In modern management, that is mainly focused on organisational innovations and effective managing of people, the importance of uncertainty, dynamics of changes, and risk in the right functioning of organisations are emphasised. These conditions relate to the private sector as well as public and non-governmental organisations. Together with the scarcity of resources they generate the need for using contemporary man-agement concepts. Essential importance is attached to the human factor operating in the network of relationships. Moreover, the holistic orientation alongside the ability to analyse the functioning of organisation specific areas, as well as using appropriate management methods become necessary. However it is difficult to analyse specific areas of an organisation without taking into account the dynamics of political, organisational, and social factors. Therefore, the faces of contemporary management relate to a vast range of methods directed at ensuring effectiveness in functioning of organisations.

In this book, attempts were made to reflect the current research trends in management sciences. For this purpose, the publications focused on three main research fields. The first of these refers to the Human Resource Management, the second to Corporate Social Responsibility, and the third takes into account contemporary management methods. Articles included in this study concern both the theory and practice of contemporary management.

The first chapter by Barbara Mazur refers to the Green Human Resource Management with emphasis on the Green Work Life Balance. The author presents in it the sustainability in Human Resources Management, sociological, psychological, strategic, and “green” approach to the analysed subject and interactions between life and work domains. She focuses on green work-life-balance policies. As a result, she finds that Sustainable HRM is conditioned by the relations between individual model approaches.

In the second article Algirdas Giedraitis and Rimantas Stašys explore working group's value orientations within a construction company. They show the value orientation, value of group working, the most important professional values, and the hierarchical structure of value formation. In the article, a model of forming value orientation within the working group is developed. The authors also conduct a quantitative analysis of factors of the developed model. In the conclusions they state that presently factors related to value orientations are a basis of work in a group.