Any organization applying the strategic approach to
HRM should create long-term plans for their HR activities. It
is one of the prerequisites for achieving the objectives set. It
is important to note that the HRM aims also support the
achievement of corporate objectives. Therefore long-term
orientation in the HRM area is a prerequisite for the
effective run of the organization in the long term. The
results point to the fact that the vast majority of companies
(67.65%) have devised long-term plans, but only for certain
HR activities. A relatively large proportion of respondents
(25%) have expressed that they processed no long-term
plans for HRM, which confirms the fact that the level of
implementation of a strategic approach to HRM in Slovakia
is still low.
In the second part of the research, the perception of the
importance of human resources and their management by
HR managers of companies was studied. It is the importance
which HR managers attribute to their employees, which
affects the level of various HR activities, which in turn
ultimately also influences other business areas.
We have investigated the perception of the importance
in a questionnaire made out of four items, in which
respondents rated the importance of human resources in
four aspects, namely:
1. The overall importance of employees for their
organization.
2. The importance of human resource management in the
achievement of the business objectives.
3. The importance of human resources in terms of overall
business performance