams, the impact of artificial intelligence on the work of research teams, and the reduction of managerial influence and its

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We took part in the international scientific conference “Modernity of Industry and Services” organized annually by TNOiK

As every year, we took part in the international scientific conference “Modernity of Industry and Services” organized annually by TNOiK. The conference was held during the days at the Golebiewski Hotel in Wisla from November 20 to 22, 2024. The aim of the conference is to integrate the community of academics and business representatives who are interested in the state and development of industry and services and the functioning of modern enterprises. During the conference there is an annual presentation of the results of research of domestic and foreign scientific centers, enterprises and public institutions, exchange of experience in the

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research results

What is the importance of team diversity for research team competence? Part 3

Below are the answers to the last 3 research questions we presented in our October 14 blog post. This is a continuation of the October 21 answers, so we are numbering the questions in further order. The answer to the third question, how competencies were distributed in the research team according to seniority, can be described as follows. The results were consistent with the answer to the question of how the average competency gaps of team members are distributed across job groups. Employees with the least experience (up to 10 years of seniority) and those with the most experience (more

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What is the importance of team diversity to the competence of a research team? Part 2

As you can read in the previous post, we studied the impact of team diversity on the competence of this research team. Let’s start with the main diversity parameters we measured. The parameters describing the diversity of the team were as follows: Below are the answers to the first two research questions. The first research question, how the average competency gaps of team members were shaped according to their positions, can be answered as follows. The average competency gap for employees in the position of assistant professor was as high as -0.49, which means that these employees were on average

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What is the importance of team diversity for the competence of the research team? Part 1

In today’s world, including the world of science, joint action is seen as one of the ways to increase work efficiency, improve the level of execution, better and better scientific projects and discoveries. Joint action is based on cooperation, communication, exchange of information, openness to diversity and many other factors. Therefore, in our project to study the competencies of academics in research universities, we posed the research problem of what are the most important characteristics of a research team and the importance of the team’s diversity to its competencies. In order to solve it, we posed 5 research questions about

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Dr. Adrian Pyszka presented a paper at the XII International Conference in the series “Contemporary challenges of project and process management”

Modern organizations have faced the opportunity and at the same time the challenge of creating tools and structures based on virtual work. Therefore, it is necessary to ask ourselves more and more often how to achieve the flow effect in such work, that is, a high level of involvement in the task, at the same time combined with pleasure from the work performed. Dr. Adrian Pyszka presented the results of a study derived from the statements of 224 people working in virtual teams in Poland. The data was obtained as part of a broader CAWI-type survey. It turned out that

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Olaf Flak, PhD, spoke at the XII International Conference in the series “Contemporary Challenges of Project and Process Management”

The past 20 years have seen an explosion in the development of information technology, robotics and the replacement of human labor with machines or algorithms. It is widely believed that artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance human capabilities in teamwork, but it is still unclear how to implement management based on such solutions. Research on AI shows that it can enhance human teams in important ways, improving team coordination, increasing knowledge sharing and learning, supporting decision-making, and evaluating team performance. Therefore, the purpose of the paper that Olaf Flak, PhD, presented at the XII International Conference in the series “Contemporary Challenges

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We spoke at the VI Congress of the Polish Association of Organization Psychology

During the VI Congress of the Association of Organization Psychologists there was a presentation of the research team, implementing the grant project VT Flow and effectiveness of the virtual team. The congress took place 12.09 to 14.09 on the premises of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Lodz. “Different or the same? New Challenges in the Work Environment” was the theme of the event, and key issues included diversity and the importance of new technologies in the work context. The presentation by the team represented by Dr. Anita Pollak, Prof. of the University of Lodz, and Piotr Klimowicz,

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research results

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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