Comparison of the Level of Personnel Work in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Lukáš Smerek,Milota Vetráková,Vojtěch Malátek,Šárka Čemerková

doi:10.3390/su13010287

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After 1989, the countries of Eastern and Central Europe began to undergo significant social and economic changes associated with the process of transformation of the economy into a market economy. Transformation is not only associated with the creation of a business environment, with the formation of new legal and institutional mechanisms, but also with a change in the thinking and behavior of people including employees, managers and owners. The paper aims to identify important processes and trends in developing human resource management in companies in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. We conducted the questionnaire survey in 2018 and 2019 in various areas of business. We obtained the opinions of respondents from 1542 companies. In the research, we assume that in the conditions of a market economy compared to a centrally managed economy, employees are the most important source of development and performance of companies. Descriptive statistics were used to characterize the sampling unit. The other methods used to evaluate data in the paper were the Mann-Whitney test and Spearman Correlation coefficient. The research revealed that despite a long common history, differences in the field of personnel work have arisen in the last 20 years of the independent existence of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic. The only exception is employee care. It was also found that in the Czech Republic the strategic orientation predominates, on the contrary, companies in the Slovak Republic focused on operational processes. Differences were also found in the way of adaptation and further training of employees. The results of the findings can be used to design processes with the highest positive impact on business performance.

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Slovak Republic (Slovakia) and the Czech Republic are connected by a common 74year history, which began with the declaration of Czechoslovakia in 1918
If we examine the genesis of the development of views on the position of people in the work process, we must state that the philosophy of human resource management has changed as theory and practice have been formed in economics and management
According to the job classification in the surveyed companies in Slovakia, personnel work is in the responsibility of managers and clerks of human resources departments

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Slovak Republic (Slovakia) and the Czech Republic are connected by a common 74year history, which began with the declaration of Czechoslovakia in 1918. From the point of view of political and economic development, a new state called Czechoslovakia was established. Compared to the more industrially developed Czech Republic, Slovakia found itself in a strong competitive environment. The reason was the disproportions between the individual areas of the economy caused by the internal structure of industry, agriculture and infrastructure in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. The implemented reforms led to economic recovery and Czechoslovakia gradually joined the developed countries of the world. Subsequent developments, but which led to a decline in restructuring and development of industry due to the great economic crisis in the years

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