Executive skills in the sub‐culture of small firms

Abstract

Small firms and their training problems have been the subject of much writing and investigation lately. Increasingly, these problems are seen to centre around one basic problem: the improvement of the managerial training and executive skills of the independent businessman himself. This was especially implicit in those parts of the Bolton Report dealing with capitalisation and financial control. And in a recent article in this very journal Dr E Perrigo wrote, ‘The most important training need (of small firms) is at management level … if this is not met, any benefits which might be derived from operator, supervisor or technician training are likely to be nullified.’

Citation

LEE, D. (1972), "Executive skills in the sub‐culture of small firms", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 4 No. 12, pp. 570-572. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003269