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Trends and Tendencies in the Field of Improving the HR-Systems of Hungarian Public Universities
Trends and Tendencies in the Field of Improving the HR-Systems of Hungarian Public Universities

Author(s): József Poór, Andrea Bencsik, Iván Fekete, Gyula László, Zoltán Majó
Subject(s): Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Management and complex organizations, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: higher education; Hungary; New Public Management; HRM; knowledge;

Summary/Abstract: In recent years it has become accepted that, besides traditional success factors, human resource management (HRM/HR) plays an increasingly important role in organizational success and in retaining and improving domestic and international competitiveness (Gordon-Whitchurch, 2007). In the countries of the developed world – especially in the case of anglo-saxon “pioneers” – the public sphere (including universities) has left the normative “bureaucratic-administrative Taylorian” system, that is based on formal regulation, far behind (Farkas et al, 2003). These efforts provided models and experience that were applicable in the transforming countries of Europe, including Hungary. In view of the above, we intended to make a nonexhaustive overview – based on the sources of literature and the practices of 11 Hungarian universities – of the change of the situation of HR and the possibilities of its modernization in this field.

  • Issue Year: 10/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 61-76
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English