The Perception of Ethical Leadership in the Public and Private Sectors in Slovakia

Kirchmayer, Zuzana; Remišová, Anna; Lašáková, Anna

doi:10.5771/9783845298696-10

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“…A modern tool of human resource management, where enterprises take into account the freedom and personal responsibility of their employees, is to leave the responsibility of choosing a specific training to the individual (Ching & Hagood, 2019). A necessary condition for the successful implementation of such a tool is the introduction of a culture of safety (Kirchmayer et al, 2019), in which the employee is not afraid to admit his or her narrow place and thus creates room for potential development. The effectiveness of training is mainly dependent on selecting the right content and appropriate training methods (Hitka et al, 2018).…”

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The Application of Progressive HR Tools in the Environment of Slovak Enterprises

Stacho¹,

Ližbětinová²,

Stachová³

et al. 2022

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In the context of developments influenced by digitalization, as well as the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, and not most minor changes in employee demands on the working environment across all generations, new tools and concepts are being developed in the field of people management in order to sustain competitiveness. The main objective of the paper is to present results of research focused on a specific analysis of applying modern human resource management tools in entities operating in Slovakia with a focus on the maintenance and growth potential of their competitiveness in the European economic area. To meet this objective, particular data obtained through a questionnaire survey were statistically processed and 841 enterprises were contacted. Elements of playful principles (gamification), used in various human resource management tools, bring a positive effect both in saving resources and in qualitative outputs, which was the purpose of the research focus on identifying the existence of the so-called “aha effect”. Evaluations of formulated hypotheses as well as determination of whether there is a statistically significant dependence between the actual application in the enterprises and the degree of importance for their future in relation to individual tools and concepts in human resource management were carried out with the use of Spearman’s correlation test. The research results show that there is a strong positive and statistically significant dependence between the actual application of the analyzed tools and concepts in the enterprises and the perceived degree of their importance for the future competitiveness of the enterprises.

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Section: Employee Participation In Training As An Hr Functionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Application of Progressive HR Tools in the Environment of Slovak Enterprises

Stacho¹,

Ližbětinová²,

Stachová³

et al. 2022

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“…Interestingly, these findings are consistent with the Slovak research results showing that ethical leadership at the top of Slovak companies is less developed in public organizations. According to Kirchmayer et al [69], the public sector in Slovakia is lagging behind the private sector in ethical leadership. In addition, their results indicate differences in favor of leaders in private companies regarding ethical decision-making as well as the level of knowledge leaders have in ethics.…”

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“…One unexpected result in this study regards the similarity in perceptions of the business environment in public and private organizations. Many works suggest that public organizations and their private counterparts experience different problems within their organizational fields (e.g., [37,47,48,69,92]). However, this study revealed a kind of isomorphic tendency across the two fields, at least in the Slovak context.…”

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Differences in Occurrence of Unethical Business Practices in a Post-Transitional Country in the CEE Region: The Case of Slovakia

2021

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This study aims to contribute to the understanding of unethical practices in business and asks whether certain types of organizations are considerably more exposed to unethical business practices than others are. Drawing from the tenets of institutional theory, the paper investigates the occurrence of unethical practices in different organizational “fields”, namely the industry sector (with focus on Finance and Construction), company membership in professional networks, company ownership (public/private), and company age. The method of stratified random sampling by proportional allocation is used to establish the sample (n = 1295), composed mostly of company owners and higher managers. Results show that, in general, the industry sector, membership in professional networks, and company age are associated with significant variance in the perceived incidence of unethical practices, whereas company ownership has no significant effect in this regard. More specifically, the construction sector is significantly more exposed to unethical practices than other sectors in the sample, while the finance sector is not. Companies with membership in professional networks report a significantly lower occurrence of unethical practices. Young companies are significantly more exposed than their more mature counterparts; however, here the effect of company size must be accounted for. The research was conducted in one of the former CEE block countries—Slovakia. Given their common communist past and comparable peripeties with the transition process, these findings might be useful for understanding business ethics issues in a wider context of the CEE region.

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Management Reflections on Innovations in Digitalization, With an Emphasis on Degree of Work Autonomy

Stacho¹,

Stachová²,

Lukáč³

et al. 2023

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The objective of this research study is to identify the degree of implementation of innovations in the field of job digitalization and to identify whether jobs allow employees to maximum autonomy in the performance of their work. This study uses Computer Assisted Self Interviewing (CASI) to meet this objective and to test the hypotheses. Data distribution and collection were conducted throughout the year 2020; the research sample includes 841 companies from the EU 27 international environment. The holistic finding is that economic sector does not show significant differences in current levels of or expectations for innovations in the field of digitalization. This finding demonstrates that digitalization is a phenomenon that is not only linked to certain specific industries of the economy, but that affects the economy as a whole. The authors’ research demonstrates that EU 27 businesses, regardless of the sector in which they operate, are aware of the need to innovate in digitalization in order to remain competitive.

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The Perception of Ethical Leadership in the Public and Private Sectors in Slovakia

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The Application of Progressive HR Tools in the Environment of Slovak Enterprises

The Application of Progressive HR Tools in the Environment of Slovak Enterprises

Differences in Occurrence of Unethical Business Practices in a Post-Transitional Country in the CEE Region: The Case of Slovakia

Management Reflections on Innovations in Digitalization, With an Emphasis on Degree of Work Autonomy

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