Andrej Bertoncelj

The influence of management capital on enterprise performance

Human capital is becoming more important than economic capital in todays knowledge society. Presented in this study is a financial yardstick for measuring management capital efficiency and human value added, as well as its practical implementation on a research sample of 154 managers in Slovene small and medium enterprises. This study suggests that Slovene managers are not prone to risk taking and dealing with unknowns; moreover, they are neither sufficiently flexible nor intuitive. Study provides a framework for investigation of the role and value add of management.

Occupational gender segregation in Slovenia: sustainable economy perspective

This paper aims to study occupational gender segregation in Slovenia as one of the indicators of social equity, which is one of the bottom lines of sustainable development, and to compare it to other EU countries. Females in Slovenia are still in an unfavourable position and the process towards a market economy has not solved the issue. The historical effects of declarative equality in Slovenia have resulted in a higher rate of female employees in industrial sectors. However, content equality as measured by the number of female legislators, senior officials, managers and female members of parliament, the gender pay gap and contributing family workers indicates that real equality has not yet been reached. Though occupational gender segregation exists in Slovenia, research shows that females in Slovenia are in a better position regarding occupational segregation than their counterparts in the observed countries and that higher economic development results in higher occupational gender specialisation.