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Personnel Practices in Smaller Firms: A Survey and Recommendations

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  • Glenn M. McEvoy

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An interview survey of 54 businesses with between 25 and 250 employees was carried out in an effort to discover the strengths and weaknesses of current personnel practices in smaller firms. Most firms seemed to do reasonably well in terms of written personnel policies, providing praise and recognition for employees, and in carrying out informal job analyses. Areas needing improvement were human resource planning, job descriptions, performance evaluation, motivation and satisfaction of employees, creative recruitment and selection methods, pension planning, and upgrading the overall knowledge about personnel by those responsible for the human resource function. Recommendations for cost effective ways of addressing these shortcomings are made.

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  • Glenn M. McEvoy, 1983. "Personnel Practices in Smaller Firms: A Survey and Recommendations," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 8(2), pages 32-46, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:entthe:v:8:y:1983:i:2:p:32-46
    DOI: 10.1177/104225878300800207
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    1. Sita C. Amba-Rao & Dilip Pendse, 1985. "Human Resource Compensation and Maintenance Practices," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 10(2), pages 19-29, October.
    2. Nancy A. Sutton, 1986. "A Comparison of Insurance and Pension Plans in Large and Small Firms," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 11(2), pages 15-22, October.

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