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Emerald Article: Recruitment in small firms: Processes, methods and problems Marilyn Carroll, Mick Marchington, Jill Earnshaw, Stephen Taylor

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To cite this document: Marilyn Carroll, Mick Marchington, Jill Earnshaw, Stephen Taylor, (1999),"Recruitment in small firms:
Processes, methods and problems", Employee Relations, Vol. 21 Iss: 3 pp. 236 - 250
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Recruitment in small firms
Processes, methods and problems
Marilyn Carroll, Mick Marchington, Jill Earnshaw

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Manchester School of Management, UMIST, Manchester, UK, and

Stephen Taylor

Manchester

Citations: specifically for small firms. As Hendry et al. (1995, p. 14) note, ``training and human resource management advice to smaller firms has been monotonous in Research by Earnshaw et al. (1998) indicates that poor recruitment and selection decisions are often blamed for subsequent disciplinary problems in Vol. 21 No. 3, 1999, pp. 236-250. # MCB University Press, 0142-5455 The authors are grateful to the European Regional Development Fund, which financed this specification. Torrington et al. (1991) suggest that in a small organisation it may be sufficient for one person to consider ``the job 's important aspects and