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Andragoški aspekti menadžmenta ljudskih resursa
Andragogical aspects of human resource management

Author(s): Samir Hodžić, Kristinka Ovesni
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Adult Education
Published by: JU ‘’Bosanski kulturni centar Kantona Sarajevo’’
Keywords: andragogy; management; andragogical aspects of human resource management; possibilities and types of andragogical interventions in the domains of human resource and organizational development;

Summary/Abstract: Human resource management is an applied discipline which embraces a body of knowledge about the human dimension of organization. Andragogy, with its main focus on learning and education of adults, and with a body of knowledge which explain the learning and education of adults as a core strategy of organizational development with implications in theory and practice of humans resource and organizational development, is one of the major theoretical foundations, and one of the fundamental theoretical perspectives of human resource management. The main purpose of this paper was a critical analysis of human resource management literature and based on it, the exploration of contribution of andragogy to human resource management. We considered that the andragogical perspective, in practice, provides a variety of possibilities and types of andragogical interventions in the domains of human resource and organizational development, therefore the researching and diagnosing of andragogical aspects of human resource development is a function of enhancing organizational performance. Hence, the additional focal point of our research was a theoretical exploration of possibilities and types of andragogical interventions in the domains of human resource and organizational development, as a possible base for future empirical researches of andragogical aspects of human resource management.

  • Issue Year: XV/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 11-36
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Serbian