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R>1.2 Intern Company and Problems
I work in the human resource management department of Ken Bang Business Investigation Company during the period of internship. Founded in 1998 , the headquarter of Ken Bang is located in Beijing City of China and the company has many branches in main big cities of China such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen etc. The main business of Ken Bang is to provide business investigation in many different fields. The business services provided by the company include investigation of business credit, investigate of enterprise credit, the prospects analysis of market investment, the control and management of enterprise crisis, investigation and agency of intellectual property rights, marketing products and services of database, market investigation and investigation and take evidence and so on. The organizational structure of the company includes business departments including the different kinds of business departments and logistics departments of financial department, human resource management and computer and data centre.

This company is one of SMEs in China and has experienced rapid growth in the past ten years. After experiencing the earlier rapid development, Ken Bang is facing many problems of human resource management for the further development in the future. During the period of internship, I worked in the human resource management department of this company, and I investigated and knew some issues related to human resource management of SMEs in China through the channel of Ken Bang. The topic of my project is determined based on my experiences of internship in China. My experiences of internship in Ken Bang can help me better do my project and Ken Bang can be investigated as a case study in my project.

1.3 Research Aims and Objectives
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an increasingly important role in economic development of modern society, and much research has been done to focus on issues relating to SMEs. In China, SMEs has become an important part in national economy of China. In the past, China’s SMEs generally pay attention to business development and marketing, and neglect the importance of other aspects such as management . In recent years, China’s SMEs begin to realize the importance of management issues such as Human resource management (HRM) in the long-term development of the enterprise. So it is meaningful to investigate the practices of human resource management in SMEs of China.

The aim of the project is to investigate Human Resource Management Practices of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in China. Based on this research aim, there are four main research objectives in this research.
1) Review the relevant literature about human resource management practices in SMEs;
2) Investigate the status quo of human resource management in China’s SMEs;
3) Find out problems involved with the implementation and development of human resource management in China’s SMEs ;
4) Present suggestions that can be recommended for China’s SMEs to solve these problems relating to their HRM practices.

1.4 Methodological Approach and Tools
In this study, the research philosophy of interpretivist is adopted because the study carries out a case study to investigate the current HRM practices of SMEs in China and it is concerned with understanding behaviour from the participants’ own subjective ideas and opinions. According to Collis and Huss