ABSTRACT
Modern organizations experience a change that is not only semantic in nature: Employees are no longer human capital components-they become owners and investors of the capital (Morawski 2006). The change in the importance of employees and their intellectual capital is related not only to the processes forming megatrends; the key role of specialists is connected, inter alia, with the ever-narrowing specialization, a rapid technical development, IT development creating new opportunities for communication and transfer of knowledge. The consequence for enterprises is that they perceive results achieved in the area of innovation as their strategic objectives. This change has not only pushed routine or problem-solving processes into the background, but it has made the success of a company conditional upon the performance of employees.
