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Produktywność pracy a efektywność przedsiębiorstw górniczych

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Turek M., Michalak A.

Ekonomika i Organizacja Przedsiębiorstwa

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2015

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issue 6 (785)

105-116

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Artykuł dotyczy problemu produktywności pracy w polskiej branży górnictwa węgla kamiennego. W sytuacji, w jakiej znajduje się aktualnie polskie górnictwo, problematyka ta jest szczególnie istotna. Koszty pracy są bowiem głównym składnikiem kosztów produkcji węgla. Celem badań jest analiza porównawcza i ocena produktywności pracy w poszczególnych przedsiębiorstwach branży górnictwa węgla kamiennego w latach 2009-2013. Na podstawie przeprowadzonych badań stwierdzono, że zasoby ludzkie nie są wykorzystywane efektywnie we wszystkich przedsiębiorstwach w branży. W poszczególnych przedsiębiorstwach górniczych bardzo zróżnicowana jest rentowność pracy i koszty pracy na 1 zatrudnionego oraz produktywność kosztów pracy. W artykule zwrócono szczególną uwagę na przyrosty kosztów pracy, mające miejsce w okresach w których jednocześnie odnotowuje się znaczący spadek wyniku finansowego przedsiębiorstwa. Decyzje takie mogą skutkować poważnymi kryzysami finansowymi i mogą doprowadzić do upadłości przedsiębiorstwa.

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The article relates to the problem of workforce productivity in the Polish hard coal mining industry. This problem is highly important in a situation that the Polish mining industry is currently facing. The costs of workforce are the main element of the cost of coal production. The objective of research is to perform a comparative analysis and assessment of workforce productivity in the individual enterprises from the hard coal mining industry in the years 2009-2013. On the basis of the research conducted it was concluded that human resources are not used effectively in all the enterprises in the industry. There is varied workforce productivity and cost of workforce per 1 employee as well as productivity of cost of workforce in the particular mining enterprises. In the article a special attention is paid to the increase in cost of workforce taking place in the periods when a considerable fall in the enterprises’ financial results is observed as well. Such decisions may result in serious financial crises and may lead to the enterprise’s bankruptcy.

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Jan Pazdur – historyk dawnego przemysłu Starachowic

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Wójcik Z.

Analecta. Studia i Materiały z Dziejów Nauki

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2016

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vol. 25

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issue 2(49)

197-208

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Jan Pazdur lived in the years 1909-2000. He graduated from the history department of the Jagiellonian University, and in 1948 gained a doctorate there. He worked as a teacher in secondary schools in Kielce from 1932 to 1951, with a break in his work during the 2nd World War, when he was imprisoned in the German concentration camp in Sahsenchausen (1940-1945). From 1954, he was employed in the Institute of Material Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In his work he concentrated mainly on the history of metallurgical-mining industry of Central Poland, researched old technical press, and particularly pursued studies on the creation of methodological basis of a new at that time scientific trend – history of material culture. Results of his own work, together with studies of his associates were announced in printed publications in Poland and abroad. He edited a series Studia z Dziejów Górnictwa i Hutnictwa (Studies in the History of Mining and Metallurgy) – 14 volumes in 1957-1970 – that became a worldwide sensation. Pazdur was an author of numerous books and articles, dealing to a large extent with the history of industry of so-called Old Polish district (region covering Sandomierz, Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, Kielce, Starachowice, Końskie and Olkusz). He was especially interested in development of the Kamienna valey, where in the 19th century an idea of continuous ironworks (by Stanisław Staszic, Ksawery Drucki-Lubecki, Polish Bank) was realised: at the top of the valley were mines producing pig iron, in the middle – puddling workshop, etc., and at the bottom – factories producing agricultural tools and weapons for the military. The centre of this plant was located in Starachowice, where to this day is kept an open-hearth furnace, probably the last one in Europe. That astute archive researcher and country analyst much of his attention devoted to inventorying industrial monuments that were deteriorating in Poland. He edited and published catalogues of those monuments, was co-author of the joint publication Historia kultury materialnej Polski w zarysie (An outline of the history of material culture of Poland) – 4 volumes in 1978-1979. Pazdur was the sole author of a monograph (1968) Starachowice - osiedle i zakłady do 1939 r. (Starachowice – estate and factories until 1939), which is a canon of literature of this kind. It gives a view of construction and functioning of the metallurgic continuous plant in the first half of the 19th century, and also of adaptation of its fragments during mid-war period into the Central Industrial District. Being aware of efforts to preserve industrial patrimony (especially in France), Pazdur, together with i.a. Danuta Molenda, mining history specialist, endeavoured to set up a museum protecting monuments in place where they had been established and functioned. That is how an idea of ecomuseum of industrialised area of Old Poland Kamienna valley came into being. The antique furnace in Starachowice, together with all the accompanying objects, are today a museum named after Pazdur. It is as an example of dissemination of knowledge about Old Poland mining-metallurgical industry and technology development.

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Forma oraz identyfikacja klastrów w fazie embrionalnej. Przykład klastra technologii podwodnych w regionie północno-wschodniej Anglii

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Siedlok F., Pierpaolo A.

Zarządzanie Publiczne / Public Governance

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2007

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issue 1(1)

79-94

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Upadek przemysłu ciężkiego najczęściej jest kojarzony z negatywnymi skutkami społeczno-gospodarczymi. Jednakże upadek tradycyjnych gałęzi gospodarki może wyzwolić szereg pozytywnych procesów związanych z innowacyjnością oraz prowadzących do powstania nowych, zaawansowanych technologicznie, klastrów. Niniejszy artykuł przedstawia narodziny oraz ewolucję nowego, technologicznie zaawansowanego, klastra technologii podwodnych (subsea technologies) związanych z upadkiem przemysłu ciężkiego w regionie północno-wschodniej Anglii. Przykład ten ilustruje kilka ważnych kwestii. Po pierwsze, „pozytywną” rolę upadku przemysłu ciężkiego w procesie formowania nowego sektora, po drugie zróżnicowaną dynamikę rozwoju klastra oraz po trzecie, problemy związane z identyﬁkacją i rozwojem klastrów embrionalnych, podkreślając zwłaszcza rolę polityki publicznej w procesie wspierania ich rozwoju. Przykład klastra technologii podwodnych przeanalizowany został z perspektywy teorii kompleksowości oraz koewolucji, z naciskiem na procesy egzaptacji oraz rekombinacji.

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This paper examines the emergence of the subsea technologies cluster that followed the collapse of the previously dominating industries of shipbuilding and heavy engineering in the North East of England. By reconstructing the events that lead to emergence of the subsea technologies cluster, we decoupled and analyzed three main development trajectories. The case study is then interpreted using concepts rooted in complexity theory and co-evolutionary frameworks. In particular, we show that recombinant and non-adaptive (exaptational) processes constitute powerful theoretical frameworks to understand the social and technical dynamics related to the emergence of new clusters from the ashes of the collapsed ones. Based on the lessons learnt from the subsea case study, we draw some general conclusions for policies aimed to support embryonic clusters and propose a framework for the identification embryonic cluster in the context of industrial demise.

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Corporate governance jako jeden z czynników mających wpływ na wysokość rezerw podmiotów z branży górniczej w latach 2018–2021

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Białas M.

Studia i Prace Kolegium Zarządzania i Finansów

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2023

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issue 190

97-109

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Provisions created for future liabilities are the subject of this paper. The research was conducted on the basis of separate financial statements of entities from the mining industry, which are obliged to reclaim mining areas after the end of their operations. The aim of the article is to determine whether corporate governance has an impact on the amount of provisions created in the mining industry. In particular, attempts were made to verify whether the value of created provisions depends on who owns a given mining company. In addition, thanks to the collected data, it will be possible to determine how these enterprises prepare for future liabilities by creating provisions. Has the Covid-19 pandemic also had an impact on changes in this area?

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Przedmiotem artykułu są rezerwy tworzone na przyszłe zobowiązania. Badania przeprowadzono, opierając się na jednostkowych sprawozdaniach finansowych podmiotów z branży górniczej, które to podmioty mają obowiązek po zakończeniu działalności dokonać rekultywacji terenów górniczych. Celem artykułu jest ustalenie, czy corporate governance ma wpływ na wysokość tworzonych rezerw w branży górniczej. W szczególności próbowano zweryfikować, czy wartość tworzonych rezerw zależy od tego, jaka jest forma prawna i kto jest właścicielem danego przedsiębiorstwa górniczego. Dodatkowo, dzięki zebranym danym będzie możliwe ustalenie, w jakim stopniu przedsiębiorstwa te przygotowują się na przyszłe zobowiązania poprzez tworzenie rezerw. Czy pandemia COVID-19 również miała wpływ na zmiany w tym zakresie?

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Application of computer systems in supporting maintenance policy in mining industry

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Biały W., Bobkowski G.

Organizacja i Zarządzanie : kwartalnik naukowy

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2009

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vol. nr 4

5-20

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Continuous production maintenance in mining industry (coal mines) results in high production costs. Well-known computer systems supporting machine and appliances exploitation as well as traffic control in factories have been currently broadly applied in a variety of industry branches. Therefore introduction of these systems in mining industry operations seems inevitable. CMMs class system introduction in mining industry should provide continuous operation of machines and appliances and result in decrease of variable costs of the company due to extended operating time of the devices. In terms of a coal mine, this time savings will result in loss cuts as a result of machine delays. Applications of computer systems supporting the maintenance policy in mining industry have been presented.

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Zapewnienie ciągłości ruchu w zakładach górniczych (kopalniach węgla kamiennego) generuje wysokie koszty produkcji. Komputerowe systemy wspomagające zarządzanie eksploatacją maszyn i urządzeń oraz utrzymaniem ruchu w przedsiębiorstwach na dzień dzisiejszy znalazły szerokie zastosowanie w wielu gałęziach przemysłu. Dlatego też nieuchronne wydaje się wprowadzenie tych systemów do obsługi zakładów górniczych. Wprowadzenie systemu klasy CMMs w zakładach górniczych powinno zapewnić ciągłość pracy eksploatowanych maszyn/urządzeń, a tym samym obniżyć koszty zmienne przedsiębiorstwa w wyniku wydłużenia czasu pracy tych maszyn/urządzeń. W przypadku zakładu górniczego pozytywnym skutkiem tej oszczędności czasowej będzie ograniczenie strat spowodowanych przestojem maszyn. Przedstawione zostały możliwości zastosowania narzędzi komputerowych do wspomagania gospodarki remontowej zakładów górniczych.

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Złoża soli w Polsce w ujęciu przeglądowym

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Kuc W.

Studia i Materiały do Dziejów Żup Solnych w Polsce

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2016

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vol. 31

151-208

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It is a well-known fact that the basis for the existence of mines are minerals (i.e. deposits thereof). Within the present-day borders of Poland, salt deposits are related to two areas. Both are designated by the occurrence of evaporates belonging to epochs distant in time: Zechstein and Miocene. Rock salt of the Miocene epoch occurs in a belt of parallel latitude designated by the border of thrusting over of the Carpathian flysch formations. In these areas, tectonic enrichment of the evaporates took place as a result of scraping them from an area with a width of several dozen kilometres. Tectonic accumulation of salt resulted in emergence of deposits with utility characteristics in several places. Bochnia and Wieliczka are the oldest centres where salt mines were built. The deposits were examined gradually, starting from the Middle Ages, in the course of their exploitation. Such long period of production activity also includes present day utilisation of water from the Wieliczka Salt Mine performed in the saltworks nearby. Production of evaporated salt in the area of Lesser Poland adjoining the Carpathian Mountains constitutes a separate thread in the history of economy. The presence of active salt springs in this area in the middle Neolithic period changed the mode of life of nomadic groups of people. From hunters and gatherers, they transformed into settled producers of evaporated salt. Activity in this area of economy continued to develop until the Middle Ages, when deposits of rock salt were discovered. Since that moment, salt evaporation has been combined with mining activities. Salt brine extracted from the mine provided material for the saltworks operating on the surface; exploitation of rock salt was performed in parallel. Such a state of affairs continued until 1724. At the beginning of the 19th century, attempts were made to reintroduce the production of evaporated salt, yet it was eventually reinstated in 1913 after opening of saltworks near the Kinga Shaft. Therefore, it may be stated that a salt-making centre has existed here for several centuries which, in a certain period, was extended onto a mine. Nowadays, apart from ongoing securing work and control of the state of the mining pits, the basic activity of the salt mines in Wieliczka and Bochnia is limited to the tourist, recreational, entertainment and spa offer. The long production history of the salt deposits is today testified by salt evaporation, initiated already in the Neolithic Age. One may venture saying that after the industrial activity has ceased, a certain return to the sources took place: unfortunately, not the salt spring sources, as they ceased to be active a long time ago. In Wieliczka, the resources are provided by salty waters of the mine and in Łapczyca near Bochnia (SALCO company), rich brine is procured from boreholes. Therefore, today only these two centres make references to the distant salt evaporation traditions. A thorough picture of the genesis of sub-Carpathian salt deposits and the operation of both mines with respect to historical, cultural, technical and natural issues is contained in the display and publication offers and presented during events organised by the Cracow Saltworks Museum Wieliczka. The institution tries to be a centre collecting information about the history of the salt mining industry in Poland, with special attention given to the oldest salt mines in Bochnia and in Wieliczka. The rank of both facilities is confirmed by the entry in the UNESCO World Heritage List: on 23 June 2013 both mines were entered in the list as the Cracow Saltworks along with the Saltworks Castle (the Salt Mine in Wieliczka was entered in the list on 9 September 1978). Bearing in mind such finale of the story, it is worth appreciating the causal factor of nature examined and described by geologists. It was included in numerous studies investigating the genesis of Miocene salt deposits. Examination of the geological structure of deposits and, subsequently, relating their genesis to regional processes, forms a separate part of history. It may start with practical mining activities which, already in the 17th century, found their expression in maps illustrating the situation of mining pits (Marcin German, William Hondius). Conclusions about the form of the deposit may be drawn from them. Questions about its genesis were probably asked earlier. Systematic geological studies commenced in the 19th century focused more on the Wieliczka deposit (Ludwik Emanuel Hrdina, Jan Nepomucen Hrdina, Julian Niedźwiedzki and others). In the course of time, the structure of the deposit was connected to the regional scale of geological processes. Among an incomplete list of researchers discovering the secrets of the Miocene salt, it is necessary to mention the names of Antoni Gaweł, Józef Poborski, Kamila Skoczylas-Ciszewska and Aleksander Garlicki. The work of geologists led to the examination of subsequent deposits. The knowledge gathered during these studies offers a beautiful illustration for the determining relation between geological processes and the mining history of the region. Contemporary stages of exploitation of Miocene salt are designated by the presence of deposits in Barycz, Łężkowice and Siedlec-Moszczenica. However, all of the mining centres related to them ended their operation before the end of the 20th century. Deposits documented in Rybnik and Wojnicz constitute some type of a reserve from this period. Today, their future is unknown, yet a description of their structure also constitutes an important supplement for the knowledge about the formation of Miocene salt series in the area of thrusting over of the Carpathian flysch and outside of it. There is a series of archaeologically documented production sites of evaporated salt dating back to the middle Neolithic period. They occur in the vicinity of later salt mines. Other centres with the tradition of salt evaporation are hidden behind the name of spa resorts: Iwonicz Zdrój, Rabka Zdrój, Busko Zdrój, and these that aspire to such role, making references to the salt-working past, e.g. Sól, Sołonka, Dębieńsko, Dębowiec and Zabłocie. The Zechstein evaporates are related to mining centres located on the deposits discovered in the 19th century. At that time, Inowrocław appeared on the map of salt mining and slightly later Wapno. Both centres already have historical significance, nowadays modestly reminded by the artefacts (e.g. geological specimens) and by descriptive and photographic documents in greater numbers. It is also necessary to mention much older traditions of producing salt from salt springs located on the surface. In Kujawy, such activity already took place in the ancient times; traces of a graduation tower from the beginnings of our era were discovered in the area of present-day Inowrocław. In post-war economy, salt from the Zechstein deposits started to play a growing role. New deposits were documented and subsequently exploited in diapir structures, e.g. in Kłodawa, Góra, Mogilno and Rogóźno, Damasławek, Lubień and Łanięta. The exploited deposits are documented in higher categories, yet the basic data about the structure, such as the caprock, the salt table, the form of diapir, its size, resources and types of salt were determined for all. This also refers to bedded deposits in the region of Łaba and Sieroszowice–Kaźmierz. As it turned out, numerous Zechstein salt deposits are fit for the construction of cavern storage facilities for liquid and gas hydrocarbons. Work in this direction was commenced in 1975 in the diapir deposit “Lubień Kujawski” and stopped in 1981. The first utility storage was established in post-exploitation voids (open pit exploration via leaching) of the “Góra” mine. Subsequent ones were established in “Mogilno” and “Mechelinki” deposits (the last storage facility in 1916). As can be seen from the examples presented above, the history of salt mining includes another aspect of application of salt deposits. It has to be emphasised that each decision on the possibility of opening a storage facility is related not only to the documentation of the salt deposit as such, but it also requires examination of its structure, properties of the rocks and geological structure of the neighbouring area. The history of two locations is related to salt evaporation: in Kołobrzeg, it is slightly overshadowed by health resort functions and in Ciechocinek, one of the graduation towers continues to function in cooperation with saltworks. In both cities, salt tradition is to be connected to the presence of Zechstein formation of evaporates.

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