THE SPECIFICS OF RISK MANAGEMENT IN TOURISM SMES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES
THE SPECIFICS OF RISK MANAGEMENT IN TOURISM SMES FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF HUMAN RESOURCES

Summary/Abstract: Ensuring the prosperity of a company in the current conditions brings various risks which SMEs must face. It is important also for tourism SMEs to apply risk management, which plays an important role in their activities and its successful implementation depends on the abilities of owners/managers. The main aim of the paper is to empirically explore the specifics of risk management in tourism SMEs from the point of view of human resources. The aspect of human resources in this paper is focused on the responsibility for risk management and the attitudes towards the used methods within the process of risk management, and the attitudes towards risk prevention by the person responsible for risk management in the company. This analysis is the result of a questionnaire survey conducted among 531 Slovak tourism SMEs. For the evaluation of respondents’ answers the Chi-square test of dependency and Cramer V were used. This study found that the responsibility for risk management in SMEs lies primarily on owners of SMEs who use various risk prevention measures.

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