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POROZUMIENIE JAKO FORMA ZARZĄDZANIA
AGREEMENT AS A FORM OF MANAGEMENT

Author(s): Bogusław Nierenberg, Zbigniew Bujak
Subject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Management and complex organizations, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Round Table Talks; Solidarity; agreement; conflict; management;

Summary/Abstract: The starting point for the research presented in the article, the authors made the statement by Mary Parker Follett that the conflict is not a problem in the operation of an organization, because it creates a significant difference in social potential, but the lack of a solution to a given conflict can destroy any organization, including the state. The purpose of this article is to identify an agreement as an effective form of management. The authors traced the origins and effects of various social agreements over the centuries. They analyzed in detail the Polish agreement which went down in history as the Round Table. One of the authors of this text, Zbigniew Bujak, was a participant in these deliberations, so the authors made the ethnography and autoethnography of the organization one of the research tools. As a result of the conducted research, they identified the most important determinants that determine the effectiveness of an agreement or its lack. The authors indicated that an agreement is a sine qua non condition for effective management, regardless of the form and size of the organization.

  • Issue Year: 9/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 579-595
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish