Mirada a las prácticas de gestión de recursos humanos en Ecuador

Abstract

Human resource management practices have spread to all countries of the world, at least in discourse, and are taken into account for the training of managers of business management processes, although their implementation is not always consistent with the theory that supports it, especially in small and medium-sized companies that are representative of the region. This article aims to characterize the practices of human resource management in different organizational contexts in Ecuador, for which the business database published by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Ecuador was analyzed, where 3,723 companies are registered. The results found show that small and medium-sized companies do not develop most of the processes related to human resources management under the same conditions and with the same characteristics as proposed by traditional models. It is concluded that the practices applied in the matter of human resources management respond more to the intention of complying with norms and laws that govern business conduct than to the recognition of the need, importance or benefit that could be derived from the systematic and intentional application. of the postulates of this.