Human Resource Management Challenges in a Slovenian Social Enterprise: A Case Study

Michelle Booth; Hyemi Shin; Alenka Slavec Gomezel

doi:10.22324/ijhrdppr.4.205

Human Resource Management Challenges in a Slovenian Social Enterprise: A Case Study

Michelle Booth
, Hyemi Shin
, Alenka Slavec Gomezel

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	65-81
Number of pages	18
Journal	International Journal of HRD Practice, Policy and Research
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.22324/ijhrdppr.4.205
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019
Externally published	Yes

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The International Journal of HRD Practice, Policy & Research is a publication of the the European Association of People Management (EAPM), the University Forum for Human Resource Development (UFHRD) and the World Federation of People Management Associations (WFPMA). It is published under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC-BY-NC) License. This permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.

Copyright on any research article published by the IJHRDPPR is retained by the author(s). Authors grant EAPM, UFHRD and WFPMA a license to publish the article and identify itself as the original publisher. Authors also grant any third party the right to use the article freely as long as its integrity is maintained and its original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.

Keywords

Social enterprise
HRM
entrepreneurship
Slovenia

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