Amalia Tola – Agricultural University of Tirana, Faculty of Economy and Agribusiness, Tirana, Albania
7th International Scientific-Business Conference – LIMEN 2021 – Leadership, Innovation, Management and Economics: Integrated Politics of Research – SELECTED PAPERS, Online/virtual, December 16, 2021, published by the Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans, Belgrade; Printed by: SKRIPTA International, Belgrade, ISBN 978-86-80194-53-0, ISSN 2683-6149, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/LIMEN.S.P.2021
Keywords:
Human Resources
Management;
Human resources
department;
Organizational performance
Abstract
Human Resources Management is an important function of organยญizational management. The way an organization uses its human resources for the development and implementation of its strategies can strongly affect its performance. Human Resources Management (HRM) in the context of a marยญket economy is still a new concept in Albania.
About thirty years after the transition from a centralized economy towards a free-market economy, the job relations in Albania are undergoing important changes; therefore, businesses should be able to successfully face the fast deยญvelopment of technology, globalization effects, and the need to have an effiยญcient and effective labour force to fulfill, in the best way possible, the economยญic objectives. The role of the HR department is crucial towards such achieveยญments; however, this role and its potential towards organization success is not fully appreciated by the Albanian private sector companies and often the HR department is not existent, or its role is vague.
This paper uses literature review and quantitative research to analyse the role of the HR department as a key function of organizational management and to explore the extent of HR department presence in the big companies in Albaยญnia, in the view of ownership and type of business activity.
Download file
LIMEN Conference
Creative Commons Nonย Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission.ย
References
Baird, L., & Meshoulam. (1988). Managing two fits of strategic human resource management. Academy of Management Review, 13(1), 116-128
Becker, B., Huselid, M., Pickus, P., Spratt, M. & Coopers, P. (1998). HR as a Source of Shareholdยญer Value: Research and Recommendations. Human Resource Management. 36. 10.1002/ (SICI)1099-050X(199721)36:13.0.CO;2-X.
Brewster, C., Wood, G., Brookes, M., Van Ommeren, J. (2006). โWhat determines the size of the HR function? A cross national analysis.โ Human Resource Management, Wiley Periยญodicals, Spring 2006, Vol. 45, No. 1, 3โ21.
Dessler, G. (2007). Human resource management, 11th ed. Pearson
Fernandez-Sanchez, J., Juana-Espinosa, S., Valdes-Conca, J. (2008). Exploring the relation beยญtween the use of HRIS and their implementation in Spanish firms. Encyclopedia of Huยญman Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM, Information Science Referยญence, Hershey, New York.
Galanaki, E., Panayotopoulou, L. (2008). Adoption and success of E-HRM in European firms. Encyclopedia of Human Resources Information Systems: Challenges in e-HRM, Informaยญtion Science Reference, Hershey, New York.
Gubbins, C., Garavan, T. N., Hogan, C., & Woodlock, M. (2006). Enhancing the role of HRD function: The case of a health services organisation. Irish Journal of Management, 27(1), 171 โ 206.
Hellriegel, D., Jackson, S., Slocum, J. & Staude G. Management. (2009), โManaging human resourcesโ, Chapter 13. Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.
Hornsby, J. S., & Karatko, D. F. (1990). Human resource management in small business: Critical Issues for the 1990s. Journal of Small Business Management, 28(3), 9-18
Marchington, M., Wilkinson, A., (1997). Core Personnel and Development. London, Institute of Personnel and Development.
Phillips, R. (1997). โNew measures for business.โ In Measuring Business Excellence, v1, n1, 4-7.
Ramsey, H., Scholarios, D. & Harley, B. (2000). Employees and high-performance work sysยญtems: testing inside the black box. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 38(4): 501-531.
Rea, L. M., & Parker, R. A. (1992). Designing and conducting survey research. San Francisco: Jossey-Boss.
Storey, J (2001) Human resource management today: an assessment, in (ed) J Storey, Human Resource Management: A critical text, 2nd ed., London, Thompson Learning, 3โ20.
SHRM (2015). Workforce Analytics: A Critical Evaluation. How Organizational Staff Size Inยญfluences HR Metrics.
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/trends-and-forecasting/special-reports-and-expert-views/Docยญuments/Benchmarking%20Workforce%20Analytics%202015.pdf
