Learning and Training: Enhancing Small Business Success.

Autor/inn/en	Kilpatrick, Sue; Crowley, Suzanne
Institution	National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia).
Titel	Learning and Training: Enhancing Small Business Success.
Quelle	(1999), (111 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-87397-572-3
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; Change Strategies; Education Work Relationship; Educational Attainment; Educational Attitudes; Educational Change; Educational Needs; Educational Policy; Educational Quality; Foreign Countries; Job Training; National Surveys; Needs Assessment; Organizational Climate; Outcomes of Education; Participation; Policy Formation; Postsecondary Education; Public Policy; Questionnaires; Small Businesses; Success; Tables (Data); Training Methods; Training Objectives; Vocational Education; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lösungsstrategie; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungsreform; Educational need; Bildungsbedarf; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Ausland; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Bedarfsermittlung; Organisationsklima; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Teilnahme; Politische Betätigung; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung; Öffentliche Ordnung; Fragebogen; Kleingewerbe; Erfolg; Tabelle; Didaktik; Trainingsmaßnahme; Training objectiv; Ausbildungsziel; Trainingsziel; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Australien
Abstract	Owners or managers of 181 Australian businesses employing fewer than 20 people in the construction, manufacturing, property and business services, and retail industries in 3 metropolitan and 3 nonmetropolitan locations were interviewed by telephone to identify how they used training to enhance their small business's success. Of those surveyed, one-third had had someone attend a relevant course in the past 12 months, 30% had learned from a consultant or mentor, and more than 60% had attended a business-related meeting or seminar. Small businesses with partners or employees with postschool qualifications were more likely to engaging in ongoing learning activities. The low rate of participation in training, especially by owners, and their preference for informal learning methods are consistent with a picture of small business owners who are supervisors of more formalized training and unaware that training policy could be relevant. The study demonstrated a relationship between success and learning on the job and resulted in 11 recommendations concerning developing a learning culture, learning and training design, and future policy directions relating to the provision of learning/training opportunities for small business. (The report contains 58 references and 13 tables/figures. Appendixes constituting approximately 30% of this document contain the following: 72 additional tables; discussion of the relationship between training and small business; small business training questionnaire; location selection data; and list of reference group members.) (MN)
Anmerkungen	National Centre for Vocational Education Research, 252 Kensington Road, Leabrook, South Australia 5068, Australia. e-mail: ncver@ncver.edu.au; Web site: http://www.ncver.edu.au/.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC