Budżetowanie kosztów pracy jako narzędzie controllingu personalnego
Labour cost budgeting as a tool of personal controlling

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary human resource management specialists have the status of business partners. This role requires sufficient knowledge of the organisation, necessary for the specialists to contribute to the development of strategic solutions and cost optimization through, for instance, personal controlling, i.e. controlling adapted to handle the HRM function. The personnel controlling concept comes with a variety of tools, one of which is the labour cost budgeting. This interdisciplinary article presents the complex matter of human resource management in the context of personnel controlling. In particular, it provides an insight into the nature of personnel controlling and labour costs, and describes how personnel controlling units and HRM units are related to each other. Based on a critical review of the literature (mainly international), the article integrates the knowledge of personnel cost budgeting and attempts to evaluate its usefulness for management purposes. Its conclusions can be used as reference by researchers and practitioners (mainly heads of the personnel function and personnel controlling), as well as by economics students. In the author’s opinion, personnel cost budgeting can be a key tool allowing an organisation to control these costs and consequently improving the effectiveness of organisational management.

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