Analysis of use of selected improvement instruments in university management systems

The article constitutes a theoretical-empirical study concerning possible improvement instruments that can be implemented in the management systems of Poland’s public, economic universities. The theoretical part of the article concerns critical analysis of literature relating to improvement and improvement instruments dedicated to the examined universities. In the empirical part of the article, analysis of use of improvement instruments was done by employing the following methods: case study, standardized questionnaire, documents analysis and deduction. The analysis concerned: knowledge about instruments, their usage, instruments’ assessment and directions of possible improvements of management systems of the examined universities.