Managing the competences of key employees in modern enterprises

Abstract

This article is a continuation of the 2017 research process devoted to the identification of key employees in companies participating in the research process. Now the main goal of the research is to analyze the methods of competence management of this group of employees in the surveyed companies. Of course, at the beginning the author identified and described these competences and this group of employees. In the further part of the article, the author tried to evaluate the actions taken by companies in order to optimally manage and use this capital to build competitive advantage. These objectives determined the further course and character of the research - the author used the following set of research methods: analysis of the subject literature, comparison of defined terms and interview with the managerial staff of the surveyed enterprises. The survey was conducted in 2018 in 100 randomly selected large enterprises with the seat in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) - in total 361 people took part in the survey. As the literature analyses and empirical studies have shown, the degree of utilisation of workers' potential is at different levels - there is a distance between developing countries and the richest and most developed countries. This is strange because the company's management is aware of the importance of this capital for the future of its organisations. They also know what barriers they would have to overcome in order to better manage them. Therefore, according to the author of the article, we have to remove all barriers that prevent the optimal use of the potential of this group of employees. For the organization, this will mean greater efficiency, greater innovation and flexibility in adapting to changes. And for employees, intelligently organised work will be easier, more useful, more satisfying and satisfy a wider range of needs.