The total quality management (TQM) revolution of the 1980s and recent emergence of business reengineering (RE) has shifted the focus of quality improvement efforts from individual products to processes which lead to the creation and supply of these products. The literature, however, lacks a...

The present paper briefly characterizes main problems and trends in innovation activity of Slovak enterprises during 1990s. It is based on three questionnaire surveys (1990, 1996, 1998) in the sample of large and medium sized, mainly manufacturing companies. Even the last survey shows that...

This article contains the results of research on the evaluation of the training offer addressed to the medical staff of one of the largest Polish specialist hospitals. The authors have used surveys addressed to employees: doctors and nurses. On the basis of numeral data received from the...