Personnel Management in Slovakia: An Explanation of the Latent Issues

Recruitment and selection of new employees are key business activities if enterprises are to provide for long-term, sustainable and quality production. The lack of regulation in this area through labour relation laws in Slovakia (the legislation in the labor code is too general) has led to an increasing number of cases negatively affecting employees’ legitimate interests as well as an increasing number of disputes claiming compensation for non-material damage. Therefore, the employee selection procedure has become a complicated process with much uncertainty for an employer. The aim of this paper is to analyse and assess the process of recruitment, selection and dismissal in the context of hidden legislative limitations and to highlight practical issues linked to the management of these processes by enterprises.