Growing Pains: Managing the Employment Relationship in Medium-Sized Enterprises

Abstract

Since the early 1990s, growing attention has been afforded to employment relations in smaller firms.Generally, such organisations are more likely to adopt an informal approach to labour management facilitated by the proximity between employers and employees, idiosyncratic intervention by firms owners and a reluctance to employ professional HR managers.However, as firms grow, this approach is difficult to sustain as the employment relationship becomes increasingly intricate.This paper explores the management of employment relations within growing firms.Using a qualitative approach to explore how change is managed as firms become more complex, owners, Chief Executives, managers, HR managers and employees from six medium sized firms have been interviewed at length to ascertain their experiences and views upon this process.

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