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The Determinants of Management Training in Small Firms in the UK: What role does strategy play?
No full textIt is agreed that within the UK there is a poor level of investment in formal training and development. This is particularly evident within the small firm sector. The literature, which considers this issue, concludes that there are a number of reasons why small firm owners are, on the whole, reluctant to invest in such training for themselves and their employees. Such reasons include, ignorance of benefits, time issues, fear that training will enhance employee mobility and, critically, that there is little evidence to indicate that investment in training and development leads to enhanced firm performance. On the basis that there has been some debate and empirical investigation regarding why training does not take place, this paper takes an alternative stance and considers what issues and processes might underpin the decision to invest in training - particularly management training. Findings are drawn from empirical research on a sample of firms where investment had been made in such training in the last 24 months; the indications being that such investment was not strategic or proactive but prompted by problems which threatened business performance
Researching the drivers of SME environmental behaviour: a study of the UK screen-printing sector
No full textUK business and environmental strategy: a survey and analysis of east midlands firms' approaches to environmental audit
No full textUses a questionnaire survey of firms in the East Midlands region of England to examine business attitudes towards environmental protection and the most effective means of motivating firms to be more environmentally responsible; indicates that over one-third of the 129 responding firms use environmental audits (though on further examination this is revealed to be only 12%). Finds that larger firms tend to use environmental audits/reviews, with the energy sector the most prominent; suggests that the smaller the firm, the lower the perception of the effects of environmental legislation, and that the greatest motivation for conducting audits/reviews comes from a single manager's initiative (far more so than legal requirement). Identifies why firms do not use reviews and what the main benefits of doing so are, e.g. improved image; implies that legislation does not promote the benefits to businesses and that advisory action by public agencies may be more appropriat
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