Human resource management challenges in a Slovenian social enterprise : a case study

Booth, Michelle (author), Shin, Hyemi (author), Slavec Gomezel, Alenka (author)

There is a growing number of studies exploring social enterprise in order to increase the understanding of business sustainability and resilience in the social economy. However, little is known about how social enterprises or social entrepreneurs emerging from not-for-profit sectors have faced human resource management (HRM) challenges in practice. In this study, we focus on a hospitality social enterprise founded by social workers in Slovenia as a single case study. Through a series of combined interview and observation methods, we investigate the HRM challenges this social entrepreneur faced when pursuing sustainable social business. We uncovered four strategic and HRM challenges that contribute to the existing body of knowledge in the social enterprise literature. This study paves the way for future studies to focus on HRM in social enterprise.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Slovenia, social entrepreneurship, enterprises, personnel, career
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 65-81
• Numbering: Vol. 4, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-114829
• UDC: 331.108
• ISSN on article: 2397-4575
• DOI: 10.22324/ijhrdppr.4.205
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25558502
• Publication date in RUL: 17.03.2020

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: International journal of human resource development practice, policy & research
• Publisher: International Federation of the Training and Development Organisations (IFTDO) and the University Forum for HRD (UFHRD)
• ISSN: 2397-4575
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25557990

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.
• Licensing start date: 17.03.2020

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: Slovenija, socialno podjetništvo, kadri, kariera

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• Project number: 734824
• Name: Global Entrepreneurial Talent Management 3
• Acronym: GETM3