ENHANCING HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES IN SMALL STARTUP COMPANIES: AN EMPLOYEE’S PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Human Resource Management (HRM) is important for any types of organization without considering its size and capacity. Thus, this work has analyzed HRM ability domain practices in small medium enterprises at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The work focused on analyzing employee’s perceptions on the recruitment and selection practices, and also training and development. This work was based on quantitative method. The sample size of this work was 34 respondents working in a small medium enterprise in Jeddah. Questionnaire was designed and used as data collection medium.  Based on the recruitment and selection factor, the result of this work showed that employees are satisfied with the policy their institution offers for the hiring and selection policies. In addition, there is a considerable importance placed on the hiring process by their institution. As for training and development, the findings showed that the majority agreed that institution offers opportunities for training and development. Overall, the employee agrees that decent HRM practice exist in their institution.