Identifying the factors affecting human resources management in small and medium sized enterprises

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Associate Professor, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran

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The main objective of this study was to identify the factors affecting human resources management in small and medium-sized enterprises. The statistical population of the study consisted of agricultural small and medium enterprise executives in Zanjan Province (N=560) out of whom 196 executives were taken as sample, using Cochran’s Formula and Proportionate Stratified Sampling Technique. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by a panel of experts' judgment. In order to assess the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach’s Alpha coefficients were calculated for the main scales of the questionnaire (0.85). The collected data was analyzed by the SPSS (19) and LISREL software (8.5). To identify the factors affecting human resources management, exploratory factor analysis was used, and in order to investigate the fitting indexes of research model, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equations modeling were used. The results showed that affecting factors are formed by six factors including infrastructure, support, management, information technology, incentive as well as policy factors educational factors. In total, these factors explain about 10/67% of the total variance of the affecting factors

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