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Participation of all Employee Categories in Innovation Processes in Slovak Organisations

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Dynamically changing environment and the coming fourth industrial revolution represent a great challenge for businesses not only in Slovakia; and increasing companies´ innovation potential is the way how such challenges can be successfully dealt with. The internal potential of a company is most significantly affected by the potential and commitment of its employees, which can be directly influenced by the individual activities of human resource management. The paper aims at analysing the focus of Slovak organisations on the activities associated with the commitment of all employees in innovation processes, and at identifying the overall change in their orientation on this issue in time. A questionnaire survey conducted between 2014 and 2018 was used to achieve the purpose of the article, which was followed by the statistical evaluation of the research hypotheses, and the evaluation of the overall change of the examined attributes using the indices of change. The obtained results showed a positive trend as to the level of the commitment of all employees in innovation processes; however the uncovered present state was not considered to be sufficient.

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Acknowledgements

This research was supported and funded by APVV-17-0656 titled Transformation of Paradigm in Management of Organizations in the Context of Industry 4.0, by H2020 No. 5 L03-873134 with title “Linking Science and Innovation for Gender Equality” and and by KEGA project No. 030STU-4/2018 called “E-platform for Improving Collaboration among Universities and Industrial Enterprises in the Area of Education“.

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  2. Institute of Industrial Engineering and Management, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Trnava, Slovakia

    Dagmar Cagáňová

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Stacho, Z., Stachová, K. & Cagáňová, D. Participation of all Employee Categories in Innovation Processes in Slovak Organisations. Mobile Netw Appl 25, 853–859 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-020-01518-2

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