CONVERGENCE AND DIVERGENCE IN HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN SELECTED COMPANIES IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC

Sa？etak The current stage of our society’s development is characterized by the escalating effects of globalization worldwide. It is also a significantly reflected in personnel work in the companies. Working in an international environment is demanding and requires collaboration among people of different cultures. Local policies used and accepted in domestic enterprises is gradually changing - it is internationalized. There are also changes in the approaches of multinational companies to human resources management. The purpose of the paper is to present the views of experts on international human resources management, assessed by several authors, and to adopt evaluation opinions. We assume that the differentiated approaches of the multinational (parent) company to the subsidiaries influence the degree of convergence and divergence in management. The theoretical knowledge will be supported by the results of the survey conducted in 2018 in 271 companies in Slovakia selected on the basis of their international scope and long-term performance. The expected result is to verify the dependence between the chosen approach to human resources management and the competence of subsidiaries in designing and implementation of standards, norms and directives using the Pearson chi-square test