×
Home Current Archive Editorial board
Contact
Review article

Recruitment and selection of human resources and organizational creativity in small and medium-sized enterprises

By
Iva Klepić ,
Mirela Mabić ,
Mirela Mabić
Danijela Madžar
Danijela Madžar

Abstract

In modern business conditions, human resources have become the most important resource of enterprises, and many authors point out that this is especially true for SMEs, in which, due to their specificity, human resources create a competitive advantage of the company and affect its survival and development. SMEs are faced with a strong, global competition of large enterprises and in order to survive and grow in the market, they must find specific strengths within themselves, develop and use them. Creativity is one of the most powerful tools that enable SMEs competitiveness, survival and development in the market. The basic objective of this research is to determine whether there is a correlation between recruitment and selection of human resources and organizational creativity in SMEs. The survey was conducted in SMEs in the Federation of B&H in 2019. An original questionnaire was created for the research, which collected the opinion of top managers on the recruitment and selection of human resources and organizational creativity in small and medium-sized enterprises. Data have been analysed using IBM SPSS Statistic 25.0. From the statistical procedures, the following were used: Shapiro-Wilk's test, Pearson's coefficient of correlation, Mann-Whitney U test and t-test for independent samples. The results of the survey showed that there is a correlation between the recruitment and selection of human resources and organizational creativity in SMEs and that there are differences in the correlation between the recruitment and selection of human resources and organizational creativity in the enterprises in terms of their size.

References

1.
Shalley CE, Gilson LL. What leaders need to know: A review of social and contextual factors that can foster or hinder creativity. The Leadership Quarterly. 2004;15(1):33–53.
2.
Kotey B, Sheridan A. Gender and the practice of HRM in small business. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources. 2001;39(3):23–40.
3.
Lesko Bošnjak L, Klepić Z. Osnove menadžmenta ljudskih potencijala. 2013.
4.
Livingstone LP, Nelson DL, Barr SH. Person-environment fit and creativity: An examination of supply-value and demand-value ability versions of fit. Journal of Management. 1997;23:119–46.
5.
Michaels E, Handfield-Jones H, Axelrod Michaels B. The war for talent. 2001.

Citation

This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 

Article metrics

Google scholar: See link

Citations

Crossref Logo

4

Crossref Logo

Farhan Mehboob, Raheela Haque

(2024)

Role of human resource practices and job crafting in fostering innovative work behavior: An interaction and resource reinvestment perspective

European Review of Applied Psychology, 74(5)

10.1016/j.erap.2023.100938

Crossref Logo

Iva Klepić

(2021)

Correlation Between Training and Education of Human Resources and Business Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises

Naše gospodarstvo/Our economy, 67(3)

10.2478/ngoe-2021-0013

Crossref Logo

David Gordon, Peter Stokes, Martin Beckinsale

(2023)

Managing post-Brexit/post-Covid extremes in SME businesses – A novel role for curriculum co-creation between SMEs and business schools

Question(s) de management, n° 45(4)

10.3917/e.qdm.225.0151

Crossref Logo

Chengbo Wang, Xiaomei Li, Hong Su, Ying Tian

(2021)

Knowledge utilisation in Chinese medium-sized manufacturing firms – an exploration under the backcloth of quality improvement

Journal of Knowledge Management, 25(10)

10.1108/JKM-07-2020-0495

The statements, opinions and data contained in the journal are solely those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editor(s). We stay neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.