Subject: Employee skills
Subject: SMEs
Subject: North Macedonia
Year: 2020
Type: Proceedings
Title: Identifying employee skills in SMEs in the Republic of North Macedonia
Author: Lozanoska, Aleksandra
Author: Piperkova, Irina
Author: Djambaska, Elizabeta
Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to identify current levels of knowledge, skills and abilities of the SMEs’ employees in North Macedonia, vis-à-vis firms’ needs for knowledge and skills. This paper analyzes the current levels of employee job-specific, soft, digital and entrepreneurial skills on a sample of firms in North Macedonia. For the purposes of this research, the employees were classified in three categories: core employees, supporting employees and managers. The results of the research show that the main challenge regarding the soft skills refers to solving complex problems, capacity for job analysis and initiative. Adapting to new technologies is found to be the weakest aspect of digital skill among employees. Entrepreneurial skills related to risk taking, capacity to generate new ideas, creativity and innovation as well as flexibility at work are also considered to be a challenge.
Publisher: EMAN 2020
Relation: EMAN 2020 – Economics & Management: How to Cope with Disrupted Times, Selected papers;4th International scientific conference, EMAN 2020
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/27059
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/27059Identifier: https://doi.org/10.31410/EMAN.S.P.2020.93
