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CHANGE MANAGEMENT IN POLISH COAL MINING ENTERPRISES

Aurelia Rybak

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The article presents research on the capacity of Polish mining enterprises to introduce organizational changes. The main difficulties, which are problems arising in the introduction of changes in enterprises are primarily generated by the human factor. Moreover, the efficiency of the organization during the process of change depends largely on the productivity of employees. Therefore, our change management research focuses to the greatest extent on the situation of people in the organization. The authors carried out an anonymous expert survey, which made it possible to obtain information on the state of changes introducing process in mining enterprises. The experts were asked 15 questions. The article presents 9 of those, which provided the most useful information. Analysis of the obtained data allowed the detection of most significant change management irregularities in mining enterprises and the factors that can increase the ability of mining companies to change. Obtained information allowed the detection of most significant change management irregularities in Polish mining enterprises, typical pitfalls in the process of change and also revealed possible measures that will enable to increase the ability of mining companies to change.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2018/1.3/s03.021

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