Professional paper

MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES AS A PREREQUISITE OF INNOVATIVENESS AND BUSINESS EFFICIENCY

Nada Karaman Aksentijević ; Faculty of Economics; University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Zoran Ježić ; Faculty of Economics; University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
Katarina Đurić ; Faculty of Economics; University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Abstract

Numerous innovative solutions with the purpose of facilitating human life and work have emerged as a result of historical developmental changes. Strategic management of human resources becomes crucial for finding original solutions in the production- and service sector in order to meet growing market demands and to improve competitive position of enterprises. By inclusion of all the processes of planning and development of human resources into the long-term developmental policy, it is possible to increase innovativeness and to achieve high developmental objectives of the enterprise. In this paper, the authors attempted to prove that people, their constant development and use of their resources become the main agents of business efficiency, and that strategic management of human resources leads to better results through advancement of leadership, increase in performance and loyalty of the employees, increase in innovations and creation of a new business environment in which innovations become the driving force of development.

Keywords

human resources; innovativeness; business efficiency, investments in human resource

Hrčak ID:

21829

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/21829

Publication date:

20.3.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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