Education and training can enhance small business owner/managers' managerial skills and is known to be effective in reducing small business failure. Training plays an important role in the competitive success of firms as people who acquire appropriate skills are more productive based on output...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to enhance understanding of the relationships among team emotional intelligence (EI), trust in team, conflict in team and team performance. Design/methodology/approach: A sample of 389 team members from 84 project teams in large-scale construction projects...

The characteristics of Australian employers in smallbusiness who wish to engage in online training are examined. Using data from astudy conducted to evaluate a specific training program for small businessesthat have operated in Western Australia since 2000, 716 employers wereconsidered. The data...

This paper investigates small business employers' willingness to participate in online training based on survey of 716 Western Australian small business employers. The results indicate that those small business employers with aspirations towards business growth and who are existing Internet...