Human Resource Management in Micro and Small Enterprises in the National Capital Region
46 Pages Posted: 2 Jan 2016
Date Written: December 31, 2014
Abstract
We investigate into some of the aspects related to Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). The analysis is based on the sample data from the National Capital Region, India. Issues such as (1) whether MSEs managed by proprietor or proprietor-family make less use of HRM practices, (2) whether adoption of HRM practices affect turn-over rate of employees, (3) whether size of work force (employees) and adoption of HRM practices are correlated, (4) whether size of work force (employees) and training imparted to the employees are related, (5) what are the determinants of the rate of turn-over of employees, (6) are the recruitment and selection processes of employees in MSEs well-structured, (7) whether export-based firms provide more training and benefits to the employees, (8) what determines adoption of HRM practices in relation to work performance of employees, (9) absenteeism among the employees and measures adopted by enterprises to reduce absenteeism, (10) wh small MSEs associated with larger firm apply more HRM practices than large enterprises lacking such an association, (11) determinants of innovativeness of MSEs and HRM practices, (12) whether Small MSEs with a growth strategy apply more high performance HRM practices than those small companies without a growth strategy, etc have been investigated.
Keywords: micro and small enterprises, national capital region, human resource management, family-based financing and management, qualitative variables, regression analysis, India
JEL Classification: L60, L70, L80, N85, R30
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