Hiring lay faithful in the Catholic Church : comparing HRM theory and practice

Vaupot, Zoran (author)

The role of lay employees in the Catholic Church has grown over the past few decades. As a consequence, the overall quality of human resources management (HRM), which includes the process of hiring, has become crucial within Church organisations. After an overview of the general theoretical findings about the process of hiring, we continue by presenting a survey executed among members of the Slovenian Bishops’ Conference about value orientations concerning the hiring of lay persons within the Slovenian dioceses. The survey results were unexpected. We attempt to explain them within the scope of possible differences between the general HRM theory findings and research focused exclusively on the Church. Our conclusion is that, as a rule, Church practice does not follow the principle of creating a large pool of possible candidates for the job. Rather, it depends on more personal, individual invitations communicated to previously selected applicants.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Catholic Church, lay faithful, hiring, recruitment, human resource managemnt
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2022
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 217-230
• Numbering: Letn. 82, [št.] 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164094
• UDC: 272-722.7:331.5
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2022/01/Vaupot
• COBISS.SI-ID: 114863619
• Publication date in RUL: 17.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Zaposlovanje laikov v Katoliški Cerkvi : primerjava teorije in prakse pri upravljanju s človeškimi viri

Abstract

Vloga laikov v Katoliški cerkvi v zadnjih desetletjih narašča. To pa pomeni, da je v cerkvenih organizacijah vedno bolj pomembna splošna kakovost funkcije upravljanja s človeškimi viri (UČV), ki vključuje tudi proces izbire bodočih sodelavcev. Po pregledu splošnih teoretičnih spoznanj o procesu izbire sledi predstavitev ankete, izvedene med člani Slovenske škofovske konference, o usmeritvah pri vrednotenju glede zaposlovanja laikov v slovenskih škofijah. Nepričakovani rezultati raziskave nas vodijo k poskusu iskanja razlage v okviru morebitnih razlik med splošnimi ugotovitvami teorije UČV in raziskavami, osredotočenimi zgolj na Cerkev. Ugotavljamo, da cerkvena praksa načelu oblikovanja velikega nabora možnih kandidatov za delovno mesto praviloma ne sledi. Raje ga nadomešča z bolj osebnimi, individualnimi povabili, ki jih posreduje predhodno evidentiranim potencialnim kandidatom.

• Keywords: Katoliška Cerkev, laiki, izbiranje, zaposlovanje, upravljanje s človeškimi viri