Chapter Four Results and Analysis
4.1 Introduction
The aim of this project is to investigate the human resource management practices of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in China. The research is mainly based on the primary research including interviews conducted with some SMEs in China and the direct observations of the researcher through the internship in a SME in Shanghai of China. This chapter is divided into two main sections. The first section is to present the results of research that includes two aspects. One is the interviews with directors or managers of ten SMEs in China. The results are summarized based on the questions designed in the last chapter during the process of interviews. The other is the observation of the researcher in one SME in China during the process of the internship. The second section is to analyze and discuss the findings of the research based on the research objectives that have been set up before the research. And the analysis of research findings is also related to the findings of the past studies that have been summarized in the chapter of
literature review.
4.2 Presentation of Results
Two parts of research results are included this section. One is the results obtained from the interviews that have been done in ten SMEs of China. The other is research results of observation of the researcher in one SME of China.
4.2.1 Results of Interviews
Due to the restraints of time and costs, ten small and medium seized enterprises are randomly chosen and included in the sample of the research in this study. The researcher conducted interviews directly with the directors of these ten small and medium sized enterprises in the sample. They take responsibility of the management and operation of the enterprise and are very familiar with the various aspects of the management of the enterprise. Based on the
notes that I take during the process of the interviews, the answers of these interviews toward interview questions are summarized in the following parts of this section.
Table 4.1 Summary of Answers of Questions 1-3
1) Do you think human resource management is important to the development of the enterprise?
Yes No No idea
3 (30%) 5 (50%) 2 (20%)
2) Does your company have set up the independent department of human resource management?
Yes No
4 (40%) 6 (60%)
3) What do you think of the current human resource management in China?
Very Effective Effective Not effective Poor
0 (0%) 1 (10%) 5 (50%) 4 (30%)
Answers of interview questions 1 to 3 are simply summarized in the table 4.1 above. As to the importance of human resource management to the development of the enterprise, only 3 of these ten interviewees thought that the human resource management is important to the development of the enterprise, and 50% of these interviewees supported the important role of the human resource management in the development of the enterprise. On the other hand, 2 of these interviewees in the research expressed that they have no idea about the importance of the human resource management to the development of the enterprise.
As to the question that whether the enterprise has set up the independent department of human resource management to take responsibility of the relevant affairs in human resource management, only 4 of 10 enterprises expressed that their enterprises have set up the independent department of human resource management, and other
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