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dc.contributor.authorWapshott, R.
dc.contributor.authorMallett, O.
dc.contributor.authorSpicer, David P.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-06T14:51:05Z
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-14T10:52:29Z
dc.date.available2020-05-06T14:51:05Z
dc.date.available2020-05-14T10:52:29Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationWapshott R, Mallett O and Spicer D (2014) Exploring change in small firms' HRM practices. In: Work Organization and Human Resource Management. Management and Industrial Engineering. London : Springer.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10454/17815
dc.descriptionYes
dc.description.abstractThe academic literature widely acknowledges changes and variation in the practices of small firms but only a small amount of empirical work has explored the processes through which HRM practices undergo change. Research has tended, instead, to examine the presence and effectiveness of HRM in small firms and has often viewed this in terms of a deficit model relating such practices to an understanding of HRM derived from larger firms. This chapter focuses on the recruitment and selection and staff payment practices in use in three small services firms to explore the everyday, ongoing detail of their HRM processes and practices. Identifying the different processes through which recruitment and selection and staff payment practices changed in the participant firms provides a base for discussing persistent forms of informality and the lack of stability that reflects the everyday realities of the firms, not only in contrast to their formalized policies but in engagement with them. This chapter advances understanding of selected HRM practices in small services firms after periods of formalization and adoption of HRM policies and practices. The chapter also discusses how developing knowledge of small firms’ HRM practices in this way has implications for researchers and practitioners.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rights© 2014 Springer. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06376-8_5en
dc.subjectSmall firms
dc.subjectHuman Resource Management (HRM)
dc.subjectEmployment relationship
dc.subjectOwner manager
dc.subjectRecruitment
dc.subjectPay
dc.subjectInformality
dc.subjectServices
dc.titleExploring change in small firms' HRM practicesen_US
dc.status.refereedYes
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.versionAccepted manuscript
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06376-8_5
dc.date.updated2020-05-06T13:51:07Z
refterms.dateFOA2020-05-14T14:15:31Z
dc.openaccess.statusopenAccess


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