Employees’ involvement in continuous improvement processes of the enterprises in Poland – barriers and the ways of reducing them

University of Gdańsk, Organization and Management Institute, Management Department, 101 Armii Krajowej St., 81-824 Sopot, Poland

^* Corresponding author: piotr.walentynowicz@ug.edu.pl

Abstract

In the writing, the results of empirical studies regarding the barriers of regular employees’ involvement in continuous improvements processes of the enterprises in Poland and the ways of breaking the barriers identified on the basis of the related literature and the author’s researches in this matter were presented. Because of the fact that the examined managers and regular employees of companies were of slightly different opinions regarding the researched phenomenon, in the final compilation of the main barriers, the barriers determined by both - the first and the second group of respondents were included. This issue strongly fits into the subject of companies’ sustainable development because without the effective involvement from the employees’ part in these processes, there is no sustainable performance (including CSR) or successful continuous improvement of the companies.