Personalistic Human Capital Management: Basic Conditions (Personalistyczne zarzadzanie kapitalem ludzkim – podstawowe uwarunkowania)

The article discusses the issue of personalistic human capital management. The argument is based on a new approach to the employee within an organisation, as well as the role of the subjective determinants of employee activity in the effective attainment of strategic goals. The essence of the personalistic approach to human capital within an organisation is presented through the prism of personalism, mainly the personalistic concept developed by K. Wojty³a (later John Paul II), emphasising the autonomous value of human being as a person. Against such a backdrop, it is shown that the application of the personalistic approach to human capital requires resolving dilemmas associated with the recognition of both subjective and economic dimensions of actions. The outlined bi-directionality in the approach to a human being in the modern organisation greatly complicates the discussion about the personalistic perspective of the human being within an organisation. However, the author points to basic conditions of the personalistic human capital management in an organisation. Pro-social strengthening of organisational culture and the introduction of pro-social orientation into strategic activities, as well as axiological targeting of managers’ attitudes are necessary. These factors condition the presence of a personalistic norm in the long-term achievement of economic efficiency based on a fully subjective management of the organisation’s human capital.