The Strategic Human Resources Management in SME Sector

Strategic approach to human resources management enables a consistent use of modern tools for managing human resources in an enterprise. This allows enterprises to achieve close integration of the different systems of human resources management and increase their effectiveness. Effective activity in the strategic dimension requires involvement of all entities operating in the area of the personal function, i.e. managerial staff at all levels, employees, trade unions or personal counselling companies. The aim of this paper is to identify the strategic dimension of human resources management of SME as presented in literature on the subject. Further part presents findings of empirical studies, which enabled verification of the hypotheses and formulation of conclusions. The findings presented in this paper were obtained during the implementation of the project entitled "Tendencies and challenges in strategic managing SME in Silesian Voivodeship". The aim of the studies was to diagnose the state of strategic management and human resources manegement taking into account its impact on the functioning of small and medium enterprises operating in Silesian Voivodeship and to indicate improvement areas of the model under diagnosis. One of the specific objectives of the studies was to diagnose the state of the process of strategic management of human resources and to identify fundamental problems. In this area, the main hypothesis was formulated: The enterprises analysed do not have comprehensive strategies for management of human resources.