Managing human resources in small organizations: What do we know?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the perceptions about the use of HRIS as there is currently very little knowledge about it in “medium sized organizations” and conclude that use of e-tools in medium sized organizations is perceived as useful, whereas not easy to use.

TL;DR: In this paper, a revue de la litterature scientifique concernant the gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) dans les PME is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the link between the recruitment and selection practices of owners and employees' perceptions and attachment to the firm and predicted that owners' conscientiousness and openness to experience would affect their choice of hiring practices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the management of maternity leave in small firms and particularly explore the perceived costs and benefits of paid maternity leave (PML) in Australia, where most private sector female employees only have access to 12 months unpaid maternity leave.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the relation between the exploration of new possibilities and the exploitation of old certainties in organizational learning and examine some complications in allocating resources between the two, particularly those introduced by the distribution of costs and benefits across time and space.

TL;DR: This article synthesize the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy, highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional approaches, and identify three primary forms of legitimacy: pragmatic, based on audience self-interest; moral, based upon normative approval; and cognitive, according to comprehensibility and taken-for-grantedness.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider structural inertia in organizational populations as an outcome of an ecological-evolutionary process and define structural inertia as a correspondence between a class of organizations and their environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, a population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant adaptation perspective, based on the strength of inertial pressures on organizational str...