The role of hrm function in serbian companies: challenges and limitations
The renewal of the transition process, the liberalisation of economy and the entrance of foreign companies caused, altogether, considerable changes concerning the development of the HRM function in Serbia. Regardless of the changes which have taken place in the last few years, there is still no relevant research in Serbia which will confirm or disprove this trend. Thus, the aim of this paper is to investigate what the role of the HRM function in Serbia is today, and whether there are some limitations to the faster convergence of Serbian HRM practices toward contemporary HRM trends. In order to examine the role of the HRM function in Serbia, we carried out an exploratory research in 38 companies (with more than 66,000 of employees) which operate in Serbia, by using a questionnaire. The research results pointed out a few important conclusions indicating some changes did occur regarding the organizational position of the HRM function. However, Serbia still lacks competent HRM specialists regardless of the fact that Serbian HR departments are overstaffed.