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Ekonomska kriza i ljudski resursi: Studija slučaja za Hrvatsku
Economic Crisis and Human Resources: Case Study of Croatia

Author(s): Mario Bogdanović, Željko Mateljak
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Ekonomski fakultet u Sarajevu
Keywords: economic crisis; human resources; macrofunctional management of human resources; SWOT analysis; improving of solution

Summary/Abstract: This paper explains the strategic need of human resources for anti-crisis and developmental economic solutions, points out the strategic keys for developmental Croatian policies in a manner of human resources. It begins from explanation of crisis, diagnosis of human resources by means of quantitative indicators (global competitiveness) and qualitative indicators (SWOT analysis of Croatian human resources), and correlating the crisis with human resources. For the diagnosed sub-optimalities of Croatian human resources the following anti-crisis and developmental solutions are suggested: a) application the concept of macrofunctional human resource management; b) changes in institutional functioning on central and local level. Finally, it is concluded that the key for anticrisis and developmental movements are human resources, rich with human developmental characteristic but also helped with synergy of institution and his politics.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 486-502
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Croatian
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