Improving the Management of a Mining Enterprise a Condition for Increasing the Efficiency of Hard Coal Production

The paper contains considerations regarding the possible impact of changing the approach to the management of mining enterprises on the improvement of their efficiency. The definitions of management, efficiency (along with its basic measures, such as productivity and profitabil-ity) and rationality of management were presented in the introduction. Next, the role of the three determinants of effective production in a mining enterprise were presented, including: reliable identification of resources, assessment of their necessity, rules for organizing ongoing works and implementation of production planning methods aimed at minimizing the costs of operations. The practical implementation of the defined determinants is presented on the ex-ample of four basic functions of process management, such as organizing, planning, leading and controlling. The special role of the process approach to cost management in the lifecycle of each longwall working while adopting a rational reduction of operating costs in mining enterprises is underlined.