ABSTRACT

Well-managed employment relationships can be a secret to business success, yet this factor is relatively poorly understood when it comes to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME’s).

Written by active researchers with teaching experience, this book brings together the fields of entrepreneurship and human resource management for the first time, providing entrepreneurship students with a solid grounding in HRM as well as a platform for further critical engagement with the research. The concise and authoritative style also enables the book to be used as a primer for researchers exploring this under-developed terrain.

As the only student-focused specialist book on human resource management in entrepreneurial firms, this is vital reading for students and researchers in this area, as well as those interested in small business and management more generally.

part I|45 pages

The distinctive case of SMEs

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|12 pages

From entrepreneur to owner-manager

chapter 3|15 pages

Shaping employment relationships in SMEs

part II|61 pages

Managing human resources

chapter 4|14 pages

Recruitment and selection

chapter 5|15 pages

Training and development

chapter 6|17 pages

Reward and recognition

chapter 7|13 pages

Staff turnover

part III|39 pages

Rethinking HRM in SMEs

chapter 10|11 pages

Conclusion

The management of human resources in SMEs