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Knowledge flow between employees is an important process that influences both effectiveness and innovativeness. Among the antecedences of the employees’ knowledge sharing behaviour are the physical structure of the organization and the decisions concerning placement of individuals in the work space. The paper examines how organizational architecture and location of employees is related with different types of knowledge sharing. In this case study research the work place observation and content analysis of interviewees were applied. The study was done in the Quality Department in Polish subsidiary of multinational concern. It turned out that where there was the greater physical distance between employees and limited visual contact, the responsive knowledge sharing was favoured. Moreover, the more open was the work space where employees from different departments were located, the employees looked for the cloistered areas to share knowledge and that process was less spontaneous. In order to eliminate the spatial constrains to knowledge sharing, the group leaders in the department, regularly organized meetings facilitating knowledge flow in the groups.
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Dynamika współczesnego otoczenia nieustannie przybiera na sile. Organizacje chcąc egzystować i rozwijać się w takich warunkach ulegają przyspieszeniu. Z tego względu autorki artykułu za punkt wyjścia do prowadzonych rozważań uczyniły zarysowanie istoty zjawiska przyspieszenia funkcjonowania organizacji i jego przejawów, do których zaliczają: przeciążenie pracą, wielozadaniowość, ciągłe wprowadzanie zmian i silną presję na wyniki. Pozwoliło to w dalszej części artykułu na przedstawienie konsekwencji tego zjawiska z poziomu pracowników. Autorki sugerują, że organizacje, których działalność przyspiesza są szczególnie narażone na ryzyko wystąpienia u pracowników: stresu, wypalenia zawodowego i pracoholizmu. Biorąc to pod uwagę oraz fakt, że dynamiki otoczenia nie da się zatrzymać autorki wysuwają wniosek końcowy o konieczności podejmowania przez kierownictwo organizacji działań mających na celu minimalizowanie i ograniczanie negatywnych skutków przyspieszenia. W proces ten powinny być również włączone instytucje edukacyjne i naukowe.
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The dynamics of the contemporary business environment intensifies continuously. In that conditions, organizations in order to exist and develop start to accelerate. Therefore authors started their considerations with defining the essence of the organizational acceleration phenomenon and its main symptoms: work overload, multi-tasking, introducing changes continuously and strong pressure on performance. Then they reflected about individual consequences of acceleration from the employees point of view. It turned out that the accelerating organizations have high risk of occupational stress, occupational burnout and workaholism of their employees. The concluding remarks are based on the assumption that organizational dynamics and acceleration is going to be common organizational situation, therefore managers should learn how to introduce practices that help in minimising negative consequences of acceleration on employees. There is need of further research and training programs that take into account organizational acceleration and situation of employees.
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1. Purpose The authors of this article make an attempt at verifying the usefulness of the foresight concept in instituting favorable conditions for socio-economic regional development, particularly based on the West Pomeranian voivodeship. 2. Methodology Based on European and Japanese foresight experiences, the authors made an evaluation of the program effects in the West Pomeranian voivodeship, both in terms of 'rigid' outcomes (i.e. reports, technological knowledge) and 'soft' outcomes (i.e. values). The latter turned out to have the most significant effects. Moreover, socio-economic development conditions of the region were analyzed together with the expectations of regional leaders regarding the conditions that lead to individual commitment to regional development, cooperation and responsibility. The data for the analysis was gathered during a focus group discussion and supplemented by survey results. 3. Findings A comparison of the foresight program outcomes with the expectations of regional leaders indicated that foresight is a desirable form of support for the development of the West Pomeranian voivodeship. 4. Originality The originality of the paper rests on the related long-term Japanese experience in applying foresight and the obtained results through this method in terms of socio-economic needs of the West Pomeranian voivodeship were defined during the focus group discussion. The authors showed the potential of using foresight not only as a method of developing directions for the development of regional innovation policy but also as a method that supports forming adequate conditions for socio-economic regional development.
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