Procesos de atracción de personal en empresas familiares y no familiares ecuatorianas

The ownership-family-company relationship present in family businesses generates a complexity of bonds, emotions and feelings that create a labor dynamic based on aspects different from those developed in other types of companies. The objective of the article is to compare the practices of personnel attraction, specifically the processes of planning, selection and recruitment of personnel, carried out by family and non-family businesses located in Manabí-Ecuador. It is a comparative research with a field, non-experimental and cross-sectional design. The population consisted of companies located in Manabí-Ecuador, registered in the official database issued by the Internal Revenue Service, from which a probabilistic sample of 278 companies was extracted. The results show that family and non-family firms present statistically significant differences in their personnel attraction practices related to planning, recruitment and selection. It is concluded that the presence of family members as employees and/or managers blurs business and family relationships, increases complexity and introduces mechanisms of discretionality in their processes of attracting personnel, so that they need more professionalized processes that allow them to make efficient use of their human resources.