Pertemps retains a family feel despite a decade of expansion: Small‐company mentality helps to drive the business forward
Human Resource Management International Digest
ISSN: 0967-0734
Article publication date: 24 August 2012
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to describe how UK recruitment company Pertemps has retained its small‐company mentality despite ten years of growth which have seen its employee numbers rise to more than 1,000.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper explains how the company prides itself on having a business strategy shaped by opinion and feedback from employees, as well as having staff as shareholders, to maintain the strong family values on which it was built.
Findings
The paper details the effects of this company ethos on employee involvement, internal communications, training and development and the ways in which employees are rewarded.
Practical implications
The paper reveals that Pertemps was thirty‐second in the 2012 Sunday Times list of the top 100 employers and was named a top employer by the Corporate Research Foundation (CRF).
Social implications
The paper highlights the significant advantages that flow from having employees who share in the ownership of the company.
Originality/value
The paper explains how a growing company can benefit from retaining the “feel” of a family business.
Keywords
Citation
(2012), "Pertemps retains a family feel despite a decade of expansion: Small‐company mentality helps to drive the business forward", Human Resource Management International Digest, Vol. 20 No. 6, pp. 16-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/09670731211260825
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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