People as a Key Resource of Company Performance

Recent years have seen a lot of new management approaches for improving organizational performance such as: total quality management, flat organizations, empowerment, continuous improvement, reengineering, kaizen, team building, and so on. Business leaders today are forced to focus even more on the profitability of their business. During the last several years, companies have initiated Performance Management (PM) systems to improve the quality of their management. In many companies they have succeeded, but in quite a few they have failed. This article presents the importance of Human Resources Management (HRM) and employees as a key factor on success of the company. Authors report that people in organization are a key resource of performance of company. The aim of the article is to analyze literature review and findings of researches with the purpose of completing the PhD theses of authors.