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Professional Development
in the Five Hundred Largest
Polish Enterprises
Results of Own Research
Tadeusz Oleksyn, Justyna Bugaj, and Izabela Stan´czyk
INTRODUCTION
Professional development is one of the functions of human resource management (HRM) that is of par-
ticular importance for many reasons. First, an economy based on knowledge develops, and we aim at a
knowledge society and, further in future—let us hope so—towards a society of wisdom. (As the ancient
Greeks—including Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle—claimed, wisdom is more than knowledge as it is
additionally combined with the skill of using this knowledge in one’s life and activity