Organization of maintenance management directed on productivity improvement.

One of the essential factors deciding on enterprises competitiveness is an effective organization of maintenance management process. In contemporary literature on maintenance management you can more often meet the notion of management and organization and the significance of some factors is emphasized such as planning, rationalization of organization of structures, changes in quality and quantity of staff, labour system improvement, control etc., in realization of usage and economic aims of businesses. Observations of activities and maintenance management of technical objects should be an inspiring factor for undertaking research activity. It is the management (that is directing) of maintenance systems which is the essential problem of contemporary operations. The author of the article presents the issues of organization of maintenance management on the basis of 20 selected building-construction businesses located on Poland premises. The studies describe current condition of organization systems of maintenance management and indicate on possibilities of organizations improvements in order to increase machines productivity. In the work the elements significant for productivity of machine and devices organization maintenance system were distinguished. The author makes the machine effectiveness improvement conditional on current and long-term activities included in the framework of coherent organization and management system of the business which convey the productivity potential of the studied enterprises

Innovation management. Theory and practice

Z wyłączeniem rozdziałów V i VI autorstwa Anny Domańskiej

The role and importance of managerial competences in the effectiveness of implementation of changes in an industrial enterprise.

Effective leadership is a principal condition of the effective process of introducing a change. Change managers in an organization perform an essential part in the effectiveness of initiation of changes, and consequently, in the formation of economic development, competitiveness and profitability of an enterprise. They are the ones who substantially initiate and promote changes in an organization and perform the function of the originator of a pro-effectivity organizational culture. This paper presents the problem on the basis of 20 selected industrial enterprises. The experience of the author in the implementation of systemic changes in enterprises indicate that a shortage of efficient managers in an organization can limit or annihilate prospective results during the implementation of changes. In the process of creating entrepreneurship in an organization qualifications and competences of middle-level managers gain in importance, determining innovative processes in an organization and having an increasing influence on the strategic success of an enterprise. The author of this article describes factors rationalizing the course of implementing changes and she presents the required and most desirable competences of managers at every stage of introducing changes