Agata Basińska-Zych

WSB Merito University in Poznan

Increasing and changing demands for academic teachers worldwide are leading to different consequences, some of which are negative, such as physical and mental health impairment. With the job demands-resources model and the transactional model of occupational stress adopted as a theoretical framework, a cross-sectional study among Polish academic te...

The main purpose of the paper is to identify the outcomes for employers and employees indicated in research related to workplace health promotion interventions (WHPIs). We investigated what methods are used and what types of organization this type of research is most often carried out in. In addition, the authors attempted to assess to what extent...

Empirical papers on association between physical activity (PA) and professional burnout (PB) and work-related hazards (WRH) in a population of different working adults are still limited. The aim of this chapter is to characterize the level of habitual physical activity of academics working at higher education institutions of Poland, with particular...

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that a diagnosis of leisure behavior of Poznań metropolitan population may help in creating appropriate conditions and programs to provide the residents with a leisure offering focused on active tourism. This paper hypothesizes that using the leisure offering and infrastructure to drive the metropolitan p...

Aim: The main aim of this article is to identify negative health consequences resulting from work overload and lack of work-life balance, as well as to present characteristics of positive healthy behaviors in the workplace as counteracting strategies. The paper is a part of the discussion on the concept of corporate wellness which forms the basis f...

Low level of physical activity is one of the main problems of modern society's health. Research results suggest that Poland is a country characterised by low physical activity, with city dwellers being more active than villagers. So far, the research issues of physical activity of city dwellers have not included a context of a metropolitan area. er...

In the global economy based on knowledge it is metropolises that determine the re-gion's developmental potential. ese are the regions of high population density and of diverse levels of life quality. Apart from intrapersonal and interpersonal features it is also environmental factors that impact on the likelihood of someone participating in physica...

Agata Basińska-Zych1, Bernadeta Hołderna-Mielcarek2 , Alicja Kaiser3 Rural Metropolitan Areas as Sites for Recreational Activity of Their Inhabitants an Example of Poznan Agglomeration Socio-Economic Institute WSB University in Poznań, POLAND ul. Powstańców Wielkopolskich 5, 61-895 Poznań e-mail: agata.basinska-zych@wsb.poznan.pl Mobile: 503 864...

Creating the innovative tourist and recreational offer of the city requires the rec-ognition of consumer behaviors and identifying patterns/models of the interaction between the factors and the behaviors of buyers of a tourist and recreational offer. The article presents the empirical results of surveys conducted in the period from March to June 20...

Leisure Time Behaviours of Shopping Centre Visitors in the Poznan Agglomeration Abstract. The main aim of the paper is to identify leisure time behaviours of shopping centre visitors. The surveys were conducted at five big shopping centres in the Poznan agglomeration, which represented four different generations of shopping centre development. Acco...

The paper focuses on the importance of local government in enterprise development, with particular emphasis on the opinions of the tourism and leisure industry. The main theoretical objective of the paper is to create an extensive analysis of municipal tools supporting entrepreneurship at the local level. The theoretical part of the article is illu...

Doliny rzeczne od dawna stanowiły przedmiot zainteresowania ludzi, zarówno w kontekście społeczno-gospodarczym, jak i w sensie naukowym. W ujęciu holistycznym stanowią one szczególny typ złożonego ekosystemu, a ich struktura przyrodnicza jest niezwykle bogata i cechuje się dużą różnorodnością biologiczną. Dla turysty krajobrazy dolin rzecznych stan...

The main aim of this paper is to assess the activity of local governments (communes) observed in the development of tourism in terms of the economic crisis. The considerations which are presented in the article are based on the results of direct survey research carried out among 49 local governments of Wielkopolska Voivodeship. The results of there...

Article focuses on sport and tourism as important components of place branding process (national, regional and local). At the beginning, the literature in the field of place branding was reviewed. Next, the article discusses the importance of creating brand image on a domestic (national), regional and local (city) scale, including the subjects (sta...

In the light of their own observations and other authors, and contemporary trends – such as the increasing globalization of the world, integration and devolution – very im-portant and necessary scientific task is to compare the impact of local government policy on tourism and recreation field in the selected European countries. Hence, the purpose o...

With the transformation of the polish Civil Service in the 80/90. the local government obtained new regulations and possibilities in the social-economy development. Such of them is building different types of regional partnerships e.g. inter-district unions. The article discusses the essence and significance of inter-district cooperation in the dev...

With the transformation of the polish Civil Service in the 80/90. the local government obtained new regulations and possibilities in the social-economy development. Such of them is building different types of regional partnerships e.g. inter-district unions. The article discusses the essence and significance of inter-district cooperation in the dev...