Formal Human Resource Management Practices in Small Growing Firms

By Bernice Kotey, Peter Slade. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation

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Employee Training in SMEs: Effect of Size and Firm Type—Family and Nonfamily (2007, background): “Hornsby and Kuratko (1990), Loan-Clarke et al. (1999), and Kotey and Slade (2005) reported that training is increasingly delegated to specialists within and outside the firm as the firm grows and that training becomes more formal, structured, and oriented toward developing employees for higherlevel…”
An empirical study of high performance HRM practices in Chinese SMEs (2006, positive): “When this occurs, owners and managers of SMEs may come to realise the importance of formally adopting HRM systems and the associated benefits of nurturing people’s creativity, and even the creation of competitive advantage and growth through people (Bacon et al. 1996; Kerr and McDougall 1999; Kaman ”
Linking HR formality with employee job quality: The role of firm and workplace size (2010, background): “B L A C K B U R N The process of managing a small fi rm differs from managing a large fi rm, because small fi rms face distinct forms of risk and organize their human resources differently, often informally (Kotey & Slade, 2005; Storey, 2002).”
Informality and Formality in Medium-Sized Companies: Contestation and Synchronization (2010, neutral): “Smaller firms, as we noted at the outset, are a popular empirical site for researchers to explore formality and informality in managerial practice (see, for Q8 example, de Kok, Uhlaner and Thurik, 2006; Golhar and Deshpande, 1997; Kotey and Slade, 2005).”
How do micro-firms manage coopetition? A study of the wine sector in France (2018, background): “Human resource management practices, development and training are mostly informal (Kotey and Folker, 2007; Kotey and Slade, 2005).”