Human Resource Management Issues in Foreign-affiliated Firms in Slovakia
Human Resource Management Issues in Foreign-affiliated Firms in Slovakia

Summary/Abstract: This paper is based on a 1999 survey of the largest foreign investors in the Slovak Republic. It is a follow-up survey to one done in 1998. The objective of the first survey was to identify internal and external change in foreign direct investment (FDI) firms and to measure the impact of FDI on the restructuring of Slovak companies (see Ferenčíková, 1998). According to the results of the first study, implementation of modern management know-how and improvements in the quality of the labour force through training and education were both conside-red among the positive impacts of foreign investors on local companies and on the economy as a whole. The main objective of the second study is to measure the impact of foreign investors’ human resource management (HRM) practices on local companies and their environment in a more detailed way, to identify key problems in the human resource function in FDI-invested companies in Slovakia, and to describe the strategies that companies use to handle these problems.

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