HRM-konsulters arbete mot SME-företag : En studie kring HRM-konsulters affärmöjligheter i SME-företag

Sammanfattning: Human Resource Management (HRM) consultants are becoming more common. Simultaneously there is a lack of HRM in small and medium enterprises (SME’s). SME’s states neither to afford, nor have the time to perform HRM in their business. This thesis is a Working Scholarly essay based on qualitative method, based on ten semi- structured interviews. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether external HRM consultants can help SME’s with their HRM work. The questions to be answered are: - What business opportunities there are for HRM consultants to work with SME’s? - What obstacles HRM consultants working towards SME’s face in the market? The survey was conducted using a “data triangulation” of three different target groups where all participants originated from different companies. Interviews were performed on ten people with knowledge of HRM. Five of those interviewed with specific knowledge of HRM consultants working towards SMEs. The interviews were analysed by categorizing and placed into a SWOT analysis to identify the HRM consultants' business opportunities in relation to SME’s. The study's results showed that the HRM consultants have good business opportunities to work towards SME’s but there also exist some obstacles and threats.