Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2017, 63(10):461-470 | DOI: 10.17221/189/2016-AGRICECON

Readiness of human resource departments of agricultural enterprises for implementation of the new roles of human resource professionalsOriginal Paper

Nadezda JANKELOVA, Zuzana JONIAKOVA, Jana BLSTAKOVA*, Ildiko NEMETHOVA
University of Economics in Bratislava, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

This paper is part of a broader study which aims to investigate the success factors of agricultural enterprises. It attempts to present the partial results of a questionnaire survey whose goal was to determine the quality of HRM (Human Resource Management) departments in basic agricultural enterprises. Studies focusing on the HRM of basic agricultural enterprises have been published in many countries. In the Slovak Republic, experts and academics from the Slovak University of Technology in Nitra, and the Slovak Research Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics have arrived at perceptive conclusions on the current state of human capital in the agri-food sector and have proposed innovative directions for further development. Surprisingly, however, academia still fails to perceive HR management as a partner in an enterprise, rather than simply a service unit in the organisational structure of the agricultural enterprise. Therefore, an in-depth analysis of the role of HRM departments is missing and this paper aims to fill that gap. The methodology of research is based on Ulrich's model of the mixed roles of HR departments (2009), which is used as a framework to determine the quality levels of role performance, defined by the model, of HRM departments. The survey sample consists of 70 basic agricultural enterprises.

Keywords: HR management, basic agricultural enterprises, roles of HR departments.

Published: October 31, 2017  Show citation

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JANKELOVA N, JONIAKOVA Z, BLSTAKOVA J, NEMETHOVA I. Readiness of human resource departments of agricultural enterprises for implementation of the new roles of human resource professionals. Agric. Econ. - Czech. 2017;63(10):461-470. doi: 10.17221/189/2016-AGRICECON.
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