Comparative evaluation of the practical areas of human resource management in Lithuania and Latvia

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to identify the significant aspects of human resource management practices. The article discusses significant aspects of human resource management practices in the context of the high performance human resource management. The authors carried out a comparative theoretical analysis of the various functional areas of human resource management practices. This paper presents the results of experts’ evaluation of human resource management in organizations of Latvia and Lithuania in terms of a set of performance enhancing human resource management practices. Based on this investigation, the authors reveal the spread of effective human resource management practices realized in Latvian and Lithuanian organizations. The directions for future researches of effective human resource management practices in Latvian and Lithuanian organizations are proposed.