Increasing job flexibility results in measurable economic and non-economic benefits both for employers and employees. In telecommuting, changing the way of functioning of an employee subjected to other rigors, requirements and regularities raises a question: what influence does making the work place and working hours more flexible have on him/her personally. On the basis of information obtained in interviews, psychological threats associated with telecommuting were analyzed in order to determine causes of excessive psychological burdens, adaptation difficulties and their possible results considered within the framework of work psychopathology
A person employed on a temporary basis gains new possibilities, but also encounters psychological difficulties. They can be particularly burdensome if this form of employment was not the preferred one. The character of temporary employment consists in emotional and cognitive effort resulting from the necessity of cyclic adjustment to new conditions, entering into important interpersonal relationships and then breaking them off in order to begin the entire cycle again. This article aims at analyzing psychological threats associated with temporary employment. A questionnaire survey conducted among employees employed by a temporary job agency was supposed to show the most important stress sources in this kind of employment. The likelihood of burnout syndrome was also analyzed.
For many years, job satisfaction has been one of the most frequently undertaken research problems, first and foremost due to its significance for practice: for management as determinants of an employee's work readiness, for contemporary organisations both as an objective and indicator of organisational effectiveness; psychology is obliged to the significance of professional sphere in a person's life, the influence of job satisfaction on the quality of life and its subjective evaluation. Researchers have a great interest in this area, proof of which can be seen in the number of terms and definitions. Their ambiguity is an important, yet not always obvious, methodological problem. Different research attitude - as a result of ambiguous understanding of phenomena determined as "job satisfaction", "professional satisfaction" vs "dissatisfaction", "no satisfaction" - makes it difficult, and sometimes even impossible, to compare the results. Therefore, the article aims at presenting methodological difficulties faced by a researcher dealing with an interdisciplinary problem of job satisfaction, where doubts appear at the first stage, i.e. establishing definitions.
The article presents the analysis of the absorption of housing loans by households in the entire banking sector between years 2000 and 2007. Attention was drawn to the dynamic development of the mortgage market; also housing loans were analyzed in relation to GDP in Poland and the other European Union countries. The summary shows that real estate lending is dominated by large universal banks.
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