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Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika)
The aim of the paper is to research the interrelationships between variables – the support of the... more The aim of the paper is to research the interrelationships between variables – the support of the direct manager (SDM), work engagement (WE), organisational trust (OT), and job autonomy (JA) in enterprises operating in agriculture. Both direct and indirect effects affecting the increase in work engagement of agrarian employees are analysed. For the data collection, a questionnaire survey among the employees of agrarian enterprises in Slovakia was used (680 respondents). For testing, we applied the theoretical research model and purposed hypotheses with the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method through the SmartPLS 3.0 software. The findings point out the existence of a statistically significant relationship between SDM and WE, which is, though, weaker than the overall effect by involving the mediation variables. Both mediation variables (OT and JA) separately increase the overall effect, but their common mediation influence mainly has a substantial sign...
Journal of Risk and Financial Management
The aim of our paper is to examine whether the support of innovative work behavior by management ... more The aim of our paper is to examine whether the support of innovative work behavior by management is positively related to business performance and at the same time, whether this relationship is mediated by the teamwork climate and cognitive diversity of teams. Cognitive diversity is defined as differences in knowledge and perspective, which arise from professional diversity and account for its positive effects. A teamwork climate represents staff perceptions of collaboration between personnel. Business performance is defined by the level of sales. Our sample consisted of 211 managers of companies operating in Slovakia, and data collection took place in the form of a questionnaire. The main tool for examining the mechanism of operation of the investigated relationships is mediation using regression analysis and the Sobel test to determine the significance of the indirect effect of mediation variables. The findings point to a significant direct relationship between the innovative work...
Ekonomický časopis
Digitalisation and new technologies transform current world into digital one and thus leading tow... more Digitalisation and new technologies transform current world into digital one and thus leading towards changes of customer behaviour, business models, innovations, methods of operation, as well as new generation of people, so called "Digital Natives". Management of human resources should create conditions for application of Industry 4.0 principles into practice in advance, based on analysis of digitalisation impact on their own business and its strategy, adapt processes of human resource planning. In order to acquire employees with digital qualification and thinking, it will be necessary to alter their recruitment, especially with orientation on social media and mobile variations of traditional recruitment channels. This scientific article points out a change in human capital competence impacted by the fourth Industrial revolution. This scientific article eventuates into proposal of requests for skills and knowledge of managers on different levels of management determined by fourth industrial revolution.
Journal of Business Economics and Management
Focusing on utilization of employees strengths at workforce brings companies benefit to the diver... more Focusing on utilization of employees strengths at workforce brings companies benefit to the diverse workforce and creates a competitive advantage in a turbulent and dynamic business environment. The intention of this research is to fill a significant research gap in the in-depth exploration of relationships and support mechanisms for diversity management. The research is focused on teamwork climate as a mediating variable, moderating the effect of best practices in the implementation of diversity management and on its potential level of influence on the employee turnover in the company. It was applied the correlation to evaluate connection r among criteria of three areas: best practices in diversity management, teamwork climate and employee turnover rates. The control variables were age, gender, education and length of manager practice. The dependency between best practices in diversity management and employee turnover, which is mediated by teamwork climate, has been confirmed. Howe...
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2022
The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between strategic decision speed and innovati... more The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between strategic decision speed and innovative performance of micro and small enterprises. Attention is focused not only on the direct effect of these two variables, but also its mediation by sharing information and at the same time moderating this effect on the one hand by the polychronicity of managers in strategic decision-making, goal congruence and trust in companies. The sample consisted of 244 respondents. Processing using PLS-SEM method in SmartPLS 3.0 software. The direct relationship between strategic decision speed and innovative performance of micro and small enterprises has not proved significant. Information sharing plays an important role in this relationship. The overall positive effect is also amplified by the effective goal congruence and organizational trust in the role of moderators. The importance of polychronicity on the intensity of the investigated relationship was not confirmed.
Management Trends in the Context of Industry 4.0, 2021
Tariff systems are traditionally the basis of the remuneration system, for their creation compani... more Tariff systems are traditionally the basis of the remuneration system, for their creation companies have a whole set of sophisticated procedures and tools at their disposal. However, their role and the expectations of companies from tariff systems are subject to transformation under the influence of environmental developments. The pa-per deals with the changes that are currently taking place in the tariff systems and, using the results of several researches carried out in companies in Slovakia, evaluates their development and the current situation. Tariff systems are precisely the tool through which employees to a large extent perceive fair remuneration. Properly de-signed in line with the company's culture, the tariff system helps to stabilize employees’ potential and supports the promotion of corporate strategy. Therefore, it is the focus of both companies and employees. 1
ABSTRAKT Článok zameraný na oblasť riadenia spoločenskej zodpovednosti podnikov. Obsahuje výsledk... more ABSTRAKT Článok zameraný na oblasť riadenia spoločenskej zodpovednosti podnikov. Obsahuje výsledky výskumu zameraného na jednu z foriem aplikovanej sociálnej zodpovednosti podnikov, a to dobrovoľníctva zamestnancov. Spomínaný výskum, vo svojej podobe, je prvým komplexným mapovaní dobrovoľníctva zamestnancov v na Slovensku. Realizovaný výskum, a publikované poznatky sú v súčasnosti zdrojom moderných poznatkov pre oblasť manažmentu, pretože dobrovoľníctvo sa stáva v súčasnosti výrazným trendom v súvislosti so spoločensky zodpovedným podnikaním v ekonomickom priestore vyspelých krajín. Vďaka jeho celospoločenskému významu je zdrojom prínosov nielen pre samotný podnik, no i komunitu v ktorej podnik pôsobí a tiež širšiu spoločnosť, a preto nachádza podporu v strategických dokumentoch budúceho rozvoja Európskej unie. Kľúčové slová: Spoločenská zodpovednosť; Dobrovoľníctvo zamestnancov; Podnikteľská etika. ABSTRACT The paper is oriented into the area of corporate social responsibility mana...
Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series D: Faculty of Economics and Administration, 2021
The emergence and spreading of COVID-19 pandemic were surprising and sudden It caused the need fo... more The emergence and spreading of COVID-19 pandemic were surprising and sudden It caused the need for competent crisis management throughout the public administration to manage the initial stage of the crisis The purpose of our research is to identify the connection between the competencies of crisis management in self-governments and employee performance, measured at the time of the initial stage of the crisis, by their feeling of satisfaction, safety and establishment of conditions for work In this research report, we expect these variables to be connected via the sharing of information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of work teams The research used the mediator model according to Baron and Kenny Sobel's test was used to test the mediator effect Regression analysis was used to verify the hypotheses The ANOVA variance analysis was used to analyze multiple dependency The level of significance was 5% The research sample consisted of 207 managers in self-government organizations operating in Slovakia The hypothesis on the dependency between the crisis management competencies and team performance during the initial stage of the crisis, facilitated by sharing of information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of crisis management, was confirmed © The Author(s) 2021
Sustainability, 2020
The study published in this article contains the results of examining the relationship between tr... more The study published in this article contains the results of examining the relationship between transformational leadership and natural performance in agribusiness. For the purposes of the study, natural performance refers to performance that considers the natural results of agrarian plant and animal production. This research focuses on the influence of transformational leadership on business performance through job autonomy and job satisfaction. The study was conducted on a research sample of 757 respondents from 49 businesses. The study verifies a positive association between transformational leadership and business performance, which is mediated by job autonomy and job satisfaction. The research results have proven that transformational leadership has a positive effect on agribusiness performance mediated through job autonomy and job satisfaction. The study contains important knowledge on agribusiness sustainability, as it provides verifiable findings on the relationship between m...
BioResources, 2020
Corporate culture represents a personality of a company. Suitable corporate culture should be a s... more Corporate culture represents a personality of a company. Suitable corporate culture should be a summary of behavior and action of the company as a whole and its individual employees on their way to achieving the strategic goals of the company. Using the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument methodology, the corporate culture on a sample of 1,114 respondents in wood-processing and forest enterprises in Slovakia is defined and compared. The hypothesis that there were statistically significant differences between wood-processing and forest enterprises in individual components of corporate culture is confirmed in the paper. The differences in the perception of corporate culture in the area of organizational leadership and criteria of success can be considered the research output. In the area of organizational leadership, there are significant differences in the respondents’ opinions. In the area of criteria of success, employees of the wood-processing enterprises preferred the su...
The paper is oriented into the area of corporate social responsibility management. It contains re... more The paper is oriented into the area of corporate social responsibility management. It contains research results realized in the area of employees’ volunteering, as one of the forms of applied corporate social responsibility. The research, within its characteristic, has been the first complex monitoring of employees volunteering practice in Slovakia. Realized research and published findings shall become sources of contemporary knowledge for the area of business management, since employees’ volunteering has nowadays become one of tendencies in corporate social responsibility practice in business environment of developed countries. The employee’s volunteering practice has proven to be beneficial not only for the company prosperity, but also for community and wider society, which makes it a reason to be involved into strategic documentation for future development of the European Union.
The aim of this monograph is to provide a comprehensive overview on the International HRM in Cent... more The aim of this monograph is to provide a comprehensive overview on the International HRM in Central and Eastern Europe supported by qualitative research results. It is the first available publication on contemporary tendencies in IHRM in Central and Eastern Europe, published and based on the CRANET (the Cranfield Network on International HRM) cooperation. Therefore, there are contributions of experienced and relevant authors active in research and publishing in Central and Eastern Europe. This book consists of three sections. The first focuses on the major impact of internationalisation of HRM in Central and Eastern Europe, identifying impacts of foreign investments, explaining emerging HRM models in the international business environment, introducing evolution of international HRM, including relevant factors of labor market changes and cultural diversity influences. The second section introduces a reflection of business aspects and internationalization in partial HRM functions. The third section contains qualitative research results performed in international companies and delivers an empirical background in the form of case studies. This predetermines the monograph’s valuable material for researchers in the field of HRM-related disciplines, as well as for teachers and students of graduate programs in business, economics and management.https://encompass.eku.edu/fs_books/1022/thumbnail.jp
Ekonomika poljoprivrede, 2021
Motivation is one of the most important management tools to ensure employees' job satisfactio... more Motivation is one of the most important management tools to ensure employees' job satisfaction and stabilisation. Effective motivation programmes can only be developed through an in-depth understanding of employee motivation profiles. The aim of this paper is to analyse the motivation factors of employees in terms of their job satisfaction and stabilisation in the agribusiness industry. The methodological framework of the survey is Herzberg's two-factor motivation theory. Independent variables were tested using test statistic methods with the most significant deviations. An independent t-test was used for each motivation factor. The biggest negative deviations were found in the factors of income, responsibility and working conditions, employee benefits, content of work, its recognition and the possibility of advancement. A statistically significant difference was found at the age and education of respondents. Younger employees and university-educated employees showed a marke...
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021
Given the wide professional discussion on the dominating professional focus of healthcare manager... more Given the wide professional discussion on the dominating professional focus of healthcare managers at the expense of management knowledge, the main goal of this paper is to verify the extent, to which management education of healthcare workers affects the level of their management skills. METHODOLOGY The Descriptive statistics methods have been used to answer research questions regarding the differences in the perception of the managerial skills and their disposition importance between managers with a completed management education and without it. Emphasis was placed on people management skills and communication skills. The research sample consisted of 253 healthcare managers. RESULTS Managers with a completed specialized management study are characterized by higher values of entrepreneurial competences and communication skills. They also have exceptional skills in the area of initiator of change. Another significant difference is the higher adaptation of roles and low critique of their subordinates. They are oriented at workers and relationships with them. CONCLUSION Our results show that management education of healthcare managers significantly contributes to the implementation of newer approaches to people management and the use of the necessary management skills, which are a source of higher efficiency in the context of the present world of work and its challenges.
Healthcare, 2021
The level of leadership skills of healthcare team leaders has long been the subject of interest a... more The level of leadership skills of healthcare team leaders has long been the subject of interest and many discussions. Several studies have pointed to their inadequacy, which is becoming a serious problem during the global crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There is a direct link between the leadership in the healthcare system and its performance, conditioned by the level of decisions of leaders of medical teams. It is they who determine the performance of healthcare delivery. The study published in this article contains the results from the examination of the dependence between crisis leadership and team performance in healthcare providers. The subject of the research is the impact of cognitive diversity and the quality of crisis-leadership decision-making on the performance of medical teams in the acute crisis phase. The study was conducted on a research sample of 216 healthcare providers after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia (April 2020). The respondents to the...
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2021
The fast and shocking onset of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus created the need for a com... more The fast and shocking onset of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus created the need for a complete crisis management of healthcare facilities to manage the current stage of the crisis. The purpose of our research is to examine the relations between the competences of crisis management in healthcare facilities and the performance of employees, measured during the acute stage of the crisis by their feeling of satisfaction, safety and creation of conditions for work, whereby we assume that these variables are mutually interlinked by the sharing of information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of the work teams. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire survey was created and used based on a sample of 216 mid-level managers of health care facilities in Slovakia, which took place during the first month after the outbreak of the crisis (during the month of March/April 2020). The Baron and Kenny mediator model has been used for research purposes and the Freedman-Schatzkin test has been used to test the mediator effect. Regression analysis has been used to verify the hypotheses. The control variables were the size of the healthcare facility based on the number of employees, gender and age of the manager, his position in the management hierarchy and the duration of practice in a management position. The ANOVA analysis of variance was used to analyze multiple dependencies. The level of significance was 5%. The research sample consisted of 216 managers at different types of healthcare facilities. Results: The hypothesis for the dependency between the crisis competences of management and performance of teams during the acute stage of the crisis, facilitated by sharing information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of crisis management was confirmed. It is a multilateral incomplete mediation, where almost two thirds of the total effect are facilitated by mediators, of which the sharing of information has the greatest effect (35%). Conclusion: Based on our mediation model, healthcare facilities, which strive to implement crisis management during the acute stage of the crisis, should place emphasis especially on reliable background information and the fast sharing of information, supporting the performance of healthcare teams. The strategies for achieving these goals should also include education focused on the development of managerial competences.
Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika), 2021
The goal of this paper is to test the hypothesis of positive correlation between the innovative w... more The goal of this paper is to test the hypothesis of positive correlation between the innovative work behavior (IWB) support on the part of agricultural managers and the production performance of agricultural companies, mediated through information sharing in the companies. The research was performed on a sample of 175 companies of primary agricultural production in Slovakia. All data was analysed using the SPSS version 22.0 software package. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to assess the internal consistency of scales reliability. The Baron and Kenny mediator model was also used. The hypothesis was confirmed by the research. Complete mediation was identified where up to 91.6% of the overall effect is mediated through the sharing of the information variable. The practical implications of the research point out that the transparency of communication and support of innovations introduce positive effects in relation to the performance of agricultural companies. The IWB supp...
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2021
The goal of our research was to determine how crisis management competence affects employee perfo... more The goal of our research was to determine how crisis management competence affects employee performance of teams and the conditions in the acute stage of the crisis during the pandemic. We have used the mediator model to identify the relations. The study was carried out on a research sample of 122 companies after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia (March-April 2020). The respondents in the research sample were managers at different company levels. The study tests the positive association between leadership * This research was supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences VEGA Project No. 1/0017/20 Changes in the Application of Managerial Functions in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Adaptation Processes of Businesses in Slovakia and the project No.
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2021
The aim of the study is to examine whether the use of innovative approaches in management of heal... more The aim of the study is to examine whether the use of innovative approaches in management of health care facilities is related to a higher overall rating of these facilities and whether this connection is supported by information sharing and the climate in the organization, expressed by soft management tools. The Baron and Kenny's mediator model was used for testing the correlations and the Sobel test for determining the mediator effect. A series of regression analysis were used to identify the proposed hypotheses. Incomplete mediation was found with a 57% share of the total effect in the form of a direct effect and a 47% share of the total effect in the form of an indirect effect. Both effects have been shown to be significant. The overall rating of a device can be influenced by innovative management approaches and amplify its effect through information sharing. The climate in the organization did not prove significant in our study. From the innovative approaches, most contribution to the overall rating of hospitals provided its innovations in strategic management and planning, where the coefficient of increase in evaluation was the highest in the unit change of both items. Innovative approaches in management, information sharing and also climate support in organizations are more significantly implemented in hospitals-joint stock companies, belonging to the network of hospitals, which strives within this network for efficient and effective implementation of management tools.
Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika)
The aim of the paper is to research the interrelationships between variables – the support of the... more The aim of the paper is to research the interrelationships between variables – the support of the direct manager (SDM), work engagement (WE), organisational trust (OT), and job autonomy (JA) in enterprises operating in agriculture. Both direct and indirect effects affecting the increase in work engagement of agrarian employees are analysed. For the data collection, a questionnaire survey among the employees of agrarian enterprises in Slovakia was used (680 respondents). For testing, we applied the theoretical research model and purposed hypotheses with the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) method through the SmartPLS 3.0 software. The findings point out the existence of a statistically significant relationship between SDM and WE, which is, though, weaker than the overall effect by involving the mediation variables. Both mediation variables (OT and JA) separately increase the overall effect, but their common mediation influence mainly has a substantial sign...
Journal of Risk and Financial Management
The aim of our paper is to examine whether the support of innovative work behavior by management ... more The aim of our paper is to examine whether the support of innovative work behavior by management is positively related to business performance and at the same time, whether this relationship is mediated by the teamwork climate and cognitive diversity of teams. Cognitive diversity is defined as differences in knowledge and perspective, which arise from professional diversity and account for its positive effects. A teamwork climate represents staff perceptions of collaboration between personnel. Business performance is defined by the level of sales. Our sample consisted of 211 managers of companies operating in Slovakia, and data collection took place in the form of a questionnaire. The main tool for examining the mechanism of operation of the investigated relationships is mediation using regression analysis and the Sobel test to determine the significance of the indirect effect of mediation variables. The findings point to a significant direct relationship between the innovative work...
Ekonomický časopis
Digitalisation and new technologies transform current world into digital one and thus leading tow... more Digitalisation and new technologies transform current world into digital one and thus leading towards changes of customer behaviour, business models, innovations, methods of operation, as well as new generation of people, so called "Digital Natives". Management of human resources should create conditions for application of Industry 4.0 principles into practice in advance, based on analysis of digitalisation impact on their own business and its strategy, adapt processes of human resource planning. In order to acquire employees with digital qualification and thinking, it will be necessary to alter their recruitment, especially with orientation on social media and mobile variations of traditional recruitment channels. This scientific article points out a change in human capital competence impacted by the fourth Industrial revolution. This scientific article eventuates into proposal of requests for skills and knowledge of managers on different levels of management determined by fourth industrial revolution.
Journal of Business Economics and Management
Focusing on utilization of employees strengths at workforce brings companies benefit to the diver... more Focusing on utilization of employees strengths at workforce brings companies benefit to the diverse workforce and creates a competitive advantage in a turbulent and dynamic business environment. The intention of this research is to fill a significant research gap in the in-depth exploration of relationships and support mechanisms for diversity management. The research is focused on teamwork climate as a mediating variable, moderating the effect of best practices in the implementation of diversity management and on its potential level of influence on the employee turnover in the company. It was applied the correlation to evaluate connection r among criteria of three areas: best practices in diversity management, teamwork climate and employee turnover rates. The control variables were age, gender, education and length of manager practice. The dependency between best practices in diversity management and employee turnover, which is mediated by teamwork climate, has been confirmed. Howe...
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2022
The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between strategic decision speed and innovati... more The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between strategic decision speed and innovative performance of micro and small enterprises. Attention is focused not only on the direct effect of these two variables, but also its mediation by sharing information and at the same time moderating this effect on the one hand by the polychronicity of managers in strategic decision-making, goal congruence and trust in companies. The sample consisted of 244 respondents. Processing using PLS-SEM method in SmartPLS 3.0 software. The direct relationship between strategic decision speed and innovative performance of micro and small enterprises has not proved significant. Information sharing plays an important role in this relationship. The overall positive effect is also amplified by the effective goal congruence and organizational trust in the role of moderators. The importance of polychronicity on the intensity of the investigated relationship was not confirmed.
Management Trends in the Context of Industry 4.0, 2021
Tariff systems are traditionally the basis of the remuneration system, for their creation compani... more Tariff systems are traditionally the basis of the remuneration system, for their creation companies have a whole set of sophisticated procedures and tools at their disposal. However, their role and the expectations of companies from tariff systems are subject to transformation under the influence of environmental developments. The pa-per deals with the changes that are currently taking place in the tariff systems and, using the results of several researches carried out in companies in Slovakia, evaluates their development and the current situation. Tariff systems are precisely the tool through which employees to a large extent perceive fair remuneration. Properly de-signed in line with the company's culture, the tariff system helps to stabilize employees’ potential and supports the promotion of corporate strategy. Therefore, it is the focus of both companies and employees. 1
ABSTRAKT Článok zameraný na oblasť riadenia spoločenskej zodpovednosti podnikov. Obsahuje výsledk... more ABSTRAKT Článok zameraný na oblasť riadenia spoločenskej zodpovednosti podnikov. Obsahuje výsledky výskumu zameraného na jednu z foriem aplikovanej sociálnej zodpovednosti podnikov, a to dobrovoľníctva zamestnancov. Spomínaný výskum, vo svojej podobe, je prvým komplexným mapovaní dobrovoľníctva zamestnancov v na Slovensku. Realizovaný výskum, a publikované poznatky sú v súčasnosti zdrojom moderných poznatkov pre oblasť manažmentu, pretože dobrovoľníctvo sa stáva v súčasnosti výrazným trendom v súvislosti so spoločensky zodpovedným podnikaním v ekonomickom priestore vyspelých krajín. Vďaka jeho celospoločenskému významu je zdrojom prínosov nielen pre samotný podnik, no i komunitu v ktorej podnik pôsobí a tiež širšiu spoločnosť, a preto nachádza podporu v strategických dokumentoch budúceho rozvoja Európskej unie. Kľúčové slová: Spoločenská zodpovednosť; Dobrovoľníctvo zamestnancov; Podnikteľská etika. ABSTRACT The paper is oriented into the area of corporate social responsibility mana...
Scientific Papers of the University of Pardubice, Series D: Faculty of Economics and Administration, 2021
The emergence and spreading of COVID-19 pandemic were surprising and sudden It caused the need fo... more The emergence and spreading of COVID-19 pandemic were surprising and sudden It caused the need for competent crisis management throughout the public administration to manage the initial stage of the crisis The purpose of our research is to identify the connection between the competencies of crisis management in self-governments and employee performance, measured at the time of the initial stage of the crisis, by their feeling of satisfaction, safety and establishment of conditions for work In this research report, we expect these variables to be connected via the sharing of information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of work teams The research used the mediator model according to Baron and Kenny Sobel's test was used to test the mediator effect Regression analysis was used to verify the hypotheses The ANOVA variance analysis was used to analyze multiple dependency The level of significance was 5% The research sample consisted of 207 managers in self-government organizations operating in Slovakia The hypothesis on the dependency between the crisis management competencies and team performance during the initial stage of the crisis, facilitated by sharing of information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of crisis management, was confirmed © The Author(s) 2021
Sustainability, 2020
The study published in this article contains the results of examining the relationship between tr... more The study published in this article contains the results of examining the relationship between transformational leadership and natural performance in agribusiness. For the purposes of the study, natural performance refers to performance that considers the natural results of agrarian plant and animal production. This research focuses on the influence of transformational leadership on business performance through job autonomy and job satisfaction. The study was conducted on a research sample of 757 respondents from 49 businesses. The study verifies a positive association between transformational leadership and business performance, which is mediated by job autonomy and job satisfaction. The research results have proven that transformational leadership has a positive effect on agribusiness performance mediated through job autonomy and job satisfaction. The study contains important knowledge on agribusiness sustainability, as it provides verifiable findings on the relationship between m...
BioResources, 2020
Corporate culture represents a personality of a company. Suitable corporate culture should be a s... more Corporate culture represents a personality of a company. Suitable corporate culture should be a summary of behavior and action of the company as a whole and its individual employees on their way to achieving the strategic goals of the company. Using the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument methodology, the corporate culture on a sample of 1,114 respondents in wood-processing and forest enterprises in Slovakia is defined and compared. The hypothesis that there were statistically significant differences between wood-processing and forest enterprises in individual components of corporate culture is confirmed in the paper. The differences in the perception of corporate culture in the area of organizational leadership and criteria of success can be considered the research output. In the area of organizational leadership, there are significant differences in the respondents’ opinions. In the area of criteria of success, employees of the wood-processing enterprises preferred the su...
The paper is oriented into the area of corporate social responsibility management. It contains re... more The paper is oriented into the area of corporate social responsibility management. It contains research results realized in the area of employees’ volunteering, as one of the forms of applied corporate social responsibility. The research, within its characteristic, has been the first complex monitoring of employees volunteering practice in Slovakia. Realized research and published findings shall become sources of contemporary knowledge for the area of business management, since employees’ volunteering has nowadays become one of tendencies in corporate social responsibility practice in business environment of developed countries. The employee’s volunteering practice has proven to be beneficial not only for the company prosperity, but also for community and wider society, which makes it a reason to be involved into strategic documentation for future development of the European Union.
The aim of this monograph is to provide a comprehensive overview on the International HRM in Cent... more The aim of this monograph is to provide a comprehensive overview on the International HRM in Central and Eastern Europe supported by qualitative research results. It is the first available publication on contemporary tendencies in IHRM in Central and Eastern Europe, published and based on the CRANET (the Cranfield Network on International HRM) cooperation. Therefore, there are contributions of experienced and relevant authors active in research and publishing in Central and Eastern Europe. This book consists of three sections. The first focuses on the major impact of internationalisation of HRM in Central and Eastern Europe, identifying impacts of foreign investments, explaining emerging HRM models in the international business environment, introducing evolution of international HRM, including relevant factors of labor market changes and cultural diversity influences. The second section introduces a reflection of business aspects and internationalization in partial HRM functions. The third section contains qualitative research results performed in international companies and delivers an empirical background in the form of case studies. This predetermines the monograph’s valuable material for researchers in the field of HRM-related disciplines, as well as for teachers and students of graduate programs in business, economics and management.https://encompass.eku.edu/fs_books/1022/thumbnail.jp
Ekonomika poljoprivrede, 2021
Motivation is one of the most important management tools to ensure employees' job satisfactio... more Motivation is one of the most important management tools to ensure employees' job satisfaction and stabilisation. Effective motivation programmes can only be developed through an in-depth understanding of employee motivation profiles. The aim of this paper is to analyse the motivation factors of employees in terms of their job satisfaction and stabilisation in the agribusiness industry. The methodological framework of the survey is Herzberg's two-factor motivation theory. Independent variables were tested using test statistic methods with the most significant deviations. An independent t-test was used for each motivation factor. The biggest negative deviations were found in the factors of income, responsibility and working conditions, employee benefits, content of work, its recognition and the possibility of advancement. A statistically significant difference was found at the age and education of respondents. Younger employees and university-educated employees showed a marke...
The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2021
Given the wide professional discussion on the dominating professional focus of healthcare manager... more Given the wide professional discussion on the dominating professional focus of healthcare managers at the expense of management knowledge, the main goal of this paper is to verify the extent, to which management education of healthcare workers affects the level of their management skills. METHODOLOGY The Descriptive statistics methods have been used to answer research questions regarding the differences in the perception of the managerial skills and their disposition importance between managers with a completed management education and without it. Emphasis was placed on people management skills and communication skills. The research sample consisted of 253 healthcare managers. RESULTS Managers with a completed specialized management study are characterized by higher values of entrepreneurial competences and communication skills. They also have exceptional skills in the area of initiator of change. Another significant difference is the higher adaptation of roles and low critique of their subordinates. They are oriented at workers and relationships with them. CONCLUSION Our results show that management education of healthcare managers significantly contributes to the implementation of newer approaches to people management and the use of the necessary management skills, which are a source of higher efficiency in the context of the present world of work and its challenges.
Healthcare, 2021
The level of leadership skills of healthcare team leaders has long been the subject of interest a... more The level of leadership skills of healthcare team leaders has long been the subject of interest and many discussions. Several studies have pointed to their inadequacy, which is becoming a serious problem during the global crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic. There is a direct link between the leadership in the healthcare system and its performance, conditioned by the level of decisions of leaders of medical teams. It is they who determine the performance of healthcare delivery. The study published in this article contains the results from the examination of the dependence between crisis leadership and team performance in healthcare providers. The subject of the research is the impact of cognitive diversity and the quality of crisis-leadership decision-making on the performance of medical teams in the acute crisis phase. The study was conducted on a research sample of 216 healthcare providers after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia (April 2020). The respondents to the...
Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2021
The fast and shocking onset of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus created the need for a com... more The fast and shocking onset of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus created the need for a complete crisis management of healthcare facilities to manage the current stage of the crisis. The purpose of our research is to examine the relations between the competences of crisis management in healthcare facilities and the performance of employees, measured during the acute stage of the crisis by their feeling of satisfaction, safety and creation of conditions for work, whereby we assume that these variables are mutually interlinked by the sharing of information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of the work teams. Materials and Methods: A questionnaire survey was created and used based on a sample of 216 mid-level managers of health care facilities in Slovakia, which took place during the first month after the outbreak of the crisis (during the month of March/April 2020). The Baron and Kenny mediator model has been used for research purposes and the Freedman-Schatzkin test has been used to test the mediator effect. Regression analysis has been used to verify the hypotheses. The control variables were the size of the healthcare facility based on the number of employees, gender and age of the manager, his position in the management hierarchy and the duration of practice in a management position. The ANOVA analysis of variance was used to analyze multiple dependencies. The level of significance was 5%. The research sample consisted of 216 managers at different types of healthcare facilities. Results: The hypothesis for the dependency between the crisis competences of management and performance of teams during the acute stage of the crisis, facilitated by sharing information, teamwork and cognitive diversity of crisis management was confirmed. It is a multilateral incomplete mediation, where almost two thirds of the total effect are facilitated by mediators, of which the sharing of information has the greatest effect (35%). Conclusion: Based on our mediation model, healthcare facilities, which strive to implement crisis management during the acute stage of the crisis, should place emphasis especially on reliable background information and the fast sharing of information, supporting the performance of healthcare teams. The strategies for achieving these goals should also include education focused on the development of managerial competences.
Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika), 2021
The goal of this paper is to test the hypothesis of positive correlation between the innovative w... more The goal of this paper is to test the hypothesis of positive correlation between the innovative work behavior (IWB) support on the part of agricultural managers and the production performance of agricultural companies, mediated through information sharing in the companies. The research was performed on a sample of 175 companies of primary agricultural production in Slovakia. All data was analysed using the SPSS version 22.0 software package. The Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used to assess the internal consistency of scales reliability. The Baron and Kenny mediator model was also used. The hypothesis was confirmed by the research. Complete mediation was identified where up to 91.6% of the overall effect is mediated through the sharing of the information variable. The practical implications of the research point out that the transparency of communication and support of innovations introduce positive effects in relation to the performance of agricultural companies. The IWB supp...
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2021
The goal of our research was to determine how crisis management competence affects employee perfo... more The goal of our research was to determine how crisis management competence affects employee performance of teams and the conditions in the acute stage of the crisis during the pandemic. We have used the mediator model to identify the relations. The study was carried out on a research sample of 122 companies after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Slovakia (March-April 2020). The respondents in the research sample were managers at different company levels. The study tests the positive association between leadership * This research was supported by the Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education of Slovak Republic and the Slovak Academy of Sciences VEGA Project No. 1/0017/20 Changes in the Application of Managerial Functions in the Context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Adaptation Processes of Businesses in Slovakia and the project No.
Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2021
The aim of the study is to examine whether the use of innovative approaches in management of heal... more The aim of the study is to examine whether the use of innovative approaches in management of health care facilities is related to a higher overall rating of these facilities and whether this connection is supported by information sharing and the climate in the organization, expressed by soft management tools. The Baron and Kenny's mediator model was used for testing the correlations and the Sobel test for determining the mediator effect. A series of regression analysis were used to identify the proposed hypotheses. Incomplete mediation was found with a 57% share of the total effect in the form of a direct effect and a 47% share of the total effect in the form of an indirect effect. Both effects have been shown to be significant. The overall rating of a device can be influenced by innovative management approaches and amplify its effect through information sharing. The climate in the organization did not prove significant in our study. From the innovative approaches, most contribution to the overall rating of hospitals provided its innovations in strategic management and planning, where the coefficient of increase in evaluation was the highest in the unit change of both items. Innovative approaches in management, information sharing and also climate support in organizations are more significantly implemented in hospitals-joint stock companies, belonging to the network of hospitals, which strives within this network for efficient and effective implementation of management tools.