Open Access Article SciPap-1005
Companies Attitudes Toward Key Positions and Employees Management
by Petra Horváthová 1,* iD icon, Šárka Velčovská 2 iD icon and Lenka Kauerová 3

1 Ekonomická fakulta, Katedra managementu, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, Ostrava 1 70200, Czechia

2 Ekonomická fakulta, Katedra marketingu a obchodu, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, Ostrava 1 70200, Czechia

3 Ekonomická fakulta, Katedra marketingu a obchodu, VŠB-TU Ostrava, Sokolská třída 33, Ostrava 1 70200, Czechia

* Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Abstract: An essential role in achieving or maintaining the competitiveness of any company is played by key employees. Therefore, businesses should pay attention to them. The article aims to identify the attitudes of companies operating in the manufacturing industry of the Moravian-Silesian region to management key positions and employees in the business environment and to present a proposal for a procedure for its effective and practical implementation and application. Data were collected on a sample of 105 enterprises. The current situation of using the management system of key positions and employees as well as the attitudes of the companies towards the implementation of the new system was evaluated, based on the results of the research. There was a low rate of use of given system in these businesses, with two thirds of companies showing an interest in implementing the new system. In order to verify the existence of statistically significant differences between the variables, Fisher's exact test was used, and the Phi and Cramer's V coefficients were also calculated. The output of the article also includes a proposal for a procedure for the implementation and application of the management of key positions and employees in practice.

Keywords: Management, Key Position, Key Employee, Process, System, Manufacturing Industry

JEL classification:   M12 - Personnel Management • Executives; Executive Compensation,   M50 - General

SciPap 2019, 27(3), 1005

Received: 25 February 2019 / Accepted: 9 December 2019 / Published: 30 December 2019