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employment of marketing‐qualified graduates and devise strategies for improving the rate of graduate recruitment in the sector … from 260 SMEs and 130 graduates, was built upon focus group discussions and semi‐structured interviews, and selectively … demanded by SME owner‐managers versus those taught in typical marketing syllabuses. Graduates' frame of reference is the world …
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and to the utilization of graduates in particular. There was an apparent shift in the research agenda, towards graduate …
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means that graduates will make up a greater proportion of the labour market. To some extent, this applies to all businesses … proportion of graduates. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to help universities understand better what they could do to … both prepare their graduates for jobs in small firms and to help them communicate better with small firms. Design …
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raising competitiveness. However there is limited evidence of the contribution of training to the success of individual firms … and even less evidence of the impact of such training activity on small to medium‐sized enterprise (SME) employees. This … paper draws on a survey of 1,000 employees to investigate the impact of a training intervention on employees in SME …
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implications of the findings for policy‐makers responsible for training and trainers themselves. The evidence supports the view … that government subsidies focusing on language training might be better directed at a more varied range of activities to …
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on performance. Unlike previous published studies that concentrate on formal training, this empirical analysis includes … both formal and informal training. Performance is measured in terms of turnover, employee growth, and survival. It also … includes consideration of the firm's context on both training approach and performance. Design/methodology/approach – Survey …
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provide hope that training may be taken seriously in Britain, Many organizations’ competitiveness is seriously damaged by the … lack of training, even though many experts advocate comprehensive training to be the foundation on which essential … attitude to training has been short‐sighted and only a small percentage of firms have adopted a total quality management …
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Presents survey results of training for quality in manufacturing companies in Wales. Six geographical areas – Cardiff … show that companies are beginning to address training in quality requirements. The Wales Quality Centre is used by a large …
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want graduates that can take substantial responsibility and contribute to bottom line profitability within months of … recruits when compared to graduates recruited outside the scheme. Further, this paper demonstrates that one such organisation …
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gains are low. This current paper aims to explore whether university training would influence the respondents’ risk … the potential of university training to improve people's decision making, so as to enhance the rationality of their … University was conducted during the academic year 2007/2008 to investigate the potential of university training to improve people …
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