ISSN 2080-7279 2009 Volume 01 Number 02 2009 Volume foundations 2/2009 of management INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT Foundations of Management Editor – in - Chief Tadeusz KRUPA Faculty of Management Warsaw University of Technology, Poland e-mail: [email protected] Frequency: Published four issues per year; two regular and two special issues prepared by invited editor(s) Internet: The International Journal - Foundations of Management is currently available on-line at: http://www.wz.pw.edu.pl/s110/foundations-of-management Publishing and Editorial Office : Faculty of Management, Warsaw University of Technology ul. Narbutta 85, 02-524 Warszawa, Poland email: [email protected] tel.: +48 022 849 94 43, 022 234 84 32 fax.: +48 022 849 97 98 Technical Editors: Teresa Ostrowska, [email protected] Katarzyna Rostek, [email protected] Cover Project and Print: Warsaw University of Technology Publishing House ul. 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Tadeusz Krupa CONTENTS Ewa GÓRSKA OPTIMIZATION OF WORKPLACE DESIGN FOR PEOPLE WITH ALTERNATIVE ABILITIES ............... 7 Tadeusz WITKOWSKI, Paweł ANTCZAK, Arkadiusz ANTCZAK PROJECT REALIZATION SCHEDULING AND ITS MULTI CRITERIA EVALUATION ........................... 25 Janusz ZAWIŁA-NIED ŹWIECKI, Maciej BYCZKOWSKI INFORMATION SECURITY ASPECT OF OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT ................................... 45 Jadwiga CHUDZICKA WOMEN SCIENTISTS IN GENDER ORIENTED RESEARCH ...................................................................... 61 Ewa KULI ŃSKA THE MEANING OF PROCESSES ORIENTATION IN CREATION AND REALIZATION OF THE ADDED VALUE.............................................................................................. 81 Teresa OSTROWSKA MANAGEMENT INFORMATION IN ADMINISTRATION SYSTEMS ......................................................... 95 Robert PROKOPCZUK INTEGRATION AND AVAILIBILITY OF DATA – PARADIGMS AND APPLICATIONS ....................... 111 Jan MONKIEWICZ ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT AND REGULATION OF ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: THE CASE OF INSURANCE ........................................................................................................................... 129 Tadeusz KRUPA EVENTS AND EVENT PROCESSES .............................................................................................................. 143 Wojciech NASIEROWSKI A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR FORMALIZATION OF NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS .................................................................................................... 159 Optimization of Workplace Design for People with Alternative Abilities 7 OPTIMIZATION OF WORKPLACE DESIGN FOR PEOPLE WITH ALTERNATIVE ABILITIES Ewa GÓRSKA Faculty of Management Warsaw University of Technology, 02-524 Warszawa, Poland [email protected] Ewa GÓRSKA OPTIMIZATION OF WORKPLACE DESIGN FOR PEOPLE WITH ALTERNATIVE ABILITIES Abstract: An employer who wants to employ a person with alternative disturbances faces a difficult problem of selecting a workstation and tasks suitable to a given person’s disease since even the same case of disease does not guarantee identical organizational solutions of a workstation. However the more complex the movement disfunction, the more difficult the task is. At the same time it is important that work results of a workstation allow achieving complex productivity. The article presents an attempt at elaborating a me- thod aided by a computer system which allows introducing changes or modifications of workstation space, place equipment and facilities or installing additional elements enabling effective and productive work per- formance by a person with precisely defined abilities. Presented results of piloting researches have proven that the elaborated method of aiding decisions while adapting workstations to needs and abilities of people with movement disfunction will bring social and economic benefits. Key words: abilities of disabled people, workstation design, computer support, workstation requirements. 1 Introduction working satisfaction. Inasmuch as there are a lot of companies in Poland, which can pride themselves According to the regulations currently in force, each for having good architectural solutions, adaptation enterprise must be prepared to employ people with of workstations to disabled people’s needs still creates alternative abilities with different types of disabilities. a lot of problems. Fulfilling this criterion requires the introduction of so- As a result of researches a special method which aids called “integration solutions” in all areas of the compa- decision taking process when designing workstations ny’s working environment (technical, economic and for people with alternative abilities and in particular social areas). with alternative disfunction, has been elaborated (this They consist of: research was supported by a grant from the National • adapting buildings and rooms to the needs of people Science Committee No 7 053 16 supervised by Ewa with alternative abilities by abolishing architectural Górska). barriers, which make it very difficult for people Proper researches were preceded by piloting researches with alternative abilities to move around, to examine the scale of the problem, its complexity and • elaborating procedures, which, in a systematic way to estimate potential costs of elaborating and imple- will enable to adapt each workstation to the candi- menting the method. For the piloting researches a test date with a particular impairment, sample was chosen consisting of 100 workstations • creating participation and equal chances mechan- which function in small and medium companies isms leading to work satisfaction which will even- of work protection, and 100 cases of movement diseas- tually lead to self realization and personal develop- es in patients who are registered in companies’ medical ment, and rehabilitation clinics. • linking work motivation with the motivation to earn money so that in result work could lead to fulfill- 2 Problem statement ment of needs and encouragement of more effective work. Legal regulations, both in the