Gospodarowanie kapitałem ludzkim w instytutach naukowo-badawczych – wnioski z badań

The article presents the results of a study into the degree to which the tools are used that support managing the human capital (GKL) in the group of research institutes affiliated to the Ministry of Economy. The group includes 71 institutes, 45 of which agreed to participate in the research. A questionnaire was used in the study, that contained 14 questions ordered in the way paralleling the order of actions undertaken when employing a new person. They concerned: forms of planning the executive staff, selection of offers gathered during the employment procedure, the use of introductory programs for new employees, the frequency of studying the new employees' training needs, the ways of assessing the employees' effectiveness, assessing the effectiveness of trainings after they are concluded, the use of motivating tools, assessing the jobs, compiling descriptions of jobs, the range of responsibility of the personnel management, the use of computer systems of information about the human potential. In studying particular parts of the staff process the standard procedures of modern GKL and the specific features of the studied group were the reference points.