Zeszyt Naukowy (56)

Edition: 2020

Articles count: 4

We are pleased to present a new issue of the Scientific Journal of WSZiB which includes articles on present-day issues of management.

1. IMPACT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON COMPANY IMAGE

lic. Anna Ślusarek, dr inż. Dominika Woźny

The essence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in organization’s activities is to take into account social problems, the issues of natural environment protection and the relationships with its stakeholders. Functioning in harmony with the environment, and particularly the care for natural environment, has an impact on the organization’s public image. The article presents the responsibility for natural environment as an element of CSR. It presents CSR as a strategy of building company’s image. On the basis of the author’s survey an analysis was conducted of the impact of environmental CSR on company image, with a particular consideration of a bank.

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2. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF SHARE PRICE VOLATILITY OF SELECTED COMPANIES BELONGING TO WIG-INDEX IN 2015-2020

mgr Joanna Dreżewska, dr hab. inż. Tomasz Niedoba

The aim of this article is to characterize the volatility of share prices of companies belonging to WIG20 and the WIG20 index itself using statistical methods. The share prices of the companies were subject to deep fluctuations in the selected time period. The correlation analysis shows a random nature of the changes. The analysis of the remaining indicators indicates sector connections of companies, i.e. share prices of companies with a similar profile are correlated with one other. The applied method of backward stepwise regression allowed to build a model to predict changes in the WIG20 index with 70% certainty.

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3. ROLE OF AUDIT IN QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

dr inż. Piotr Wojciechowski

Internal audits are a requirement of quality management standards. Company management is responsible for scheduled implementation of audits. Auditors must be provided with adequate working conditions, including management’s commitment and support. A development of an efficient audit team is crucial in the achievement of specified quality objectives. Organizations with a committed management team have a higher compliance level with quality standards requirements than organizations with a tendency to transfer the responsibility to the representatives of management.

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4. BUSINESS PROCESSES IN PRESENT-DAY COMPANIES PERFORMED BY IT SYSTEMS

lic. Joanna Wrona

Competition on the market forces companies to improve their effectiveness. Thus, every company uses various IT management systems to operate in a more efficient and competitive way. The purpose of IT systems that are implemented in companies is to accomplish their business processes. Business processes are a network of interrelated activities, procedures and tasks that are performed either sequentially or parallelly to transform inputs into outputs that are expected by customers. The article presents business processes in a present-day company that are accomplished with the use of integrated IT systems. The article also includes an assessment of the use of IT systems in business processes.

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