The success of the organization is based on the quality of human resources, their competencies, motivation, loyalty, and their business results. The basic aim of this research is to determine whether and to what extent human resources competency management influences the business success of...

The training and human resource management (HRM)needs of owner-managers and their workers is a much-neglected area of smallbusiness research.In this study undertaken between 1998 and 2000, anexploratory telephone survey of 6,000 randomly selected small businesses inGreat Britain was...

SMEs are the backbone of the European economy, but in regional and local labour market monitoring approaches their specificities are not yet well considered. As SMEs have to compete with larger companies for human resources, they develop creative strategies for recruiting and retaining...