People problems are the biggest headaches of ALL businesses - both large and small. However, people issues can be a more deadly problem for small businesses, since each employee represents a large portion of the business owner's personal work force.

This section of the website addresses ideas on hiring, evaluating and firing employees to minimize the cost of bad hires, and to let you know of government restrictions on managing your employees. We also cover typical fringe benefits some small businesses offer. While most small business owners have trouble affording fringe benefits, they can help retain good employees.

Family issues are inevitable in a small business, since the business owner cannot help but "live" the business all the time. We cover hiring of children, spouse and relatives. There are also a couple comments on dealing with partners.

For your convenience, we have divided the personnel topic into several areas of interest to small business owners. Just click on the topic below to jump to it.