Organisational learning and HRD: how appropriate are they for small firms?

Saru, Essi

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“…Also, 20% of all units exported by South Africa are produced by small and medium-sized enterprises. It is impossible to grow the South African national economy on a sustainable basis without simultaneously achieving sustained growth and development in small and mediumsized enterprises [5]. Swanson [6] has reported that realizing sustained growth and development in small and medium-sized enterprises is a critical requirement for achieving sustained growth and development at the national level.…”

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Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

Worku¹

2013

JDAIP

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The paper is based on a 5-year follow-up study (2007 to 2012) of a random sample of 349 small business enterprises that operate in and around the city of Pretoria in South Africa. Data were gathered from each of the businesses on socioeconomic factors that were known to affect the long-term survival of small businesses. The objective of the study was to identify and quantify key predictors of viability and long-term survival. Pearson's chi-square tests of associations, binary logistic regression analysis and the Cox Proportional Hazards Model were used for screening of variables, and for estimating odds ratios and hazard ratios of key predictors of viability and long-term survival. The study found that 188 of the 349 businesses that took part in the study (54%) were not viable, and that the long-term survival and viability of small businesses were adversely affected by lack of entrepreneurial skills, lack of supervisory support to newly established businesses, and inability to operators running newly established businesses to acquire relevant vocational skills.

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Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

Worku¹

2013

JDAIP

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“…However, HRD in small organization failed to realize the importance for organizational learning. According to Essi Saru (2007) argued HRD and organizational learning issues form the perspective of small firms. In this study, it argued that learning is about developing the organization or its individual, and therefore it is closely connected to the HRD processes.…”

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The Background and Challenges Faced by the Small Medium Enterprises. A Human Resource Development Perspective

Omar

Arokiasamy

Ismail

2009

IJBM

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In the recent years, a number of emerging issues are posing serious challenges to the small and medium sized enterprises (SME's) in Malaysia. Hence, these enterprises enter the new era, dramatic challenges begun such as establishing new enterprises, globalization, financial constraints, high turnover, low motivation among employees, lack of human capital building, and more challenges ahead. Thus understanding the problems and challenges are fundamental solutions to expand and strategize SME's to future progress and grows. Therefore this article examines the background and challenges face by SME's which play a vital role in the nation growth. The uniqueness of this paper is the emphasis on the human resource development perspective which is important for SME's to progress and be competitive. Finally, this article maps out how future research can be more sensitive to how SME's actually develop their own human resource development for future development.

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“…However, for SMEs which often rely on informal learning (e.g. Mazzarol, 2003;Ellinger and Cseh, 2007;Saru, 2007;Marsick, 2009), their learning practices -whether they develop with growth or not -are still under-researched. Among very few previous studies, Rutherford et al (2003), Jones's (2004), and Kotey and Sheridan's (2004) may be the closest references, which compare human resource management (HRM) practices (including training) in SMEs between growth stages.…”

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Redesigning Independent Community Empowerment Model For Household Craftsmen

Utomo¹,

Hamdani²,

Riyanto³

et al. 2017

SMBR

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Redesigning the model of independent community empowerment program can be performed by (1) reviewing the factors to develop independent empowerment for household craftsmen in Surakarta, (2) identifying various government policy that support the development of household craftsmen's independency in Surakarta, and (3) formulate the redesigned model of independent community empowerment for household craftsmen in Surakarta. The subject of this study is household craftsmen in Surakarta, Central Java Province. This study is a research and development type, started with survey and need assessment for developing craftsmen's independency in entrepreneurship based on community's characters and values, media to implement the proposed model, action, and evaluation. This study will be conducted in Banjarsari sub-district in Surakarta municipality. Observation, interview, demonstration, and simulation will be employed in this study to collect the data. The data will be analyzed using mixed technique between descriptive and quantitative technique. Through FGD we will formulate the concept of redesigned model for developing independent community empowerment for household craftsmen. In this study we have collected the data on the potency of studied area; the data on the (2) the data on the number of prevalent entrepreneurs, (3) performing need assessment of household craftsmen in Surakarta, which will enable us to formulate the redesigned model of independent community empowerment for household craftsmen. The final aim of this study is applying the redesigned model of independent community empowerment for household craftsmen in order to achieve entrepreneurs' business independency.

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Organisational learning and HRD: how appropriate are they for small firms?

Cited by 53 publications

References 54 publications

Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

Analysis of Factors That Affect the Long-Term Survival of Small Businesses in Pretoria, South Africa

The Background and Challenges Faced by the Small Medium Enterprises. A Human Resource Development Perspective

Redesigning Independent Community Empowerment Model For Household Craftsmen

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