Socjoekonomiczne aspekty zatrudnienia inżynierów w zakładzie pracy

Abstract

The article constitutes a part of a wider research project aimed at investigating social conditions of engineers' activity in industrial enterprises („Work and Its Conditions", CPBP 09.09.10). The article characterizes engineers as a socio-professional category, of great significance at a workplace. The author points out to a socio-economic aspect of employing engineers. This aspect is underestimated in social policy sensu largo, and especially in the employment policy. Here, there is need to perceive interdependencies between employment and motivation to work, employees' attitudes, socio-professional mobility, and their pre-retirement and retirement activity. The author also presents the outcome of empirical research on engineers' employment. Here, he comments on the level of their professional qualifications obtained in educational institutions, the engineers' adaptation at a workplace, their professional careers and activity, including their participation in innovative activity. In concluding remarks the author formulated some practical postulates concerning the policy of employing and educating engineers.