Olaf Flak

University of Silesia in Katowice
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Education: PhD in Economy (University of Economics, Katowice), BSs Eng. in Electronics (Silesian Univ. of Technology, Gliwice).

Experience: Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia (since 2010), Assistant Professor at University of Economics in Katowice (2002-2012). Scientist and a specialist in business management, a trainer and a business consultant, Managing Director in a consulting company konsultanci24.pl.

Research area: Investigating how automatic pattern recognition techniques can be applied in the management science. Several projects which concerned detection actions taken by a manager and his/her subordinates in an organization by using online management tools, recording information about actions as numeric data. The scientific and practical goal of such pattern recognition is to recognize patterns of users’ actions, and finally, generating automatically some prompts and advice for users. In the future: to create an artificial manager which could conduct some operations in team management.

Kinga Hoffmann
University of Economics in Katowice
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Education: PhD in Sociology (University of Wrocław)

Experience: Assistant profesor at the University of Economics in Katowice, Department of Human Resources Management (since 2011). A scientist, an academic teacher in people management in organizations, a soft skills trainer.

Research area: Measuring the effectiveness of trainings and other activities in the field of HRM, issue of the work-life balance and placing it in the area of HR function within the organization. The author of publications on measuring the effectiveness of HRM practices and development of human resources in organization.