Overview
- Advances the understanding of challenges in Human Resources in the small firm context
- Pushes forward new research agendas and approaches to accommodating HRM in SMEs
- Moves beyond traditional debates about HR practices and an exclusive focus on performance
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About this book
SMEs face unique challenges directly stemming from their size, which create
pressures, tensions and dilemmas with regard to people management. These
include the liabilities of smallness and newness, as well as resource challenges
pertaining to the attraction, development and retention of the workforce. In turn,
these challenges can give rise to unique HR dynamics in the SME setting. This
edited collection brings together insights from thought leaders in the field of
HRM in SMEs to consider how the interplay of a range of external and internal
factors coalesce to shape the nature, form and meaning of HRM in this setting.
This volume moves beyond traditional accounts which are organised by HR
function or practice area (e.g. recruitment, performance, training) or by
considerations of the applicability of HR (e.g. HR and performance, best practice).
Instead, the contributions are divided in two sections, HR Challenges and HR
Dynamics, demonstrating how the unique setting of the SME must inform any
successful HRM intervention. This volume will be of great interest to students and academics ofHR, employment relations and entrepreneurship, as well as those exploring
professional qualifications.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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HR Challenges
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Front Matter
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HR Dynamics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ciara Nolan is a Lecturer in Management at Technological University Dublin, City Campus. Her research interests focus on the dynamics of managing and develo** people in small firms, with a particular focus on professional service firms and the hospitality industry.
Brian Harney is a Professor of Strategy and HRM at Dublin City University Business School. Brian’s research focuses on the intersection of Strategy and HRM, with a particular focus on SMEs, growth and knowledge-intensive sectors.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reframing HRM in SMEs
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Dynamics
Editors: Ciara Nolan, Brian Harney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34279-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34278-3Published: 02 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34281-3Due: 04 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34279-0Published: 01 February 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 257
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Resource Management, Small Business, Entrepreneurship