Journal of Management and Digital Transformation

In the presented text, attention is focused on one specific professional term – “gender”. Its concept will first be defined in the theoretical part of this article, and then, based on a review of relevant sources, the first half of the document will outline findings related to gender issues in the workplace, with an emphasis on the possible positives (benefits) of this type of diversity in a person’s working life – i.e. within the performance of professional duties in an enterprise, company or generally an organisation in which people are employed. Subsequently, the practical part of this article will build on the theoretical findings in its first half, specifically through the empirical work of the author. This will take the form of a survey carried out on the employees of a total of four different companies, where survey respondents will be asked individual questions (survey items) how (or if at all) gender diversity is supported and used in their workplaces (how it is manifested, etc.). The aim of the document is to present the concept of gender in relation to a person’s working life and describe the current situation in companies operating in the Czech Republic in the area of gender diversity. In addition to the described general objective of the entire article, goals related to the author’s own exploratory investigation will be defined in its empirical part. On the basis of the aforementioned survey, data from a selected sample of involved respondents will be processed. The results expressed on the basis of this data will complement the first half of the text, which will deal mainly with the knowledge, opinions and findings of other people, professionals in various fields, in whom it is possible to observe an interest in gender issues either in general, or taking into account the professional life of the adult population or directly in relation to the already mentioned gender diversity. For the theoretical part of the document, publications obtained during the author’s research on the basis of the chosen keywords (these include gender, gender diversity, gender stereotyping, discrimination and others) will be utilised.

The subject of the publication is to discuss the amendments to the Labor Code that are to come into force, regarding remote work, employee sobriety checks, rules for concluding employment contracts for a trial period, the introduction of new information obligations for the employer, the introduction of the employee’s right to apply for a change of working conditions once a year, new termination of fixed-term employment contracts, the employee’s right to remain a simultaneous employment relationship or other contractual relationship with another employer, additional breaks at work, additional 2-day leave from work and the introduction of a 5-day carer’s leave along with the assessment of these regulations.

Photovoltaic cells are now seen as the most promising source of renewable energy. Compared with wind power plants, photovoltaic installations have much better predictability and stability of operation. Unfortunately, their main disadvantage is the diurnal cyclicity of electricity production, which, in addition, is quite far from the graph of variability of energy demand in the power system. At the moment, the energy production of photovoltaic installations on the territory of our country is still at a relatively low level, and therefore there are no major problems with its development for the time being, as in this case a relatively moderate reduction in the power of blocks of thermal power plants around the twelfth hour of the day is sufficient. However, the rapid increase in installed capacity of photovoltaic panels, which is currently being observed, will soon make the management of surplus energy generated during peak generation a serious problem. In principle, the only known way to store very large amounts of electricity, on the order of several tens of GWh, is to use pumped storage power plants for this purpose. The article briefly discusses the existing pumped storage power plants in our country, giving the values of the parameters that characterize them. It also discusses unfinished and planned in the past investments in the construction of new pumped storage power plants. It is shown that the return to the concepts abandoned in the past for the construction of several large pumped storage power plants of the order of 1,000 MW is now a matter of priority, if only we want to think seriously about the further development of photovoltaics in Poland.

The subject of the article concerns a widely fairly well-known archaeological monument, which is a clay disk from Phaistos. It is widely believed that the disk from Phaistos is an authentic object, and that the puzzling marks imprinted on its surface, 241 in number, represent the recording of some text in some as yet undetermined natural language. Opinions questioning the authenticity of the artifact under consideration are relatively few. Also, relatively few researchers claim that the Phaistos disk does not contain any natural language text recording at all, as its original purpose was quite different, for example, it could have been a game board for some unknown game. The authors of the article decided to treat the Phaistos disk as a source of information, for which they then determined the value of its entropy. The result obtained is somewhat surprising, since the entropy value calculated by the authors for the Phaistos disk has a very similar value to the entropy of texts written in selected modern natural languages. This leads to the conclusion that it is highly probable that the Phaistos disk does indeed contain a record of some text in some natural language. On the other hand, the key issue at present remains the 100% proof of the authenticity of the artifact under consideration, for which, unfortunately, it is necessary to carry out invasive thermoluminescence tests, for which, so far, there is no permission from the authorities of the museum where the Phaistos disk is kept.

The subject of consideration are the conclusions from the implementation of the extension of the functionality of the
Wizlink® tool software with a breakthrough solution addressing the problem of «broken bot syndrome». With the increase in the practical use of RPA robots in organizations that automate the activities of employees in interaction with applications, problems revealed the scale of which could not be predicted before the implementation of automation. One of them is the problem of the RPA robot not completing the entire set of activities provided for in its scenario. The solution to this problem was the development and implementation of innovative quasi-transaction mechanisms of the robot. The solution is modelled on transaction monitors (CICS, Tuxedo) and the ACID transaction model. Thanks to this, in the vast majority of cases, the robot is able to automatically repeat the interrupted transaction or withdraw it. However, a robot referring to business application screens does not have such freedom of action as database management systems. Hence, the developed mechanism was called quasi-transactional, because it is not a fully universal solution.

IT companies are constantly looking for effective methods of software development. Typically, these approaches are tailored to the type of software development work. The most popular are the agile, lean and proactive (classic) approaches. The study will assess the methodology that synergistically combines the agile and lean approaches. Representatives of these approaches are Scrum and Kanban. As a result of this assessment, optimal solutions for software development teams will be proposed. A case study of using a solution combining agile and lean approaches will be presented.

The development of new technologies has contributed to the creation of new tools which enable disabled persons to communicate with their surroundings, including use of internet network resources and education. Nowadays, when so many people have moved their activity, including their professional activity, into the network environment, even people with limited mobility and speech can function actively in society. Applications, which coupled with equipment recording eye movement may provide an aid to improving computer skills, are presented and compared in the paper. Solutions that do not require large financial resources are presented. These are shown to be very valuable, and this has been demonstrated by performance tests and a usability assessment of particular configurations formulated by a user unable to speak and diagnosed with quadriplegic cerebral palsy since the birth. The information provided in the article can be used by persons who want to enable their charges to communicate independently with a small financial outlay.

Rozwój nowych technologii przyczynił się do powstania nowych narzędzi, które umożliwiają osobom niepełnosprawnym komunikację z otoczeniem, w tym korzystanie z zasobów sieci internetowej oraz edukację. W dzisiejszych czasach, kiedy tak wiele osób przeniosło swoją aktywność, w tym zawodową, do środowiska sieciowego, nawet osoby z ograniczoną sprawnością ruchową i mową mogą aktywnie funkcjonować w społeczeństwie. W artykule przedstawiono i porównano aplikacje, które w połączeniu z urządzeniami rejestrującymi ruch gałek ocznych mogą stanowić pomoc w doskonaleniu umiejętności obsługi komputera. Przedstawiono rozwiązania, które nie wymagają dużych nakładów finansowych. Wykazano, że są one bardzo wartościowe, a świadczą o tym testy wydajnościowe oraz ocena użyteczności poszczególnych konfiguracji sformułowanych przez użytkownika niemogącego mówić i zdiagnozowanego od urodzenia z czterokończynowym porażeniem mózgowym. Informacje zawarte w artykule mogą być wykorzystane przez osoby, które chcą umożliwić swoim podopiecznym samodzielną komunikację przy niewielkich nakładach finansowych.

This article reviews the evolution of planning and considers the answer to the question of what the approach to budgeting in uncertain times should look like. According to the author, this problem has gained particular importance during the ongoing crisis, as well as the experience of war, and earlier the pandemic. Looking for an answer to the question of which organizational model is most adequate in the current crisis, Lalux’s typology of organization paradigms and Vilber’s theory of consciousness development were used. Organizational models are represented by colour names – from red to violet. Lalux’s typology, which ends with turquoise organization, was extended by the author with the concept of violet organization. According to the author, the need to indicate a new model of organization results from the effects of the current crisis that a human being must face. The work examines how individual organizational paradigms translate
into the approach to budgeting.

This paper proposes a broad perspective for studying the influence of cultural dimensions and their influence on the process of choosing conflict management styles Definition of both culture and that of conflict are presented. Analytical review of research on the conflict styles and their relation with dimensions of culture are presented in this article. Within the paper following cultural dimensions are considered in the context of conflict management styles: individualism and collectivism, high and low power distance as well as high and low uncertainty avoidance. All models of cultural dimensions are considered within the cultural dimensions framework of Hofstede (1981). In case of individualism there is preference for an avoiding style of conflict management and in collectivist cultures typical choice is that of compromising and obliging conflict style. In case of high power distance avoiding conflict style is likely to be chosen by members of High Power cultures. Few studies cover the problem of power distance and conflict style preference, however, we may assume that the individual will chose conflict style that allows him to maintain either low or high power distance typical for his own culture. Finally the paper shows connection of low uncertainty avoidance and the choice of collaborative and compromising conflict styles. The implications of conflict resolution styles across cultures for the future research and implementation in organizations as well as in international relations are discussed.