If you have been with a fast growing start up, boutique specialty set ups or small divisions of larger enterprises these problems would look familiar terrain to you.
Until recently emerging HR practices largely ignored the small and medium business (SMB) challenges. Are they more complex than large enterprise issues Probably, No. Are they easier to address? No again.
What makes it interesting?
-> Time is of more essence in the SMB world it means direct impact on revenue and often times survival
-> There are several multi tasking individuals and teams impact of a problem is typically multi dimensional
-> Presuming that there is growth, almost everybody is busy with daily deliverance there is typically no one focusing on beyond mid term HR management planning
-> Good SMB HR will be tightly embedded small members who could be vital links of the deliverance chain.
-> Budgets are of course limited.
-> Dirt swept under the carpet is most likely to show up often there are no carpets (hiding places)
-> Pace of change is fast customer collaboration is lot more transparent (you cannot hide HR dirt)
-> Relative old...