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Lena Grzesiak
Scientific and social media profiles
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
19 DECEMBER 2025 (FRIDAY)
16:45 - 17:45
(room 336 or 301) students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
21 DECEMBER 2025 (SUNDAY)
14:30 - 15:00
students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
9 JANUARY 2026 (FRIDAY)
16:45 - 17:30
students who wish to attend office hours are kindly asked to contact me by email at least 24 hours before the scheduled office hours
11 JANUARY 2026 (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
16 JANUARY 2026 (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
23 JANUARY 2026 (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
