Company A has experienced high voluntary staff turnover at middle management level between 2007 and 2009. During this period 35% of middle managers have resigned and, this has resulted in significant financial costs being incurred. This research focused on understanding what factors would make the current middle managers stay in Company A’s employment and what the financial impact has been due to these resignations. The research concluded that career development, people development by line manager, feedback of own work, a line manager who teaches and coaches subordinates, and working with a knowledgeable line manager, were the top five factors that would make the current middle managers stay in Company A’s employment. The research further concludes that there was a gap between Company A’s retention initiatives and what the middle managers actually value, thus the resignations. The research has also established that the middle managers’ resignations have had a significant financial impact on the organisation.

Company A has experienced high voluntary staff turnover at middle management level between 2007 and 2009. During this period 35% of middle managers have resigned and, this has resulted in significant financial costs being incurred. This research focused on understanding what factors would make the current middle managers stay in Company A’s employment and what the financial impact has been due to these resignations. The research concluded that career development, people development by line manager, feedback of own work, a line manager who teaches and coaches subordinates, and working with a knowledgeable line manager, were the top five factors that would make the current middle managers stay in Company A’s employment. The research further concludes that there was a gap between Company A’s retention initiatives and what the middle managers actually value, thus the resignations. The research has also established that the middle managers’ resignations have had a significant financial impact on the organisation.

The main goal of my diploma work is to analyse methods of staff recruitment in the company. Recruitment of staff is one of the key activities in a company. It is a process that deals with candidate´s competence, whether he will be able to perform a work at the given position according to specified criteria. There are a lot of methods of staff selection. The most widely used of them is an interview, an assessment centre, aptitude tests and a questionnaire. In the first part of my diploma work I deal with basic characteristics of staff recruitment and selection, methods of staff selection, especially with the interview, assessment centre and aptitude tests. In the second part of my diploma work I describe the system of staff selection in the unnamed company that offers audit, tax and advisory services, and analyse staff recruitment and selection there. On the basis of gained information I created SWOT analyse that defines strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in a company.

Master's thesis is doing research in the theoretical part in staff recruitment, factors of recruitment, sources and methods of recruitment, pre-selection and methods of staff selection, adaptation of new staff. The practical part includes analyses of these personal activities used in JF Dřevovýroba company by using methods of questionnaire research, at first. Further information is detected considering structured interviews with managers, other staff of this company, and internal documents. The goal of this thesis is to compare personal activities used in practice with findings of HR specialists. In case of finding some deficiencies in personal activities listed above, I propose their solution to improve these processes