Comparison of human resource management in Slovenian family and non-family businesses

Iztok Kopriva (Author), Mojca Bernik (Author)

Abstract

The room to reach a competitive advantage in today's dynamic world, companies have in unutilized and even unknown human abilities of own employees. Treatment of people at work in large organizations is well analyzed, but little focus is directed at small and medium-sized enterprises. This is particularly true for family businesses. Small and medium-sized enterprises are largely owned by individual families and are an extremely important part of developed economies. Complexity of internal relationships and interplay between the two systems: families and businesses, which often lead to conflicts in interaction, however, is the reason that many managers and professionals are not willing to work in family businesses. It is justified to set the research question; Are we obligate to treated family businesses as a special case when considering the management of people at work? This paper presents the need to address the family businesses as a special case. In a successful and long living family businesses undoubtedly are closely and carefully working with the employees. It is little known about dealing with people in a Slovenian family businesses and how management practices differ from non-family firms. Based on the study of literature and conclusions from a qualitative empirical study the differences are presented in this article. There are also presented differences in practices of dealing with people at work in foreign and Slovenian non-family and family businesses. At the end there are exposed a good practices of each type of business and recommendations for their use.

Keywords

human resource management;employees;family business;nonfamily business;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2009
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UM FOV - Faculty of Organizational Sciences
Publisher:	Moderna organizacija
UDC:	005
COBISS:	6554131
ISSN:	1318-5454
Parent publication:	Organizacija
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary title:	Primerjava ravnanja z ljudmi pri delu v slovenskih družinskih in nedružinskih podjetjih
Secondary abstract:	Manevrski prostor za pridobitev konkurenčnih prednosti podjetja v današnjem dinamičnem svetu je v neizkoriščenih in celo neznanih človeških zmožnostih. Ravnanje z ljudmi pri delu v velikih organizacijah je dobro analizirano, majhen fokus pa je usmerjen na majhna in srednje velika podjetja. To še posebej velja za družinska podjetja. Majhna in srednje velika podjetja so v svetu v veliki meri v lasti posameznih družin in so izredno pomemben del razvitih gospodarstev. Zapletenosti notranjih razmerij in prepletanja dveh sistemov: družine in podjetja, ki nemalokrat v interakciji povzročata konflikte, pa je vzrok, da mnogi managerji in strokovnjaki niso pripravljeni delati v družinskih podjetjih. Tako je upravičeno postaviti raziskovalno vprašanje; Ali naj družinska podjetja obravnavamo kot poseben primer pri proučevanju ravnanja z ljudmi pri delu? V prispevku je predstavljeno, da je potrebno obravnavati družinska podjetja kot poseben primer. Uspešna ter skozi več generacij živeča družinska podjetja nedvomno skrbno ravnajo z zaposlenimi. Malo pa je znanega, kako ravnajo z ljudmi v slovenskih družinskih podjetjih in kako se prakse ravnanja razlikujejo od nedružinskih podjetij. Na podlagi študija literature ter opravljene empirične kvalitativne raziskave so v prispevku predstavljene razlike v praksah ravnanja z ljudmi pri delu v tujih in v slovenskih družinskih in nedružinskih podjetjih ter izpostavljene dobre prakse tako enega kot drugega tipa podjetja in priporočila za njihovo uporabo.
Secondary keywords:	ravnanje z ljudmi pri delu;zaposleni;družinsko podjetje;nedružinsko podjetje;
URN:	URN:NBN:SI
Type (COBISS):	Scientific work
Pages:	str. 246-254
Volume:	ǂLetn. ǂ42
Issue:	ǂšt. ǂ6
Chronology:	2009
DOI:	10.2478/v10051-009-0021-2
ID:	1733537