Specificity of Personnel Management in Small Business

The expediency of a deeper investigation of the specifics of personnel management directly in small business is substantiated. The factors influencing the level of personnel management effectiveness are determined and analyzed. These included the size of the company, the level of professional competence of staff and the availability of talents, the degree of staff loyalty to management and the company as a whole, the effectiveness of the incentive system and the availability of its own staff development base. The main stages of the process of personnel management in a small enterprise have been singled out: recruitment and selection of personnel, staff adaptation, personnel assessment, training and development of personnel, incentives and motivation of personnel, personnel management. The specifics of implementation of each stage of the personnel management process at small enterprises are substantiated and specified. For each stage, possible positive and negative consequences are identified, the appearance of which is connected with the peculiarities of the functioning of small enterprises. The main motivating factors that arise when employing workers at small enterprises are substantiated. The peculiarities of personnel management of a small enterprise are singled out, the main of which were defined: flexible labor organization, high professional competence and polyvalence of personnel and increased requirements to the professional and personal qualities of the employee. Recommendations are proposed to improve the effectiveness of each stage of personnel management in small businesses.