Hronec, MartinBeresecká, JankaHroncová Vicianová, Jana2025-07-012025-07-0120252729-8213https://doi.org/10.24040/eas.2025.26.1.20-42https://repo.umb.sk/handle/123456789/675In: Ekonomika a spoločnosť = The journal of economics and social research : vedecký časopis Ekonomickej fakulty UMB v Banskej Bystrici. Banská Bystrica : Vydavateľstvo Univerzity Mateja Bela Belianum, 2025. ISSN 2729-8213. Roč. 26, č. 1 (2025), s. 20-42.Based on secondary research in the local government environment and an analysis of theoretical approaches to social responsibility in the public sector, the scientific objective of the study is to identify the skills needed for local government management as a component of the economic and social pillar of social responsibility. The objective was to determine the actual effect of training on some selected measures of local government economic performance, which is a component of the economic pillar of social responsibility. The scientific study focuses on the theoretical and practical training of statutory and local government council members and how it affects some economic measures of local government performance, including economic performance, the size of the municipality’s net assets per capita, long-term and short-term liabilities, capital expenditures, fixed assets, liquidity, current account balance, and investment intensity. As part of the social pillar of social responsibility, the study also examined how education affects the economic pillar of social responsibility, which is responsible and effective governance.skCC BY-NC Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0. Internationalinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessúčinnosťefektívnosťeffectiveness manažmentmanagementkvalifikáciavzdelávanieeducationverejný sektorpublic sectorArticle