Zdenko Stacho

Institute of Civil Society, 

University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, 

Slovakia

zdenko.stacho@ucm.sk

Changes in approach to employee development in organizations on a regional scale

Katarína Stachová

Institute of Civil Society, 

University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, 

Slovakia

katarina.stachova@ucm.sk

Agota Giedrė Raišienė

Institute of Leadership and Strategic Management,

Mykolas Romeris University,

Lithuania

agotar@mruni.eu

Abstract. Human capital is frequently viewed as the only resource that can be constantly developed, and it can be denoted as key in the long term in efforts to increase the level of organisations. This paper aims at analysing the present state of focus of Slovak organisations on systematic education, on comprehensive targeting of education on all employees, as well as on the assessment of effectiveness in education in the context of a relationship to the region in which such organisations operate. Several partial objectives, such as a questionnaire survey conducted in Slovak organisations between 2013 – 2017, were fulfilled in order to accomplish this objective. Statistical hypothesis testing aimed at specifying the relationship between the region of operation of the given organisation and the execution of activities related to systematic education of employees in it, the focus of the organisation on education of all employees, and the assessment of effectiveness in the education provided by them, confirmed a link between the analysed variables. Positive changes in the selected attributes in time were evaluated by the fixed-base index.

Received: November, 2018

1st Revision: March, 2019

Accepted: May, 2019

DOI: 10.14254/2071-8330.2019/12-2/19

JEL Classification: E24, J24, M12

Keywords: employee development, human resource management, organizational learning, sustained education, regional development