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Focusing on the controlling management method, this book considers the conditions that must be met within a given organization in order for controlling to achieve the desired level of product quality, allowing it to enhance the performance of the organization as a whole. The book describes the influence of each identified group of conditions on the Controlling Effectiveness Model and includes empirical research, conducted at various organizations operating in Poland, that verifies its theoretical assumptions. In terms of analyzing the empirical data, description and statistical inference methods were used, such as students' t-test scores for independent samples, non-parametric r-Pearson correlation and linear regression analysis. Additionally, the book includes moderators and mediators executed using Process Macro for SPSS by Hayes, and multigroup path analysis executed using SPSS AMOS.

Purpose of the article: The contemporary research has shown that controlling as a method of management support is gradually becoming more and more popular and recognised in Polish enterprises. This article focuses on the features of the Polish concept of controlling at each stage of its development. Methodology/methods: The paper is based on the conceptual analysis and conclusions drawn from the literature on the general review of controlling-related papers. It demonstrates the authors' own view on the problem included at each stage of controlling development in Poland. Scientific aim: The aim of the paper is – first of all – to present the evolution of controlling in Poland and to point out the stages of its development. The intention of the authors is also to discuss both in theory and in practice the emerging new trends of this modern method of management support. Findings: The paper presents the evolution of controlling in Poland. The beginnings of controlling in Poland (1989–1994), growing academic and practical interest in controlling (1995–2005) and the start of the 21st century – the golden age of controlling (from 2006 till now) were distinguished as the main stages of controlling development in Poland. Moreover, the paper points to the differences among the Polish and German and American ideas of controlling. Conclusions: It should be emphasised that the trend of Polish intensive development of controlling theory and practice still continues. Controlling has become one of the most popular modern methods of management support in Poland. Despite this, there are few empirical studies into the effectiveness of controlling in Poland. Conducting this research is necessary to identify the best practices in the field of controlling in Poland.

"Various styles of leadership have the potential for positive and negative influence on employees and organization. The monograph offers a new approach and proposes the systematic analysis of negative leadership traits and behaviors through the broadening of existing approaches (based on employees' orientation and organizational orientation) by analyzing them together with a third dimension: leader's traits, which will allow us to analyze the intent of the leader. Based on this approach, the monograph introduces the term: fake leadership, characterized by an emphasis on individual goals of the leader (regardless of their importance for the organization) coupled with intentional anti-employees and anti-organizational behaviours. Such leaders operate with intent to engage in negative behaviors towards employees and organization, simultaneously aiming at hiding such intent. The monograph introduces and empirically verifies various models explaining the mechanisms, through which fake leadership negatively influences job performance of employees and organizational reliability based on intraorganizational trust and positive job-related attitudes (work motivation, job satisfaction, work engagement, organizational commitment), as well as negative job-related attitudes (work disengagement, job dissatisfaction, work demotivation), tend to hide errors, which is coupled with the number of management and employees' errors. These models reference the concept of authentic leadership, which is chosen as a positive alternative to the described fake leadership"--

Intro -- Landscapes of (Un)Belonging: Reflections of Strangeness and Self -- Table of Contents -- Landscapes of (Un)Belonging: Reflections on Strangeness and Self: Introduction -- Part I: Aliens within the Home -- The Archaeology of Shame: Literary Constructions of Asian Subjectivity in the Pacific -- From Ridiculed Minority to National Enemies: Public and Media Reactions to the Homosexual Movement in Serbia -- Part II: Exploring the Boundaries -- Encountering the 'Other', or Encountering the Self? The Construction of Otherness into Voluntourism Experiences -- 'I don't understand you people': Staging Intercultural Conversations in the Drama of Philip Kan Gotanda -- The Imitation of the Other: Little Big Man and Iron Eyes Cody -- Introduction to the Human Terrior: Arts, Authorship and Technology as References for Intercultural Relationships -- Part III: Reconciling the Self and the Stranger -- 'Sometimes it's tough just fitting it all in': Identity Formation and Social Membership among Teenagers in an Immigrant Community in the West of Ireland -- Ours is America: Self and Other Interwoven within the Immigrant Homemaking Myths -- Perception and Enactment of Westernisation among Georgian Youth -- Foreigners and Aliens? Blending the Best of Both Worlds: A Cognitive Approach to Inclusion and Belonging in New Catalan Literature -- Part IV: Depicting Strangeness -- A Disquieting Strangeness: Evocations of the Uncanny in Penelope Siopis's Who is Pinky Pinky? Series -- Visions of the Former Other in Contemporary German Film -- The TV Series Kursadžije: A Ventriloquist for a Serbian Group Identity -- Kul-Touring and the Exoticisation of the Familiar: On Otherness, Alternative and Alteration.