Danuta Kunecka

Introduction and aim of the study. Professional satisfaction is one of the most important elements determining the quality of life of every human being. Its level can be determined by a number of different factors. The aim of this study has been to identify the most important ones in relation to the nursing environment in Poland.

Material and methods.A study has been conducted with a method of diagnostic survey using a standardized questionnaire in a group of 1066 economically active Polish nurses.

Results.Results of track modeling in the studied group testify to the fact that among Polish nurses the greatest impact on the level of professional satisfaction have: the company's image, the atmosphere in the workplace and performed tasks. The level of remuneration does not have a direct impact on the job satisfaction in studied environment. Instead, it has a significant impact on displeasure perceived by nurses.

Conclusions.Due to the fact that the level of professional satisfaction in a group of Polish nurses is significantly affected by parts characterized as real motivators, in order to raise its level managers should primarily skillfully choose management style from among those that are based on the thesis that the employee is the most important asset for any, viable and functional organization.

Changes happening in the health care sector in Poland over the last few years, have influenced changes in human resources management. However, cost restrictions, reconciliation of financial effectiveness and social effectiveness appear extremely difficult and may bring multiple negative or unethical behaviours. Therefore ethical dimensions in the process of management gains particular value. Up until now, the ethical context in research in health care centres has been related to the relations of: patients – employees of the medical service centre. Considerations on the term of an ethical company, health care centres have been seen as a particular form of health-economical organizations, which only recently could be associated with people that are employed in it. Despite the fact that the functioning of health care centres in Poland has been described multiple times in numerous publications, only a few deal with the subject of human resource management, and even if they do so only occasionally are ethical issues in the process of HMR dealt with. This has been a reason why the author of this paper started research in this field. The aim of this paper has been to analyse and evaluate ethical aspects accompanying HRM in health care centres in 2009–2011.

The article presents the findings of a documentary research project about a colony of Finnish houses in Warsaw, Poland. Due to a specific character of the field site, many aspects of the study resembled the creation of a classic ethnographic monograph. The paper discusses the history of Warsaw’s first postwar housing project from its construction in 1945 until now, as seen through the lenses of both historical sources and personal memories of the Finnish houses’ tenants. The article examines various aspects of research methodology for studying contemporary cultural phenomena within urban space, such as protection of the interviewees’ privacy or the co-editing of quotations used in research articles. Moreover, by addressing the role of intangible heritage in the creation of cultural townscape, the authors contribute to the ongoing debate about the future of the Finnish houses colony.