Annotated Bibliography on Employee Training in Small Buisness
Panagiotakopoulos, A. (2012). Staff “poaching” in the small business context: overcoming this key barrier to training. Industrial and Commercial Training, 44(6), 326-333. DOI 10.1108/00197851211254752
The researcher has used a case study approach to achieve the objectives of the research, and used both secondary data such as company reports, records, etc. and in depth interview to gather firsthand information from the employees of two organizations. Other than salary, the factors such as job autonomy, involvement in decision making, intense work environment and cordial working atmosphere motivate the employees and gain their loyalty to the organization. There is limited scope for generalizing the study for the want of sufficient data.
Kock, H., & Ellström, P. E. (2011). Formal and integrated strategies for competence development in SMEs, Journal of European Industrial Training, 35(1), 71-88. DOI 10.1108/03090591111095745
The Swedish researchers explored the relationship between the learning and workplace environment. They were interested to know how workplace learning arrangements contributed to the learning of the employees in formal and structured ways. The data required for the study was collected using questionnaires, interviews and documents available in the respective Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). The article proposed a classification of the workplace environment as enabling and constraining, and the study identified that formal and integrated strategy for learning promoted learning among employees in an enabling environment, same time constricted learning in the constraining environment.
Though the authors have achieved their research objective, they point out that there is no sufficient theoretical basis for the distinctions between formal and integrated learning strategies. Indirectly, the study opens up possibilities for new styles of on the job training.
Warren, D. E., Gaspar, J. P., & Laufer, W. S. (2014). Is Formal Ethics Training Merely Cosmetic?. Business Ethics Quarterly, 24(1), 85-117.
