Jana Blštáková Boeken

Industry 4.0, whose essence lies in massive digitalization, mutual communication and cooperation between people, automatization, appliances and products, will fundamentally affect not only the way in which the economy will produce but also the way people work. Therefore it is very demanding on business models, HR architecture and roles, as well as leadership of organizations. The monograph contains the results of the research focused on organisations in 4.0 business environment aiming to identify the consequences for human resources management in business practice in countries of CEE region. It aims to define the ways of building competitive enterprises through the systems of human resource management under the conditions of the fourth industrial revolution 4.0.

The international scientific seminar Managing and Developing Human Resources 2015 has been organized as one of the events of Faculty of Business Management, University of Economics in Bratislava on the occasion of 75th anniversary of the university establishment. The fundamental pillar of the event is the enhancement of cooperation of Academia and Business practice in the field of Human Resources Management. Therefore the seminar in 2015 has been given subtitle The Academic Bridge to HRM practice focused on main thematic fields of the seminar: Contemporary challenges to Human Resources Management, Status of HR departments and roles of HR leaders in organizations nowadays, Expectations on HR specialists in the context of tendencies in HRM development. The seminar had been organized with the cooperation of the Cranfield Network on Human Resources Management (CRANET). CRANET members were the core of invited participants of the seminar, delivering major source of scientific knowledge leaning on individual as well as common research results. The seminar has been hosting speakers from business practice, delivering contemporary issues of practical HRM as well as status on the best practice. There were present respected authorities of universities and business schools in Slovakia. Aims of the seminar were to create platform for presentation of the research results of teams joined in CRANET, enable presentation of empirical knowledge of HR leaders of Slovak enterprises, seeking new topics to projects for research and common fields, enhancement the cooperation between academic soil and business, and boost platform for new bonds to enhance institutional as well as personal further cooperation and delivery of the speakers’ book and the book of proceedings gathering contemporary research outputs of publishing participants. The seminar has been organized within the Scientific Project VEGA 1/0842/13 Flexibility of the workforce as the stability of employees and organization in the context of Lisabon Strategy 2020 and strategy of Europe 2020.

Publikácia je štruktúrovaná do trinástich kapitol, ktoré sa venujú príslušným funkciám riadenia ľudských zdrojov a sú doplnené o časti zaoberajúce sa najnovšími trendmi a aktuálnymi problémami v danej oblasti. Obsahuje komplexný pohľad na problematiku riadenia ľudí v podmienkach súčasných organizácií s dôrazom na podnikovú sféru. Vychádza z aktuálnych teoretických poznatkov, no opiera sa tiež o skúsenosti a výsledky mnohých, autormi realizovaných výskumných projektov. Učebnica vysvetľuje základné témy z oblasti riadenia ľudských zdrojov s aplikáciou systémového prístupu, teda komplexne opisuje obsah systému riadenia ľudských zdrojov, jeho jednotlivé prvky a väzby medzi nimi. Jednotlivé kapitoly sú na viacerých miestach tiež obohatené o príklady z podnikovej praxe. V závere každej kapitoly nájdete podnety na diskusiu vo forme otázok, praktických zadaní a prípadových štúdií. Z praktického hľadiska je prínosom nielen pre študentov, ale je aj hodnotným zdrojom štruktúrovaných teoretických východísk a príkladov z hospodárskej praxe pre manažérov pôsobiacich v podnikoch.