Introduction The dynamics of changes that occur in the modern world in social, economic or interpersonal terms may raise some concerns. The place and significance of human in the society of the 21st century becomes more and more radical. Some inhabitants of our globe believe in the sanctity of life, others treat people as objects. In a modern enterprise, a manager inspired by the humanistic trend of managing people should put human in the centre of his interests, so that the employee is not a tool for pursuing a goal, it is his work and himself that should be the target (Czarniawska 2015). Therefore, recognizing the appropriateness of “humanism” in management, one can get the impression that the term human resource management has a pejorative aspect. This is because the term resource is an economic value regarding quantity, the fact of accumulation of some goods (Stachowiak 2015). Going deep into the literature of the subject, one must deny the way of thinking that would demonize human resource management and put it on par with the classic capitalist practice and its approach to the place of human in the organization (Milewski, 1999). The evolution of human resource management allows us to see that human is the most important asset of the company (Szaban 2012), which had already been noticed in the definition formulated by Armstrong, who assumed, among others, it can create convenient, flexible working conditions that would be conducive to mobilizing the employees' energy and creativity (Penc 1996). Conducting a free discussion of various definitions of HRM (Jamka 2011), one would be tempted to say that human resource management is a multi-faceted and socially responsible process of intellectual co-existence of all employees in a given organization run by sustainable leaders. When decomposing this proposal for the definition of HRM, one should pay attention to the fact that human is a social being and everyone is individual, feeling differently, having different needs (Wziątzek-Staśko 2013), hence the need for multi-faceted, even interdisciplinary, attitude towards the employee to properly implement such HRM tasks as training, motivation or employee evaluation. The most appropriate person for carrying out such HRM activities will be the leader who bases his actions on the concept of sustainable development (Knap-Stefaniuk, Sapiński 2015). The intellectual coexistence, similar to the natural definition of the term of cohabitation, would result in new solutions, proposals and healthy competition in order to meet one's own needs, as well as the needs of co-workers and the organization itself. I deeply believe that the lecture of chapters presented in this monograph will result for every recipient in new ideas or solutions in the field of human resources management. The aim of this book is to present a broad view of the human resources management process in an interdisciplinary aspect involving an international group of authors from Poland, Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine. Reading the book will provide the recipients with new inspiration to conduct research in the area of the place of human in the organization, it will also bring methods and techniques of managing the capital of every human being. The interdisciplinary aspect of the monographs is presented by the variety of perspectives in different chapters, from the point of view of management, philosophy, pedagogy, political science, theology and psychology. I express my deep conviction that new solutions presented in the book as well as the interesting conclusions from the research conducted in literature sources will be interesting for recipients presenting various fields of knowledge and will contribute to further scientific considerations. I would like to warmly thank Mr Jerzy Dec, Chancellor of the University of Economics and Humanities in Bielsko-Biała, for the invaluable help in publishing the book. I am also grateful to reviewers led by prof. Elena Sadchenko for their valuable comments, precision, professionalism and patience in the process of reviewing the chapters. Odessa 2017 Aleksander Łukasz Sapiński
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