Knowledge and Human Capital as Sustainable Competitive Advantage in Human Resource Management

Miloš Hitka, Alžbeta Kucharčíková, Peter Štarchoň, Žaneta Balážová, Michal Lukáč and Zdenko Stacho
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Alžbeta Kucharčíková: Faculty of Management Science and Informatics, University of Žilina, Univerzitná 8215/1, 010 26 Žilina, Slovakia
Peter Štarchoň: Faculty of Management, Comenius University in Bratislava, Odbojárov 10, P.O. BOX 95, 82005 Bratislava, Slovakia
Žaneta Balážová: Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Technical University in Zvolen, T. G. Masaryka 24, 960 01 Zvolen, Slovakia
Michal Lukáč: Faculty of Social Sciences, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Bučianska 4/A, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia
Zdenko Stacho: Institut of Civil Society, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava, Bučianska 4/A, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 18, 1-18

Abstract: The ability to do business successfully and to stay on the market is a unique feature of each company ensured by highly engaged and high-quality employees. Therefore, innovative leaders able to manage, motivate, and encourage other employees can be a great competitive advantage of an enterprise. Knowledge of important personality factors regarding leadership, incentives and stimulus, systematic assessment, and subsequent motivation factors are parts of human capital and essential conditions for effective development of its potential. Familiarity with various ways to motivate leaders and their implementation in practice are important for improving the work performance and reaching business goals. Pearson’s chi-square test is used to test correlation between the motivation factors relating to career aspiration and education. Following the research results, the fact that there is dependence between the motivation factors relating to career aspiration and completed education can be stated. The motivation factors relating to career aspiration are important, even very important for highly educated employees and employees with upper secondary education. Following the research results, the fact that the requirements and expectations relating to career aspiration are more demanding when the education completed by employees is higher is confirmed.

Keywords: human resources management; sustainable human resource management; knowledge; leadership; motivation; career (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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