Human resource management practices and firm performance in small businesses:a look at differences across industries

As noted in our previous reports, we are finding that human resource (HR) management practices and beliefs play an important role in small businesses. For example, in our second report we found that certain sets of HR practices were positively related to workforce alignment and resulting firm performance. In our third report, we found that effective HR management practices were positively related to important employee outcomes such as higher commitment.

Also noted, trust in management, cooperation and higher employee effort and involvement in their jobs.

In our fourth report, we found that particular HR best practices were related to one-year revenue ... read more