TY  - JOUR
AB  - The study is an attempt to provide empirical evidence, in the context of acute hospital care, of the current human resource practices in the health sector of the Slovak Republic. Using a sample of 72 acute care hospitals the research explored the perceived functions, typical customers and priorities of hospital human resource departments, ownership of a workforce plan, and the relationships between ownership of a workforce plan and type of hospital, as well as the degree to which different human resource activities are given priority. Cross‐tabulation procedure revealed statistically significant relationships between ownership of a workforce plan and the degree of priority given to having a quick, efficient and cost‐effective recruitment and selection system and, not surprisingly, the degree of priority given to ensuring that the human resource department has a workforce plan. The study evidence also indicates that, although the human resource staff in hospitals seem to be aware of their role in assisting hospital management in decision making, the human resource function in the Slovak hospitals still rather resembles that of a personnel administration than that of an important strategic human resource activity.
VL  - 14
IS  - 5/6
SN  - 0268-9235
DO  - 10.1108/02689230010363007
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/02689230010363007
AU  - Wagner Robert
AU  - Hlavacka Svatopluk
AU  - Bacharova Ljuba
PY  - 2000
Y1  - 2000/01/01
TI  - Hospital human resource planning in Slovakia
T2  - Journal of Management in Medicine
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 383
EP  - 405
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -