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Lena Grzesiak
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Job description
Assistant Professor
MAIN CONDUCTED SUBJECTS IN POLISH AND ENGLISH
- HR controlling and cost labour
- Dysfunctions and Pathologies in HR
- HRM Standards
- Performance Appraisal and Renumeration
- Professional Skills Development
- Success on the labour market
- Trends in HRM
- Introduction to Internal Audit
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
- Internal audit and internal control
- HR risk
- HR compliance
- HR controlling
- effectiveness
- human capital (management and measurement)
- frauds in organisations
- HRA (Human Resources Accounting)
- HRM Standards
- HR Dysfunctions and Pathologies
- qualitative research methodology
- People Analytics
- Control function of management
- contemporary concepts of human resource management
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
- science publications - 29, including
- in Polish: 17
- in English: 12
- active participation in scientific conferences - 19
- speech in Polish: 13
- speech in English: 6
- participation in research projects:
- „Education of internal auditors” (subsidy for young scientists)
- „The perception of internal audit in the society and its impact on the determinants of internal audit” (subsidy for young scientists)
- „Personality according to J. L. Holland and preferences in the field of accounting” (interdisciplinary research team)
- main activities promoting science:
- conducting classes for high school students as part of the patron class
- co-writing science blogs
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Human capital and internal audit effectiveness (mainly performance management of internal auditors)
- Experiencing of HR controlling
- HR risk
EDITORS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
- The Institute of Internal Auditors - member
- cooperation with the Editorial Team of the journal "Finance and Financial Law"
Bio
2020 – present: Assistant professor at the Department of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Management, University of Lodz
2020 – PhD in economics in the field of management and quality sciences with a dissertation titled "Human Capital and the Effectiveness of Internal Audit"
2016-2020 – Assistant at the Department of Human Resource Management, University of Lodz
2015-2020 – PhD studies at the University of Lodz, Faculty of Management
2013-2015 – Master's degree in Finance and Accounting, thesis on "Analysis and Evaluation of Fraud in Polish SMEs in Łódź Voivodeship"
2010-2016 – Internships/work in various organizations, including accounting offices and BPO/SSC
2010-2013 – Bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting, thesis on "Evaluation of the Functionality of Internal Audit in SMEs"
Interests
My main scientific interests:
- Human resources cost accounting
- human resources accounting
- HR risk
- human capital measurement
- behavioural aspects of internal auditing
- internal audit and internal control system
- dysfunctions and pathologies in the workplace
- HRM standards
- HR controlling
- HR compliance
- management control function
- contemporary concepts of human resource management
- methodology of scientific research
Achievements
Selected publications:
- Lena Grzesiak, An Internal Audit Expectation Gap in Poland, „ Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Sec. H Oeconomia” (0459-9586), 2021, vol. 55, nr 3, s. 37-50 [DOI] [URL].
- Lena Grzesiak, Analiza rynku pracy dla controllerów personalnych w Polsce, „PRZEGLĄD ORGANIZACJI” (0137-7221), 2021, nr 8, s. 37-44 [DOI] [URL].
- Lena Grzesiak, Internal auditor burnout – an urgent area for research?, „Kwartalnik Nauk o Przedsiębiorstwie” (1896-656X), 2021, vol. 58, nr 1, s. 59-67 [DOI] [URL].
- Lena Grzesiak, Kapitał ludzki jako czynnik skuteczności audytu wewnętrznego (978-8-3822-0629-6), Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź 2021 [DOI] [URL]
- Lena Grzesiak, Postgraduate Education for Internal Auditors Versus Employers’ Expectations, „Edukacja Ekonomistów i Menedżerów” (1734-087X), 2020, vol. 55, nr 1, s. 66-80 [DOI] [URL].
- Lena Grzesiak, Myths on Internal Auditing, „Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie” (2543-8190), 2019, vol. XX, nr 6/1, s. 421-434 [URL].
- Lena Grzesiak, Agnieszka Skoczylas-Tworek, Non-financial Disclosures in the Scope of Diversity Management of Companies Listed in the Respect Index, „Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie” (2543-8190), 2019, vol. XX, nr 6/1, s. 193-207 [URL].
- Lena Grzesiak, Wymagania kompetencyjne stawiane audytorom wewnętrznym w świetle ogłoszeń o pracę - analiza porównawcza, „Edukacja Ekonomistów i Menedżerów” (1734-087X), 2019, nr 1 (51), s. 209-220 [DOI] [URL].
- Lena Grzesiak, Budżetowanie kosztów pracy jako narzędzie controllingu personalnego, „Zeszyty Teoretyczne Rachunkowości” (1641-4381), 2018, nr 97 (153), s. 31-44 [DOI] [URL].
Selected research projects:
- Education of internal auditors "
- "The perception of internal audit in the society and its impact on the determinants of internal audit"
- "Personality according to J. L. Holland and preferences in the field of accounting"
EDITORS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS
- The Institute of Internal Auditors - member
- cooperation with the Editorial Team of the journal "Finance and Financial Law"
Office hours
Assistant Professor
CYCLICAL DUTY
TUESDAY
11:00 - 13:00|Remote office
1. No office hours will be held on the following dates: 11/11, 2/12. Students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
OCCASIONAL DUTY
5 DECEMBER 2025 (FRIDAY)
16:45 - 17:15
Students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
7 DECEMBER 2025 (SUNDAY)
14:30 - 15:30
Students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
12 DECEMBER 2025 (FRIDAY)
16:45 - 17:45
students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
19 DECEMBER 2025 (FRIDAY)
16:45 - 17:45
students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
Matejki 22/26 room: 336 90-237 Łódź
Contact
Assistant Professor
UNIVERSITY OF LODZ
Narutowicza 68, 90-136 LODZ
fax: 00 48 42/665 57 71, 00 48 42/635 40 43
NIP: 724 000 32 43
