Regional management, regionalism and region in Russian Federation
Regional sciences in Russia have a long and rich history. From a historical point of view, it’s beginnings can be found in the early XX century – during the time of organising the Soviet system and economy within the framework of ZSRR, when the science of regional management had led to creating many practical social solutions, and some, though they are now attributed to other sciences, economical.
Importance of regional sciences had risen a lot in the past 20 due to changes in national economy as a whole caused by the process of switching to free market which creates the need for working out new laws, that could regulate reshaping the economy on a regional level, including at the same time the needs of whole country and its economy.
It is possible to notice regularities connected with regulative and real practices within the regional management science, that can be summmed up by saying that officially declared political and economical goals are not always in relations to actual social and economical practices. As a consequence, a problem of defining the real state of matters within this domain.
As a consequence, it was necessary to assess the true conditions existing within this field through analysing particular topics connected to that domain of science.
As a result of conducting an analise a belief was made, that the main subject of concepts of regional management, as well as actual political decisions regarding this issue was the need to adapt regions and their economies and population to the current and future production needs, most commonly on the national level.

Evolution of paradigm but forming concept of market orientate of region management
Article presents short characteristic of basic change in the midst. These changes lead showing new paradigm in management, which must take into consideration formation of postindustrial, information and free time society. This civilization paradigm drawn new regard on management of territorial units. It has inclined author for presenting influence of market orientation on region management.

Market trends and concepts in the field of public administration management as a response to the needs of public administration reform
This article aims to outline the most important issues for human resources management and reforms in the public sector. It presents modern concepts and solutions which may be a response to this need change taking in consideration the examples provided by modern companies and the changing role of the State.

Analysis of the efficiency management of local government against the challenges of public administration
Modern management of a local government implies the use the various instruments supporting the decision making process. Long-term financial planning is becoming a necessity in the face of constant government deficit of local government. However, system solutions requiring the government to draw up various planning documents do not always produce the expected result. Perhaps the same definition of indicators, the corresponding limits allowable debt (in modified form in relation to the previous limits of debt) would have been sufficient to local government to draw more attention to effectiveness public spending, rather than decreasing the efficiency of their actions.

The impact of procedures and audit activities on the management of local government units
In today’s local government territorial function of specific rules and processes that serve to achieve specific objectives and results. But the very existence and functioning of the operating principles and processes does not guarantee the full success of the government, if they are not accompanied by appropriate mechanisms for internal audit. Internal audit is an activity independent, objective assurance and advisory, which aims to add value and improve the organization’s operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by systematically and disciplined approach to evaluate and improve the effectiveness of risk management, control and corporate governance. Internal audit is primarily a tool to help managers of the unit, giving the possibility of efficient and effective management of all processes. Internal audit is also an instrument to support the majority decision-making processes undertaken by managers, through careful management of all resources held by the entity.

Axiological aspects of management in evolution of sustainable development
The effectiveness of management is determined by axiological principles in each type of organization. Within this field a priority category is ethical value system. The shortages in ethics axiology influence on the pace of sustainable development implementation and pave trajectories in evolution of this problematic. This results also from the scale of scientific interest what was not a subject for in-depth bibliometric analysis till now. The aim of this paper is presentation of own research results on the sustainable development evolution featured by the axiological aspects of management in the bibliometric approach. For the research purposes there have been selected two principal for effective management value systems, i.e. ethical (which includes: liberty, freedom/dignity, responsibility, freedom of conscience, respect, tolerance, charity, right of dissidence, right of indifference, honesty) and system of basic values (which includes: life, health, survival, happiness, luck, confidence, well-being/wellbeing/life satisfaction).

Public relations in the social space
The hereby article presents the way the public relations of the social space becomes either the channel of propaganda or democratic society values. The notion of public relations is defined, and the issue of is specified.

The impact of technologies on the tourism company management
This paper attempts to present the impact of new communication and information technologies (ICT) and other information on the management of tourism enterprises. The analysis is trying to show the impact of computer information systems (CRS, GDS) data management systems, customer management systems (CRM), advanced telecommunications systems (WLAN WIMAX) and the Internet both on the efficiency of business processes as well to show their importance for changing of management strategy which takes place in tourism enterprises operating in e- technology environment. This change is referring to the shift away from the application of the concept based on the theory of Porter’s Five Forces (which calling for the competitive struggle between participants of business processes) and replace it with the concept derived from game theory (which prefer the mutual cooperation and communication among tourism enterprises). The overriding goal of the new concept of management is to maximize the added value of new tourism enterprises. The achievement of this goal is possible with the introduction of knowledge and innovation management in that, among other things that use a modern e-technology.

Revitalization Postindustrial Area of Zabłocie
This article is an attempt to present the revitalization process of the postindustrial area of Zabłocie. For many years, this part of Cracow has been perceived as incoherent and chaotic. In order to restore the value of the site and to give it new functions there have been actions taken which aim to change the image of this place.

Organizational culture of schools from different countries
The paper contains the analysis of organizational culture of schools and educational institutions. It is based on research carried out during the Erasmus Intensive Programme that took place in Murcia (Spain) in July 2010 among the participants of the course. The author presents relevant theoretical background and literature review on organizational culture issue and then presents method of research, analysis of the data with following conclusions and recommendations.

Challenges faced by school principal in their daily work
The article presents the challenges faced by school principals as a result of the processes specific to the modern world, analyzed in the literature. In this context, the most problematic issues in the daily work of school principals in Poland were presented. The research conducted by the Educational Research Institute indicates that from the perspective of the school principal the most problematic are administrative and legal issues, increasing bureaucratic requirements. Other problems identifi ed relate to the school staff and management of the school employees, school relations with the external environment, to a lesser extent, educational processes. Many of the described problems result from the demographic decline.