Assessment of Leadership of a Superior in Polish Enterprises
Abstract
Changes taking place in today's globalised world force enterprises to focus more attention on the quality of leadership resulting mainly from actions and decisions taken by superiors, heads or managers of organisations. Striving to strengthen their market position and achieve success, enterprises concentrate on looking for solutions that will allow them to stimulate employees to make changes and develop in order to increase the quality of the functioning of human capital, and thus implement the strategy of the organisation. Effectiveness and quality of leadership depend to a large extent on competences of employees in an organisation, in particular the competences of the managerial staff. The paper presents results of a survey conducted in January 2015 on a group of employees of Polish enterprises. The aim of the paper is to indicate the main characteristics of a superior and their leadership skills in the area of managing employees. It also points out relationships between selected characteristics and the scale and profile of a company's activity, how long it has been functioning on the market and the period of employment of those surveyed.Downloads
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