Resumen de Human resources practices and firm performance: exploring the AMO model in Spanish SMEs
Gabriel Lozano Reina, Gregorio Sánchez Marín
Human resource management has traditionally focused on large companies. However, in recent years there is great interest in characterizing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), analyzing how human resources practices are implemented in them, and verifying the impact of such practices on business performance. In this way, using a sample of 1136 Spanish SMEs, our aim is to verify how human resources practices are implemented in this context and, in particular, to explore the orientation of these policies to the AMO model (ability, motivation, opportunity). Our results show that firm seniority, the nature of corporate control and the education level of manager are the contingent factors that have greater impact on the development of human resources practices. In addition, firms have higher performance when their human resources practices are oriented to the AMO model
