The model of the economies collectivists was based on the centralization and the planning of the decisions of production, so well that we could speak about economy of command. From the very start of the years 1950, Poland seems to have integrated these precepts: workmen and employees implement with the method and discipline the new working methods and investment in their firm. In addition to being a workspace, this one contributes to the improvement of its personnel and their families by its rich and varied social and cultural activities .

But, very quickly and as in the other countries of the Eastern bloc, the model shows the serious limits. Workmen and employees are demotivated by the dehumanization of structtures where the appearance of the discipline and respect is the only logic, by incentives honorary and by the promotions based on the political affiliations and not on the performances. Consequently, the strategy of each one consists in circumventing the instructions and the laws, which does not pose a problem because of their plethoric and contradictory character.

The vicious circle starts in the years 1960 and is accentuated until the end of the regime: absenteeism, falsification of information and corruption, equipment obsolete, technological delay, bad quality of the products, shortage...

At the time of the passage to the economy of the market, the Polish firms were confronted with the difficult challenge to give up the single objective of production to the profit of the re-establishment of the productivity, of the change of the behaviors to work and the rationalization of the operating modes of the firms.

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