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Evaluation of Key Positions and Employees Management Level in Manufacturing Industry—The Czech Case

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  • Petra Horváthová

    (Department of Management, Faculty of Economics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, 702 00 Ostrava 1, Czech Republic)

  • Šárka Velčovská

    (Department of Marketing and Business, Faculty of Economics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, 702 00 Ostrava 1, Czech Republic)

  • Lenka Kauerová

    (Department of Marketing and Business, Faculty of Economics, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, 702 00 Ostrava 1, Czech Republic)

  • Friðrik Rafn Larsen

    (School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Business Administration, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2, 102 Reykjavík, Iceland)

Abstract

Human resources management, especially the key employees management, has fundamental influence on companies’ sustainable business, which has to be considered as the priority of any business functioning. The aim of this paper is to evaluate current level of the key positions and employees management in the Czech business environment and to propose a process of its effective implementation and application in practice. Online questionnaire survey was provided using 105 companies operating in manufacturing industry of the Moravian-Silesian region as the sample. Statistical methods of data analysis were used. Fisher exact test, coefficients Phi and Cramer’s V were counted to test relations between variables. The survey results include an evaluation of the present situation as it comes to the use of the key positions and employees management system as well as an identification of interests in new system implementation. There was a low rate of use of given system in these business, with two thirds of companies showing an interest in implementing the new system. The process of implementation and the use of the key positions and employees in practice was proposed. The process is suggested in the way to make its content and form be a certain guide and help for companies to realize particular activities of this process. It would contribute to the successful realization of complex and systematic approach towards the work with the key positions and employees.

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  • Petra Horváthová & Šárka Velčovská & Lenka Kauerová & Friðrik Rafn Larsen, 2019. "Evaluation of Key Positions and Employees Management Level in Manufacturing Industry—The Czech Case," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-14, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:12:y:2019:i:1:p:242-:d:302607
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