Ελληνική Κοινωνική Έρευνα -Greek Social Research

Σταυρούλα Σαρρή και Ευστράτιος Παπάνης 1. INTRODUCTION Human resource management is a discipline or science that focuses on all the human factors that coexist and interact in any organizational environment. These factors such as employee personality, work experience, education and many more have to be implemented and managed in a proper and careful way so that people can perform at their best potential. In highly productive and economically developed countries like U.S.A., Germany, England and other countries the application of human resource management practices has been developed more than in less developed countries like Greece. A country is like an organization or a company. The way that is governed characterizes its culture and the culture consists of elements such as values, customs, a certain type of communication between employees and employers, etc. The culture of Greece and hence, the culture of a Hellenic company promotes collectivism and the decisions are made mainly by the...