Human Resource Development in a Small Company

• Authors: Mojca Bernik , Dušanka Kermc
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The small business sector is often overlooked in human resource development researches, despite representing a large portion of the total economy. Very few studies exist on the subject of human resources development needs analysis in small organisations. Development plans remain mostly unwritten, which can lead to the impression that development is not being implemented or planned and is therefore not valid. This paper presents case study of the existing human resource development system in a small company PAN -JAN d.o.o. The research included 80% of all employees, which is 20 out of 25. The research examined the correlation between the additional education and better business performance, analysis of variance on age and number of courses and discriminant analysis on age, years of service, levels of education and legally required education and training programmes. In discussion are proposed changes or improvements, as well as a human resource development model.

Keywords

EN

human resource development; planning; training activities; business performance; small company

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 165-170

Dates

published

2013-07-01

online

2013-08-15

Contributors

author

Mojca Bernik

• University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kidričeva cesta 55a, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia

author

Dušanka Kermc

• Zabrdje 40, 8233 Mirna

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/orga-2013-0013