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Vocational education, training and organizational change: a small business perspective
Author(s) -
Matlay Harry
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
strategic change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.527
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1099-1697
pISSN - 1086-1718
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1697(199908)8:5<277::aid-jsc433>3.0.co;2-d
Subject(s) - panacea (medicine) , vocational education , credibility , economic shortage , rhetoric , public relations , training (meteorology) , perspective (graphical) , small business , business , business sector , marketing , political science , economic growth , management , economics , economy , medicine , linguistics , philosophy , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , artificial intelligence , government (linguistics) , meteorology , computer science , law
In Britain, a healthy and growing small business sector has progressively come to be seen as the long‐term solution to the nation's ‘relative’ economic decline. Endemic skill shortages in the small business sector are perceived as a major handicap to the nation‐wide effort to rejuvenate the flagging British economy. An expanding and increasingly diverse vocational education and training (VET) system has been hailed as the panacea to the drawbacks of a poorly educated and trained labour force. The disappointing impact of contemporary training initiatives betrays the wide credibility gap that exists between VET rhetoric and the needs of small business owner/managers. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.