Ljupco Eftimov

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• Professor (Full) at Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje

Purpose – Tourism was affected by recent monumental disruptions, making performance management critical for staying afloat and maximizing efficiency and workforce productivity. Thus, the purpose of this study is to synthesize the dominant performance management literature in tourism and provide a critical review and directions for future research....

The aim of the paper is to research employee engagement in the Republic of North Macedonia. To achieve this goal, the instrument for measuring organizational and job engagement developed by Saks (2006) has been used on a sample of 104 respondents. The results from the regression analysis indicate that perceived organizational support and job charac...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping human resource management (HRM) practices, extending its reach even to small and medi­um-sized enterprises (SMEs). Despite the prevalence of AI in HRM, its integra­tion into the practices of SMEs, traditionally characterized by limited HR re­sources, remains an understudied area in scientific litera...

Following the effects of digitalization and post-COVID workplace trends, digital work is here to stay. Defined as a professional environment where employees actively use information and communication technology (ICT) to complete their tasks and fulfil organizational objectives, the digital workplace is on the rise. On the managers’ side, the focus...

Purpose Researchers have tried analysing how the organizations’ practices of doing good can help improve their employees’ satisfaction over the past couple of decades. Employee satisfaction has a complicated relationship with a company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Subsequently, the purpose of this paper is to conduct a biblio...

Following the phenomena of the Great Resignation, quiet quitting, and ubiquitous remote work in post‐COVID human resource management, researchers’ interest in job autonomy has grown to an all‐time high. Besides the growing scientific maturity of the field, the extent to which employees should enjoy autonomy in crafting their workload, choosing thei...

As artificial intelligence (AI) found new applications in human resource (HR) practices in recent years due to its increasing accessibility, HR professionals question to which extent and where can this technology help them become more efficient and productive. Even though AI is not something new to HR functions like recruitment and selection, perfo...

The aim of the paper is to enhance the understanding of strategic human resource management (SHRM) as a concept by identifying the factors that impact its adoption in organizations and the potential outcomes, thus creating a comprehensive framework. This paper has been designed as an integrative literature review that attempts to answer the followi...

Remote workspaces are an integral part of the future landscape of work. As more employees and gig workers are interested in working from a location other than the organizations’ offices, it is vital for human resource management to recognize why a potential member of the organization would prefer a particular location over others and how to manage...

Boards’ strategic involvement has been a prominent issue in the management literature, although the research on boards work and how board members fulfill their roles is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate how boards members in companies with one-tier and two-tier board systems understand the concept of boards’ strategic...

Purpose – The study attempts to shed light on the level of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the human resource (HR) departments for the purposes of designing jobs through assessment of the willingness and utilization of the employees in the said departments. Aim(s) – The objective is to identify the primary antecedents that influence the...

While the breadth of applicative uses of data envelopment analysis (DEA) has increased over time, this non-parametric frontier methodology has proven effective for measuring how efficient decision-making units (DMUs) are. One of its uses is performance measurement in various organizations — from universities and banks to investment funds and entrep...

Propelled by the socio-economic disturbances and the COVID-19 pandemic, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, and Web3, which are characteristic of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR), have gained significant ground globally, including the developing countries. As organizations face the a...

Tourism has been one of the most affected sectors due to the COVID-19 pandemic globally. As a result, human resources (HR) professionals have faced an onset of challenges, as well as, opportunities in the new normal. Therefore, this paper will shed a light on the vital practices that HR professionals in the tourism sector implement and understand h...

Purpose – The drive for environmentally-sustainable tourism, seen as the consideration of present and future economic, social, and environmental effects while taking care of the needs of the tourist, the sector, the environment, and the host, has recently become a focus of many researchers and managers. To achieve environmental sustainability, the...

Propelled by the socioeconomic disturbances and the COVID-19 pandemic, advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), robotics, and Web3, which are characteristic of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR), have gained significant ground globally, including the developing countries. As organizations face the ar...

Background: The research on boards' strategic involvement has increased dramatically in the last few decades due to the need for improving boards' strategic effectiveness as a mechanism for improving organizational performance. The corporate scandals highlighted even more that boards' strategic decisions have sizable consequences for organizational...

This paper aims to make a review of the literature investigating the CEO succession as a board’s decision and to describe the process in a Macedonian company. The Covid 19 pandemic stressed the importance of CEO succession planning for achieving a higher level of organizational resilience. The crisis generated by the Covid 19 pandemic showed that b...

Human resource management (HRM), as a crucial constituent of crisis management, has paramount importance in managing the employees and ensuring business continuity, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the constellation of such circumstances, this paper aims to identify the impact of COVID-19 on the HRM in organizations and provide recommend...

The process of globalization and intensive technological development imposes the need to constantly introduce different types of organizational changes. Human resource managers in organizations are becoming increasingly aware that hiring and retaining talents are the most important determinants of success in the complex global world and that they m...

The way the employees in the health care sector were managed during the period 2020-2021 was crucial for the management of the overall social and economic crisis. The most important areas from strategic human resource management that needed urgent attention during COVID 19 pandemic were: appropriate communication of the requirements of the new norm...

This paper addresses the issue of the importance and necessity of introducing constant organizational changes and their impact on employee stress as one of the primary pull factors of the employee turnover intention. In this regard, human resource managers in organizations are becoming increasingly aware that hiring and retaining talents are the mo...

Based on our search in the Scopus data base with the phrases: "bibliometric analysis" and "performance measurement" and "business, management and accounting" in title - abstract - keywords we have not found any study considering this topic. Taking into account the importance of performance measurement in business, management and accounting we have...

The aim of this paper is to make an analysis of the reported changes in the boards' composition of the Macedonian stock exchange -listed companies during the Covid-19 crisis. In order to achieve this objective, secondary data of the companies reports published on the Macedonian stock exchange website were used. The sample consists of 80 companies,...

This paper elaborates the issue about job satisfaction, observing it through the prism of the factors that lead towards its achievement, but also observing whether its absence has an impact on the employees’ behavior in the organization, employees’ productivity, absenteeism, fluctuation, as well as customers’ behavior, satisfaction and loyalty. Bas...

Should fixed salary be the single and most appropriate tool for motivating employees; or should management consider a more diverse, innovative tools for motivation, based on multiple factors? Does a salary increase always guarantee ROI? Also, will sales professionals be motivated by an incremental, equal-to-all salary increase? This paper elaborate...

Youth unemployment remains unacceptably high in Europe. Despite increasing numbers of well-educated graduates, employers often report difficulties in recruiting a skilled young workforce. The prevailing view is that educational institutions are slow to respond to the needs of the business community and do not sufficiently incorporate skills develop...

The aim of the paper is to examine the relationship between the labor productivity and real net wages in Macedonia at the level of the whole economy, and in the sectors of industry and agriculture, both, in the period 2006-2015, i.e. shortly before the commencement and after the Great financial and economic crisis. The paper starts from the assumpt...

The little meaning, which HR managers attach to managing the rate of employee turnover, is mostly cause by the lack of specific tools to calculate its impact on the profitability of the companies. This paper presents a universal calculator for calculating the cost of employee turnover, which can be used in developing various effective retention strat...

To meet the challenges of sustainable development, strategic planning practices need to become more effective, efficient, credible and lasting. A sustainable development strategy is a tool for informed decision-making that provides a framework for systematic thought across sectors and territory. Following the recommendations of the UN World Summit...