Few things are relatively understood concerning the needs and practices of small companies –
related to HR. In particular, the impact of human resources practices upon the small companies
has not been studied so much. This field of interest is a sort of „terra incognita”9 . Since it was
noticed that for big companies the HRM impact upon the performance is a positive one a much
higher number of authors have underlined the need for similar researches for SME. The existent
researches focus upon the managers’ perception on the importance and/or the success of HR
practices10. The main conclusions suggest that the enterprisers /managers acknowledge the
necessity of HR practices for reaching the objectives. However, translating the theory into
practice can cause many problems. Many authors have studied the connection between HRM
and performance empirically.