Research Area

Topics of research realized in collaboration with foreign centers

• Western implantations directed by labour in Polish enterprises, Groupe de Sociologie du Travail, Universite Paris VII, France
• Situation of work and industrial relations in transformation processes, Department of Sociology, University of Tampere, Finland
• "Work and socialchange (exchange of students, participation in conferences)" University Otto von Guericke in Magdeburg, Germany
• Work, firms, trade unions, Chuo University in Tokio, Japan (collaboration of 14 countries)

Own research topics

• Institutional infrastructure of social changes in economy (1994-1996)
• Communication of risk in local society's development (1997)
• Enterprises' behavior in process of change in social-economic order (1997)
• Milieu values in social marketing and Public Relations (1998)
• Enterprises' behavior in process of change in social-economic order (1998)
• Promotion of balanced development in regions on example of Euroregion Pro Europa Viadrina (1999)
• Identity and Organizational Culture of Polish Industrial Enterprises (1999)
• Attitude towards Work and Labour Union III (1999)
• Organizational Culture and Human Resources Management
• Temporal dimension of Polish managers' life and work. Biographical analysis. (2001- 2004)
• Leadership styles of Polish producing firms' managers (cooperation with KBN 2004)
• Social World of Pet Owners (2001-2005)
• Enterprising activity and strategies of coping with unemployment: narrations, identities, trajectories (2004-2005)
• Psychological terror in workplace in an interactional approach (2004- )
• People at work: application of visual sociology strategies in researching situation of work (2005)
• Images of locality: province in eyes of locals and newcomers. Application of visual sociology (beginning- 2005)