Administración de recursos humanos: Factor estratégico de productividad empresarial en pymes de Barranquilla

Today’s companies prioritize the administration of their humane capital to obtain advantages over their competitors, regardless of whether they are large companies or SMEs. THe purpose of this article is to explore, from a documentary perspective, the relationship between human capital and productivity in SMEs. As an input, we will review the different stages of evolution in this process, as well as the elements that increase the potential for productivity. Likewise, we proceed to review the productive reality of industrial, commercial and service SMEs in Barranquilla; to this end, the report on the results of the first semester of 2016 of the Colombian Large Pyme Survey (ANIF, 2016a, 2016b) was taken as a reference. As findings, it was found that what is suggested in much of the theoretical inputs reviewed to invest in qualification to increase productivity goes in the same direction of the belief that small and medium entrepreneurs especially those of Barranquilla have, to do so to guarantee its sustainability. Finally, it is concluded that managing human capital well is key for productive development.