HRM Practices and Problems in Family-Owned SMEs

2014 ◽  
pp. 113-130
Author(s):  
Burcu Özge Özaslan Çalişkan
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Modern Knowledge

In exchange for the need for more highly trained employees, there is not enough qualified labor in the market. Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economies of countries because of their characteristics about generating employment. Effective Human Resource Management (HRM) is becoming increasingly important in the modern knowledge-based economy and vital for the success of small- and medium-sized enterprises. However, there are few studies concerning HRM practices of SMEs. The purpose of this study is to analyze the current HRM practices of SMEs, especially which are family businesses, and to identify HRM practices and the problems within these SMEs. With the help of the literature review, helpful suggestions about HRM practices are developed for SMEs.

HRM Practices and Problems in Family-Owned SMEs

2016 ◽  
pp. 2304-2322
Author(s):  
Burcu Özge Özaslan Çalişkan
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Modern Knowledge

In exchange for the need for more highly trained employees, there is not enough qualified labor in the market. Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in the economies of countries because of their characteristics about generating employment. Effective Human Resource Management (HRM) is becoming increasingly important in the modern knowledge-based economy and vital for the success of small- and medium-sized enterprises. However, there are few studies concerning HRM practices of SMEs. The purpose of this study is to analyze the current HRM practices of SMEs, especially which are family businesses, and to identify HRM practices and the problems within these SMEs. With the help of the literature review, helpful suggestions about HRM practices are developed for SMEs.

Suzhi: an indigenous criterion for human resource management in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liguo Xu ◽  
Pinging Fu ◽  
Youmin Xi
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Indigenous Management ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Different Dimensions

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the indigenous concept of suzhi at individual and organizational levels, and identify its dimensions for human resource management (HRM) research and practice in China. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a comprehensive review of suzhi literature, Chinese cultural and historical literature, as well as Western mainstream HRM research, a multidimensional suzhi framework is conceptualized. Findings – As an indigenous expression, suzhi can be and has been adopted for Chinese HRM research and practice. As a multidimensional construct, one’s cognitive suzhi is jointly determined by corresponding moral suzhi, wenhua (knowledge-based) suzhi and zhuanye (professional) suzhi. Cognitive suzhi, in turn, determines one’s behavioral suzhi that drives employees to enhance organizational performance, and this relationship is moderated by psychological suzhi. Research limitations/implications – The proposed framework provides new insight for Chinese indigenous management research, particularly in developing suzhi measurement for different dimensions. It also informs HRM practices in recruiting, selection, performance analysis and employee career development. Originality/value – The complexity of suzhi dimensions from an organizational HRM perspective is analyzed. The resulting suzhi framework offers new insight for HRM research and practices in China.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing Investments into Human Resources to Support Company Performance

2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Jarmila Duháček Šebestová ◽  
Cristina Raluca Gh. Popescu
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Company Performance ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Development Goals

Human resources are very important in a business; however, the return on investment in human resources is longer than in fixed assets, so entrepreneurs frequently consider how much to actually invest. This article, based on primary research, examines the motivations for investment when a 20% profit is typically invested with a model return of around 14%. Those findings are supported by the results presented in Archetype models based on similarity clustering. The results are based on an empirical study (278 respondents, omnibus survey) in the Czech Republic. Moreover, the study concludes that the business experience positively influences human resource management and future development to increase the investment share. In essence, this article displays the paramount importance of human resources and human resource management in the international business environment, demonstrating that investments in human resources are crucial to the success of all businesses, positively and consistently supporting organizations’ performance, and entrepreneurship will continue to remain a vital component of the activities belonging to the post COVID-19 era. In addition, in an era governed by the influences specific to the knowledge-based society and the knowledge-based economy, in which intellectual capital will be considered one of the most relevant intangible assets of entities all over the world, the measurement of human resources investment will turn out to be essential for the success of all businesses, while taking the necessary steps in supporting sustainability, sustainability assessment and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

scholarly journals Human Resource Management in Crisis Situations: A Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (22) ◽  
pp. 12406
Author(s):  
Ingi Runar Edvardsson ◽  
Susanne Durst
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
Body Of Knowledge

The paper aims to present a systematic literature review in the field of human resource management in times of crisis since 2008. In that way gaps in the current body of knowledge can be established that justify future research guidelines. The study consists of an analysis of 56 articles published in journals indexed in the Web of Science database. The majority of the papers were published in recent years, indicating a growing interest in the field. To be included, the papers had to be (1) peer-reviewed papers, (2) empirical papers that report on HRM practices in firms, (3) written in English, and (4) published in the period 2008–2021. Four themes were identified: economic crisis and HRM, health crisis and HRM, natural disasters and HRM, and political instability and HRM. The findings provide valuable knowledge and understanding of the present situation of HRM in crises. A number of future research guidelines are presented, which may encourage more research in this crucial field of study.

Optimization Theory in the Application on the Flexible Management of Human Resource

2012 ◽  
Vol 155-156 ◽  
pp. 206-210
Author(s):  
Xiao Yan Jia ◽  
Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Optimization Theory ◽  
Mathematics Model ◽  
Business Enterprise ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Flexible Management ◽  
Study Type

Along with the emergence of the knowledge-based economy and the study type organization, the thought of flexible management is led to go into human resource, and develop a more and more important function.In human resource flexible management, the personnel is excellent to turn to install，while adjustment is the most decisive working talent in the whole human resource management. With the superior foundation for turning a theory，this paper made its thought use of the optimzation and adjustment in the optimzation and adjustment of business enterprise and the personnel, then built up the mathematics model of the optimzation and adjustment, and solved the mathematics model by applying MATLAB.Finally, proved the possibility and usefulness of the method.by a solid example verification.

scholarly journals Why Not Knowledge-Based HRM? Its Direct and Indirect Effect on Innovative Service Offerings

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402098300
Author(s):  
Norwan Ahmad ◽  
Ng Siew Imm ◽  
Yuhanis Abdul Aziz ◽  
Norazlyn Kamal Basha
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Business Service ◽  
Marketing Capability ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Human Resource Management Practices

This article is aimed at examining the effect, direct and indirect, of knowledge-based human resource management on innovative offerings of service small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Knowledge-based human resource management essentially reflects the central role played by the embedded knowledge-centric human resource management practices, which may lead to new or improved services. A cross-sectional survey was implemented involving a sample of 278 business service SMEs from Malaysia and indicated two key findings from the study. First, knowledge-based human resource management was found to positively influence innovative service offerings. Second, dynamic capability in the aspects of entrepreneurial orientation, marketing capability, and technological capability were found to mediate the knowledge-based human resource management–innovative service offerings relationship. This study espouses the potentials of creating innovative service offerings among business service SMEs through embedding knowledge perspective in human resource management practices as well as investment in dynamic capabilities.

scholarly journals Lordly Management and its Discontents: ‘Human Resource Management’ in Pakistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702199736
Author(s):  
Syed Imran Saqib ◽  
Matthew MC Allen ◽  
Geoffrey Wood
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Banking Industry ◽  
New Institutionalism ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Hrm Practices ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Cultural Script

New institutionalism increasingly informs work on comparative human resource management (HRM), downplaying power and how competing logics play out, and potentially providing an incomplete explanation of how and why ‘HRM’ and associated practices vary in different national contexts. We examine HRM in Pakistan’s banking industry and assess how managers’ espoused views of HRM practices reflect prevailing ones in dominant HRM models, and how they differ from early-career professionals’ perceptions of these practices. The cultural script of ‘seth’ (a neo-feudalist construction of authority) influences managers’ implementation of HRM policies and competes with the espoused HRM logic. We argue that managers will pursue a ‘seth’ logic when managing employees, as it reproduces existing power differentials within companies. By doing so, they render HRM unrecognizable from dominant models. Indeed, by using the term ‘HRM’, much of the existing, new institutionalism-influenced literature rationalizes a particular view of organizations and management that is inappropriate and analytically misleading in emerging economies.

The effect of high-involvement human resource management practices on supply chain integration

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 716-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baofeng Huo ◽  
Zhaojun Han ◽  
Haozhe Chen ◽  
Xiande Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
Supply Chain Integration ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
High Involvement ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Hrm Practices

Purpose – Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the purpose of this paper is to combine concepts from human resource management (HRM) and supply chain management (SCM) fields and explore the effects of high-involvement HRM practices on supply chain integration (SCI). Design/methodology/approach – Using empirical survey data collected from ten countries, the authors examine the specific effects of three dimensions of high-involvement HRM practices – employee skills, incentives and participation – on three types of SCI – internal integration, supplier and customer integration. The authors use structural equation modeling and the maximum-likelihood estimation method to test the proposed relationships. Findings – The results confirm the overall relevancy of HRM to SCI. However, several proposed links are not supported by the data collected. Originality/value – This study makes both theoretical and managerial contributions by empirically examining the interface between HRM and SCI. More specifically, it examines the effects of different high-involvement HRM practices on different types of SCI. The findings will not only help researchers to better understand the interface, but will also guide managers in adjusting HRM practices to achieve desired operational goals.

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