Competencies are a component of human capital and one of the most important assets of an enterprise. This book illustrates the organisational conditions of innovativeness, which is the relationship between strategy, structure, organisational culture and leadership and knowledge management and innovation management.

Katarzyna Szczepäska-Woszczyna is Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Vice Rector for Science and Education at WSB University, Poland.

1. The manager in a traditional and modern organisation. 2. Managerial competencies as a subject of research. 3. Innovation and innovativeness. Determinants of the innovativeness of an organisation. 4. Managerial competencies and their impact on the innovativeness of an enterprise.