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Job Design In The Function Of Improving The Job Performance Of The Employees In Bosnia And Herzegovinian Companies

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  • Alma Kovacevic

    (Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Tuzla Canton engaged in the tasks of investigation within the Criminal Police, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

  • Adisa Delic

    (Faculty of Economics, Univeristy of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Abstract

Due to continuous and radical changes in the contemporary business environment, companies now need to search for new modalities for a strategic positioning in the global market. New ways are sought to build and preserve competitive advantages, thus recognising that knowledge and learning are the key factors of success in the new economy. As a consequence, there is a need to give an ever-growing importance to human resource management in modern companies. Employees and their knowledge are the cornerstone of building competitive advantages only if their performance is at a desired level, which indicates that job performance management is one of the important managerial tasks. Employee performance is influenced by a multitude of factors, most of which are related to job design. Therefore, this paper aims to analyse the dimensions of organisational structure as an important determinant of job design in the companies in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The research covered 120 BiH companies, taking into account territorial and business dispersion. The main results of the research are reflected in the understanding of the relationship between the number of employees and the size of company, as well as in the fact that the increase in the number of employees in the company results in the decrease of the number of employees with a university degree compared to employees with high school degree. It should be emphasised in particular that the results of this paper show that within the analysed companies in BiH, the most frequent is the functional organisational structure and that BiH companies are dominated by a bureaucratic/mechanical job design approach that has a negative effect on the achievement of employees'work performance.

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  • Alma Kovacevic & Adisa Delic, 2019. "Job Design In The Function Of Improving The Job Performance Of The Employees In Bosnia And Herzegovinian Companies," Economic Review: Journal of Economics and Business, University of Tuzla, Faculty of Economics, vol. 17(1), pages 17-32, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tuz:journl:v:17:y:2019:i:1:p:17-32
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    1. Tomislav Hernaus, 2008. "Process-based Organization Design Model: Theoretical Review and Model Conceptualization," EFZG Working Papers Series 0806, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb.
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    Keywords

    human resources; job design; job performance; dimension of organisational structure;
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    JEL classification:

    • M10 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - General
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • G22 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Insurance; Insurance Companies; Actuarial Studies

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