Employees Training and Raising Enterprises’ Competitiveness, or Challenges of the Knowledge-Based Economy
Employees Training and Raising Enterprises’ Competitiveness, or Challenges of the Knowledge-Based Economy

Summary/Abstract: An aim of this article is to introduce into the subject matters of enterprise’s competitiveness, with a particular consideration of the importance of employees training under the knowledge-based economy’s conditions. The author undertook an attempt to determine the relationships between the aims and effects of employees training from the point of view of success of an economic entity in the market where innovativeness is of a greater and greater importance. She indicated the determinants of competitiveness, the importance of human resource management in raising enterprises’ competitiveness in the context of aims of employee training. An important determinant of employee training is selection of sources of financing. An analysis of the subject literature in the field of enterprise management and human resource management as well as the findings of secondary research surveys concerning the subject matters in question indicate the existence of the relationship between employee training and raising those enterprises’ competitiveness. Organisation operating in the knowledge-based economy, basing in their activities on competences and competing in the open market, should take care of raising the quality of work of all employees. The changing conditions of carrying out an economic activity require not only an adjustment of technologies of organisational processes to new needs but, first of all, the ongoing process of extending knowledge and skills of human resources of a given organisation. This is possible owing to taking into account the employee training and the selection of sources of financing thereof in the process of human resource management. An effect of the carried put training, the most important from the point of view of most organisations, is growth of their profits and strengthening their market position, possible owing to improvement of the quality of products and services offered to customers.

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