Bankowość polska w perspektywie członkostwa w Unii Europejskiej

Z wprowadzenia: "Uczestnictwo Polski w procesie integracyjnym z Unią Europejską jest zjawiskiem złożonym i dynamicznym. Ważną rolę odgrywają w nim banki. Powodzenie integrowania się Polski ze strukturami zachodnioeuropejskimi w znacznym stopniu zależy również od przygotowania banków do funkcjonowania w warunkach jednolitego rynku europejskiego. Oznacza to, przyjęcie przez Polskę wspólnotowego dorobku prawnego (acquis communautaire). Ze względu na konieczność przedstawienia tematu w syntetycznej formie, zostaną tu poruszone jedynie wybrane zagadnienia odnoszące się do omawianej materii."(...

Leniency Program as an Innovative Legal Tool for Fighting Cartels within The European Union

The article focuses on discussing the substance of the institution of leniency which is used against cartel agreements. The study was carried out with regard to the provisions of EU law and Polish law. The paper analyses the factors that determine the effectiveness of the leniency program. Some of the considerations were given to the practical effects of applying the scheme by the European Commission and the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection. The article discusses the issue of the impact of the leniency program on the effectiveness of antitrust proceedings and shows the factors which determine the effective functioning of the program

Selected aspects of conflict management in organizations

Purpose: The main purpose of the paper is to systematize and analyse conflict behaviour in organizations, indicate sources of conflicts, as well as determine possible responses to such situations with regard to their impact on the organization. Design/methodology/approach: The approach applied in the paper is of a descriptive and empirical nature. The research methods involved in this paper are: induction, deduction, literature studies, as well as survey and data analysis. The method of critical and comparative analysis was used in relation to the views presented in the literature. Findings: The paper ends with a brief presentation of research findings, which correspond to the formulated research questions on most common causes of conflicts in organizations, the conflict’s impact on the organization and people, managers’ and employees’ behaviour and reactions. Research limitations/implications: Additional work is needed to disseminate research findings among managers and employees and to implement them in appropriate conflict management trainings. Originality/value The paper has a cognitive value for managers, as well as employees working in organizations. Results have theoretical, as well as practical implications in search of solutions to conflicts

Leadership and managing stress in the organization

Purpose: The main purpose of the paper is to systematize and analyze relation between the role of leadership and stress management in the organizations, indicate sources of stress as well as to determine possible responses to such situations with regard to their impact on the organization. Design/methodology/approach: The approach applied in the paper is of descriptive-empirical nature. The research methods involved in this paper are: induction, deduction, literature studies, as well survey and data analysis. The method of critical and comparative analysis was used in relation to the views presented in the literature. Findings: The paper ends with a brief presentation of research findings which correspond to the formulated research questions on most common causes of stress in organizations and its impact on the organization and people as well as their behaviors and reactions. Research implications: Future research directions should focus on further, expanded research exploration in the area, taking into account various industries. Additional work is needed to disseminate research findings among managers and employees and to implement them in appropriate stress management trainings. Practical implications: The results of the research discussed in the paper have a number of practical implications mainly for the managers in terms of use of stress management tools and improvement of stress management strategies. Social implications: Building awareness of stress management issues. Originality/value The paper has a cognitive value for managers as well as employees working in organizations. Results have theoretical as well as practical implications in search of solutions to stress management

Managing relations with customers in the video game industry

Purpose: The main goal of the paper is to analyze customers relation between video game developers and the gaming community and their impact on the corporate image creation as well as gaining trust and good reputation by the company. Design/methodology/approach: The approach applied in the paper is of descriptive-empirical nature. The research methods involved in this paper are: induction, deduction, literature studies, as well survey and data analysis. The method of critical and comparative analysis was used in relation to the views presented in the literature. Findings: The paper ends with a brief presentation of research findings which correspond to the formulated research questions on building the relations with a client. Research implications: Future research directions should focus on further, expanded research exploration in the area, taking into account various industries. Additional work is needed to disseminate research findings among managers and to implement them in public relations policies of the companies. Practical implications: The results of the research discussed in the paper have a number of practical implications mainly for the managers in terms of use of customers relations tools and improvement of communication strategies. Social implications: Building awareness of customer to business communication. Originality/value The paper has a cognitive value for managers. Results have theoretical as well as practical implications in search of solutions to customers relations management

A new auto adaptive fuzzy hybrid particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm

The social learning mechanism used in the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm allows this method to converge quickly. However, it can lead to catching the swarm in the local optimum. The solution to this issue may be the use of genetic operators whose random nature allows them to leave this point. The degree of use of these operators can be controlled using a neuro-fuzzy system. Previous studies have shown that the form of fuzzy rules should be adapted to the fitness landscape of the problem. This may suggest that in the case of complex optimization problems, the use of different systems at different stages of the algorithm will allow to achieve better results. In this paper, we introduce an auto adaptation mechanism that allows to change the form of fuzzy rules when solving the optimization problem. The proposed mechanism has been tested on benchmark functions widely adapted in the literature. The results verify the effectiveness and efficiency of this solution

The role of leadership in corporate social responsibility as a manifestation of organization’s intellectual capital : a conceptual framework

PURPOSE: The main concept of the work is to learn, understand, describe and explain the importance of leaders characterized by special moral competences giving them a rational direction to their behaviors and thus to the development of the socially responsible organization in the context of constituting intellectual capital within the process of corporate social responsibility.DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: The paper constitutes the conceptual research framework for further investigations on the position of the leadership in socially responsible organizations which contributes to the increasing role of intellectual capital in the above organizations. The hypotheses summarizing the deliberation based on the critical review of the literature were formulated in the paper.FINDINGS: The preliminary results of the conceptual work carried out indicate that the higher the level of intellectual capital, the higher is the level of excellence in social responsibility. It was also assumed that the key factor shaping intellectual capital of the organization is the emotional intelligence of the leader and the emotional intelligence of the leader positively shapes interpersonal trust in the organization as well as inter-organizational trust.PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: Presented outcomes may be useful in formulating management strategies of contemporary enterprises based on the specific role of the responsible leader which then may turn into a new paradigm of managing socially responsible organization operating at higher level of responsibility awareness.ORIGINALITY/VALUE: The results of the research contribute in the cognitive sense to the enrichment of knowledge in terms of responsible leadership and developing intellectual capital of the organizations.peer-reviewe

Hardware implementation of a Takagi-Sugeno neuro-fuzzy system optimized by a population algorithm

Over the last several decades, neuro-fuzzy systems (NFS) have been widely analyzed and described in the literature because of their many advantages. They can model the uncertainty characteristic of human reasoning and the possibility of a universal approximation. These properties allow, for example, for the implementation of nonlinear control and modeling systems of better quality than would be possible with the use of classical methods. However, according to the authors, the number of NFS applications deployed so far is not large enough. This is because the implementation of NFS on typical digital platforms, such as, for example, microcontrollers, has not led to sufficiently high performance. On the other hand, the world literature describes many cases of NFS hardware implementation in programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) offering sufficiently high performance. Unfortunately, the complexity and cost of such systems were so high that the solutions were not very successful. This paper proposes a method of the hardware implementation of MRBF-TS systems. Such systems are created by modifying a subclass of Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy-neural structures, i.e. the NFS group functionally equivalent to networks with radial basis functions (RBF). The structure of the MRBF-TS is designed to be well suited to the implementation on an FPGA. Thanks to this, it is possible to obtain both very high computing efficiency and high accuracy with relatively low consumption of hardware resources. This paper describes both, the method of implementing MRBFTS type structures on the FPGA and the method of designing such structures based on the population algorithm. The described solution allows for the implementation of control or modeling systems, the implementation of which was impossible so far due to technical or economic reasons

Efficient Lightweight Multimodel Deep Fusion Based on ECG for Arrhythmia Classification

An arrhythmia happens when the electrical signals that organize the heartbeat do not work accurately. Most cases of arrhythmias may increase the risk of stroke or cardiac arrest. As a result, early detection of arrhythmia reduces fatality rates. This research aims to provide a lightweight multimodel based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can transfer knowledge from many lightweight deep learning models and decant it into one model to aid in the diagnosis of arrhythmia by using electrocardiogram (ECG) signals. Thus, we gained a multimodel able to classify arrhythmia from ECG signals. Our system’s effectiveness is examined by using a publicly accessible database and a comparison to the current methodologies for arrhythmia classification. The results we achieved by using our multimodel are better than those obtained by using a single model and better than most of the previous detection methods. It is worth mentioning that this model produced accurate classification results on small collection of data. Experts in this field can use this model as a guide to help them make decisions and save time