Paradoksy w zarządzaniu kapitałem ludzkim w ocenie menedżerów

Paradoxes in the management of human capital are the subject of this article. The text contains theory-cognitional part which systematises knowledge about paradoxes in management and empirical part based upon the survey research conducted in the group of 45 Polish managers. The aim of research was the identification of the most important paradoxes in the area of people management in enterprises in the perception of the highest senior staff. Due to the lack of representativeness in the number of participants in experiment, the research had a pilote nature. The results are treated as a starting point to word hypothesis for further and deeper research. The paradoxes in managers’ appraisal are: the necessity of reaching high and measurable effects with simultaneous taking into account humanistic dimension of management on board, building and keeping high level of the engagement of employees loosely related to an employer because of time employment; the necessity to reconcile employee short working time in a company with the provision of access to key information and sensitive organisational knowledge.