Meeting the Development Needs of Owner Managed Small Enterprise: A Discussion of the Centrality of Action Learning

Autor/in	Gibb, Allan
Titel	Meeting the Development Needs of Owner Managed Small Enterprise: A Discussion of the Centrality of Action Learning
Quelle	In: Action Learning: Research and Practice, 6 (2009) 3, S.209-227 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1476-7333
Schlagwörter	Experiential Learning; Values; Management Development; Business Education; Small Businesses; Learning Processes; Barriers; Adult Learning; Teaching Methods; Entrepreneurship; Foreign Countries; Labor Force Development; Organizational Development; Organizational Culture; Cultural Influences; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; Wertbegriff; Wirtschaftserziehung; Wirtschaftspädagogik; Kleingewerbe; Learning process; Lernprozess; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Unternehmungsgeist; Ausland; Arbeitskräftebestand; Organisationsentwicklung; Unternehmenskultur; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss; Großbritannien
Abstract	This paper explores the role that action learning might play in micro and small enterprise development. It is divided into two parts. The first part focuses upon the distinctive characteristics of smallness and ownership and their implication for management development processes in the owner managed firm. In particular the impact of personal values, ways of doing things and distinctive forms of learning are explored. The argument points to the emotional underpinning of the ways in which the organisation is developed and run. The challenges to action learning are then reviewed. The second part focuses upon the "institutional" factors that stand in the way of effective approaches to owner manager learning and in particular how they impact on the way that knowledge is delivered and pedagogies applied by business education organisations to the small firm. It is argued that the pervasive corporatism of the approach does much to explain why owner managers are reluctant to pay for existing training and education offers. The barriers that confront action learning approaches are examined. Overall it is concluded that action learning is central to effective owner manager learning, that there are distinctive skill challenges for action learning facilitators but that there need to be major changes in institutional norms. (Contains 3 figures, 1 table, and 11 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10