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Dr hab. Izabela Stańczyk
Dr hab. Izabela Stańczyk
ORCID: 0000-0002-1496-130X

Hab. Doctor of Economics in Manage­ment, Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Head of the Department of Management Theory and Human Cap­ital – Institute of Economics, Finance, and Management – Jagiellonian University. Her research interests focus on HR issues, with particular emphasis on the perception of organizational support, employment restructuring, com­petency management, employee organizational behavior, personnel consulting, and new trends in HR, including Green HRM and AI in HR processes. She is a speaker, panelist, and expert at scientific and business conferences. She has authored or co-authored approximately 100 HR publications in Poland and abroad. She has extensive pro­fessional experience in HR within a capital group, span­ning over a decade, in the areas of restructuring and pro­fessional development.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0032-6186.2026.3.4
JEL: E24, J24, J51, J53

The purpose of the paper is to identify the main problems related to the functioning of trade unions in capital groups. In particular, the paper deals with a sense of fairness, coop­eration, and the importance of profit distribution in terms of bargaining positions. The study included four different trade unions. Interviews were conducted with 35 union’s representatives and with 5 top managers (members of the board). The initial stage of the study was followed by inter­views with representatives of the top management bodies of a few capital groups.

Keywords: trade unions; capital groups; sense of fairness; cooperation