'BIZNES meble.pl' international edition 2/2019

52 industry • economics of values biznes meble.pl | international edition 2/2019 Marek Hryniewicki: I want to start with history. There is a lot of talk today about employees. Everywhere we hear that ‘the people are the company’, that ‘people are the company’s greatest cap- ital’, etc. In a way, it is understandable – with low unemployment it is really difficult to find an employee and no less difficult to keep them. But it wasn’t al- ways like that. A decade ago, this ‘great- est capital’ was pushed out – I do not like the term, but because it is rooted in public consciousness, I will use it here – to work on ‘junk contracts’, and hun- dreds of thousands of people, especially young, but not only, began to look pro- fessional happiness outside of Poland. So then –moving to the question – isn’t it too late for the attitude we are dis- cussing today? And the second ques- tion related to this issue: are employers credible in this pro-employee attitude? Maciej Karnicki: I can of course say what it looks like from the perspective of our com- pany. For sure, all those years we have been operating in Poland, we, Polish managers have learned many elements of econom- ic life. On the one hand, we got to know the DNA and organizational culture of the company built by the founder of Swiss Kro- no – Mr. Ernst Kaindl. On the other – we also had to go ‘our way’ and learn many things the hard way. For several years, we After the lecture given by prof. Jerzy Hausner (we publish it earlier) during the conference ‘Economics of values: man – company – relations. Autonomy and cooperation as a tool for effective management in the furniture industry’ there was also a discussion panel held. Besides prof. Jerzy Hausner its participants were: Mirosław Wolski (Schattdecor), Maciej Karnicki (Swiss Krono) and Marcin Barański (Vox). Extensive fragments of it are presented below. The discussion was led by Marek Hryniewicki (the ‘BIZNES meble.pl’ monthly). How to build social capital of trust and cooperation? Edited by Marek Hryniewicki, photo by Tomasz Markowski From the left: Marek Hryniewicki (the ‘BIZNES meble.pl’ monthly), Mirosław Wolski (Schattdecor), Maciej Karnicki (Swiss Krono), Marcin Barański (Vox) and prof. Jerzy Hausner.