Acta academica karviniensia 2018, 18(4):17-28 | DOI: 10.25142/aak.2018.025

USING OF TRADITIONAL RECRUITMENT METHODS AND TOOLS AND E-RECRUITMENT BY EMPLOYEES OF BABY BOOMERS GENERATION, GENERATION X, GENERATION Y AND GENERATION Z IN SELECTED HEALTHCARE SERVICE PROVIDERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

Jiří Bejtkovský
Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, Fakulta managementu a ekonomiky, Mostní 5139, 760 01 Zlín

The paper deals with the human capital management in today's modern information, communication and digital society. The aim of the article was to find out the current level of using of traditional recruitment methods and tools (offline recruitment) in a comparison with E-recruitment (online recruitment). This level of using was investigated and evaluated by employees of the Baby Boomers generation, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z in selected healthcare service providers in the Czech Republic. A questionnaire survey was conducted in the first quarter of 2018 via an anonymous structured questionnaire. One research hypothesis and one research question was formulated. The results of the research revealed that there is a statistically significant dependence between employees of a certain age generation in selected healthcare service providers in the Czech Republic and the active using of traditional recruitment methods and tools in human resource management area.

Keywords: baby boomers generation, Czech Republic, e-recruitment, generation X, generation Y, generation Z, healthcare service provider, recruitment
JEL classification: I10, J24, M12

Received: October 8, 2018; Revised: November 30, 1999; Accepted: November 21, 2018; Published: December 30, 2018  Show citation

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