GAGE University College

MBA Program
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Article review on
EFFECTS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON
ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF SMALL-SCALE
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES IN AKAKI SUB CITY, ADDIS ABABA
Article title: - EFFCTS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE
Authors: Mesfin:- Lemma(ph.d) and Getachew
Gebreyes(MBA0
Submitted to……………………………………………………..
Reviewed by:
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Addis ababa,Ethiopia JANUARY 06, 2020

1.Research Title and Reporting Format
The research title called Made in Ethiopia- EFFCTS OF HUMAN RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF
SMALL-SCALE BUSINESS ENTERPRISES IN AKAKI SUB CITY ADMINISTRATION, will
be reviewed in this article review.
The research has basic components such as abstract, Scope, objectives,
Clarification of Key Concepts, literature review, methodology, data analysis,
findings, conclusion and recommendations and each of the research structure is
organized in line with the research title.
Generally, the paper is well organized and follow all the researcher strategies and
used every data collecting methodology with in reliability and validity of
instrument chalking parameters.
It gives brief and detail arguments on the sectors and put conclusion and
recommendation with reasonable data collecting and changes it in to analyzing
and also used all the theories and finding parameters and discussed in the paper

2.Problem Statement and objectives

The authors sufficiently articulate their research objectives relative to the study
context and the research problem. The study’s title emphasizes the research
direction, while the hypothesis justifies investigating the problems. In the article,
the research aims to examine or assess the effect of human resource
management practice on organizational performance by attempted the four
hypotheses:
1: Employee recruitment and selection practice has significant effect on
performance of small-scale business organizations.
2: Employee incentive practice has significant effect on performance of small-
scale business organizations.
3: Employee training and development practice has significant effect on
performance of small-scale business organizations.
4: Employee performance appraisal practice has significant effect on performance
of small-scale business organizations.
In the article, the research aims to etamine how small-Scale organizations affect
by poor HRM practices and systems in their organization. The study’s aim to
contribute of its findings to Small Scale business organization using Effective
HRM practices in their business does indeed have a major effect towards to
improve their organizations by effective recruitment and selection, selecting the
right quality and quantity of people, developing the knowledge, skills and
employees, with in organization.
The authors have failed to give a brief definition about Micro and Small
Enterprises or Small-scale business organization. It widely defines about human
resource management and simple revising about MSE and categorized by their
capitals and the writers also take more time to touched the research problems.

It is good if the writers clearly define about micro and small enterprises and
categorized also by their human resource establishment and shortly assessing
about HRM and clearly state the topics and tries to touched the research topics.

3.Rsearche Method
The researchers’ study design reflects an advantageous element in its
measurement adequacy. The study revealed that HRM practice has significant
effect on the performance of small-scale business enterprises. The hypothesis
testing result indicated that the HRM practice components (recruitment and
selection, incentives, training and development practices and performance
appraisal practices) have significant effect on the performance of small-scale
enterprises. The writers recommended that the management of respective small-
scale business enterprises should be able to increase the businesses’ performance
by establishing effective human resource management practices.
To address this argument, they examined or used explanatory methods by lottery
sampling technique by selecting sampling to get proportional number of samples
from the study area by using both primary and secondary data collection and by
conducting data the paper gives a good conclusion and recommendation and put
the findings Suggestions for the future Research.
However, the research has some sampling limitations. Primarily, the
researchers utilized only 44 employees and 6 managers from total number of 194
small scale enterprises and only 2 weredas for their data collection and analysis.
While this number could be sufficient for qualitative study, the quantitative
design would require a large number of sampling.
A small sample size exacerbates the risk of errors in the eventual findings
emanating from the utilization of an atypical sample. The researchers failed to
elaborate on the sampling process. The study has about 194 small scale
enterprises at least 1 enterprise have 3 people in their firms so 194 enterprises
has about 582 people in the entire population, which could have justified a census
approach to participant idenetifiaction.so the study’s sampling strategy may be
insufficient to meet the research objectives.

4.Finding and Conclusions

The study findings are consistent with the mythology and adequately address the
initial aims and hypothesis. The research effectively presents the out comes as a
direct representation of the investigative process’s address of the contextual
challenge. The researchers establish that small scale business enterprises fail to
meet their goals by ineffective HRM practices and systems in the enterprises. The
initial hypothesis shows that bundles of HRM practices mainly recruitment and
selection, training and development, performance appraisal and compensation
package are positive effect on the performances of small-scale business
enterprises. The findings adequately addressed the hypothesis’s components and
the result shows that there is significant relationship between independent
(recruitment and selection, training and development, performance and
compensation package are positive effect on the performances of small-scale
business enterprises. Therefore, the study fulfills its investigative role within the
scholarly and give good ways for organizations how can use effectively their
human resources.
Lesson learnt from the article
-understand how research papers organized and developed
-by collecting data and the way change it into analyzing data
-How coordinating the theories and used it for paper preparation
-understand all the management scopes and leadership styles and theories
-improve communication skills and organizing different data from written papers
-understand the ways how can give conclusion and recommendation for the
findings