Personnel strategy in corporate groups – empirical investigation

Narodowe Centrum Nauki

Katarzyna Grzesik

The growing importance of multi-entity business organizations results in the need to consider the specific nature of their functioning, both as a whole and in terms of their particular components. It is also possible by means of analyzing the individual functioning areas of corporate groups, including e.g. the personnel function, which unfortunately is not reflected either in the subject literature or in the performed empirical studies. The article discusses problems of personnel strategy construction and implementation, as well as its relations with the global strategy in corporate groups. Based on the theoretical material collected following subject literature studies the analysis was conducted regarding personnel function evolution towards the strategic management of human resources, which resulted in this function being assigned a high rank. Therefore it constitutes the background for personnel strategy creation the relations of which with the global strategy can have a different dimension. The article also presents the results of quantitative research conducted in 101 corporate groups located in the area of Poland, focused on the process of personnel strategy construction, its subject matter and its relations with the global strategy followed by the studied entities.