88 Management 2014 Vol.18, No. 2 Employee engagement in continuous improvement of processes Ph.D. Renata Brajer-Marczak Wroclaw University of Economics Department of Business Processes Management RENATA BRAJER-MARCZAK Employee engagement in continuous improvement of processes 1. Introduction The recently growing importance of the focus on processes is based on the need to initiate improvement activities. It is stressed that changes in processes should occur continuously in response to constant changes occurring in the environment of an organisation, particularly in the requirements of its customers and even be ahead of them, as long as it is possible. The literature on the subject includes opinions suggesting that organisations seek opportunities to distinguish themselves with the ability of continuous improvement of processes, which in turn corresponds to extraction and support of employee commitment in continuous improvement of processes. The purpose of the study is presentation of the essence of the problems related to building employee commitment in continuous improvement of processes. Based on the subject literature the existing possibilities of extracting and sustaining it have been shown. Before that, elaborations had been made on the concept of continuous improvement of processes by setting it against the background of contemporary trends DOI: 10.2478/manment-2014-0044 ISSN 1429-9321