Acta Univ. Agric. Silvic. Mendelianae Brun. 2013, 61(7), 2787-2799 | DOI: 10.11118/actaun201361072787

Organisational arrangement of human resources management in organisations operating in Slovakia and Czech Republic

Zdenko Stacho1, Hana Urbancová2, Katarína Stachová1
1 School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava, Department of Management, Furdekova 16, 851 04 Bratislava, Slovak Republic
2 Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Praha 6-Suchdol, Czech Republic

A necessary condition of effective functioning of human resources management in an organisation is the creation of adequate organisational conditions including the existence of a human resources management department, its size, composition and responsibility, which are formed following particular conditions of the given organisation. Competitive environment of organisations operating in Slovakia and Czech Republic is growing with the process of world economy globalisation, and it brings the need of flexibility in management, and therefore we have to get used to changes also in the sphere of human resources management, and learn to cope with new impulses and situations. At present, that predominantly includes spreading effects of global financial and economic crisis, influencing all spheres of life in Slovakia and in Czech Republic too. Handling this situation presupposes flexibility in assessment of changes in environment where organisations operate, ability to detect all positive as well as negative impacts and situations, and formulation of measures to enhance their own position sensibly and cautiously. Due to the need of focusing of organisations on comprehensive arrangement of human resources management, in questionnaire researches, we focused on finding out whether and to what extent organisations operating in Slovakia (n = 340) and in Czech Republic (n = 109) focus on human resources management arrangement. The objective of the article is to compare results in the sphere of human resources in organisations operating in Slovak and Czech Republics. The results show that 67% organisations in Slovakia and only 43% in the Czech Republic had a human resources management department which realised followed human resources management functions and personnel strategy.

Keywords: human resources management, outsourcing of personnel activities, organisational strategy, functional strategies, human resources management departments, organisations operating in Slovakia
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The article is related to Grant Agencies of VSEMvs project, project No. 3/2013, The Key Functions of Personnel Management in the Context of Development of Organisations Operating in the Slovak Republic and Czech Republic.

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Stacho, Z., Urbancová, H., & Stachová, K. (2013). Organisational arrangement of human resources management in organisations operating in Slovakia and Czech Republic. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 61(7), 2787-2799. doi: 10.11118/actaun201361072787
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