The employment and training practices of SMEs. Examination of research in five EU Member States.

Autor/in	Trouvé, Philippe
Sonst. Personen	Bentabet, Elyes (Mitarb.); Couralt, Bruno (Mitarb.); Creagh, Mary (Mitarb.); Millière, Clémence (Mitarb.); Reindl, Joseph (Mitarb.); Fecht, Markus (Mitarb.); Reinecke, Hartmut (Mitarb.)
Titel	The employment and training practices of SMEs. Examination of research in five EU Member States.
Quelle	Aus: Training in Europe. Luxembourg: Office for Official Public. of the European Communities (2001) S. 91-232Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 576; Abbildungen 8; Tabellen 24
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Bildungsforschung; Fertigkeit; Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Arbeitsmarkt; Beschäftigungspolitik; Beschäftigungssystem; Schlüsselqualifikation; Innovation; Europäische Union; Großbritannien; Spanien
Abstract	This contribution discusses the main driving forces of the employment and training behaviour of small and medium-sized enterprises in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and the UK. After an 'anatomy' of SMEs, the paper attempts to locate their place and evolution in the current changes of the production system: creation and substitution, determinants of the demography of SMEs, ambivalence of technological intensity and innovations. Investigations an entrepreneurship and its contribution to the economic dynamism and job creation are also discussed. The second part deals with SMEs as actors an the labour market. Special attention is given to the utilisation of external labour force, to their recruitment behaviour and their role in the professional integration of young people. The third part discusses the training behaviour of SMEs. Research dealing with the intervention of SMEs in the construction or development of professional competences and employability is presented. Experimentation of continuing vocational training in enterprise networks, at territorial level or in professional branches is also presented. The emergence of new more flexible training settings more adapted to SMEs and especially to small and micro-enterprises is tested. These settings contribute to dislocation of the traditional model of training based an the unity of time, place and action. (DIPF/orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2004_(CD)