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Table 1. Information on study participants.
Participants of the research in numbers
The number of selected participants 290
Number of respondents 120
female male
Gender 46 74
20-30 31-40 41-50 >51
Age 10 64 37 9
10
Work experience in a managerial position 6 31 44 39
Source: author’s research.
In the course of the study, information about management activities that have the greatest
positive impact on the innovation potential of employees has been obtained. Opinions of
managers of insurance companies on this question are presented in the Table 2. It contains
the name of the management activities and the number of respondents who indicated it.
Table 2. Management activities selected by the respondents.
The number of
Management activity
indications
E-learning 88
Usage of head-hunter in the recruitment 69
Coaching 74
Individually customized training 112
Individual career planning 49
Introduction of competence models 88
Individual bonus system 46
Flexible forms of employment 69
Creating creative groups 62
Established principles of employees’ control 59
Source: author’s research.
Obtained results should be discussed in terms of their usefulness and the factors that affect
them. In the further part of this article the most important conclusions obtained from the
research are indicated.
Discussion and summary
It is essential to interpret the results of the study in this part of the work. However, the
analysis should start with information concerning the respondents; especially in the case of
this study the characteristics of the respondent may have a significant impact on the
achieved result.
It is worth noticing the high representation of men in the study as it may affect the obtained
results, for instance, in situations in which men are managers of women employees. Gender
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