E-Leader‚ Prague 2007 IMPORTANCE OF MANAGERIAL SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE IN MANAGEMENT FOR SMALL ENTREPRENEURS Zuzana Papulová Matej Mokroš Comenius University Faculty of Management Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship Bratislava‚ Slovakia Abstract Small enterprises are generally considered to be more operative‚ can respond quicker and are more flexible than big companies‚ which form their strategies for years ahead. Limited focus on operations can have its advantages‚ but can also prevent
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| | |• small and medium-sized enterprises are contributing to employment growth at a higher rate than larger firms. In | | |the EU economy about 99.9 per cent of the enterprises are SMEs of which 92 per cent are micro enterprises. Read | |Number of SME’s |also “What is a small business?” | |
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The book Small as an Elephant by Jennifer Richard Jacobson is about an 11 year old boy who was abandoned by his mother on a camping trip in Maine. Jack wakes up to find himself alone and miles away from his home town in Boston. Jack knows he must find her or the DSS will take him away from her. The only thing he has to comfort himself is the small plastic elephant that he stole from a souvenir shop. With no money‚ food‚ or any type of communication Jack is forced to do things he never thought he
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1 FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH PROGRAMME WORKING PAPER SERIES Paper No 15 THE POLICY ENVIRONMENT FOR PROMOTING SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES IN GHANA AND MALAWI Dalitso Kayanula and Peter Quartey IDPM‚ University of Manchester May 2000 ISBN: Series Editor: Further details: Published by: 1 902518675 Colin Kirkpatrick Maggie Curran‚ Marketing and Publicity Administrator Institute for Development Policy and Management‚ University of Manchester‚ Crawford House‚ Precinct
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EMPLOYEE SELECTION FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS: THE INFLUENCES OF THE UNIFORM GUIDELINES AND COURT DECISIONS Edward‚ Ph.D. McKendree College Business Division 701 College Road Lebanon‚ IL 62254 (618)-537-4481 ABSTRACT The Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978) were promulgated with large businesses in mind in order to affect large numbers of employees as rapidly as possible. However‚ the employee selection validation procedure advocated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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Analyze funding opportunities for small businesses‚ including the role of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Then‚ evaluate the effectiveness of these funding opportunities in light of the current economy. • In this time of economic challenges‚ suggest two ways that the SBA might be of assistance to your small business. Explain how you would request this assistance. Small businesses have two major options for funding; a bank loan or pursue the Small Business Administration (SBA). A
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1. What are the advantages of a small business going international through incremental stages rather than as a global start up? There are many advantages of a small business going international through incremental stages‚ rather than as a global start up. First of all a startup that utilizes the small business stage model where it has an incremental process of internationalization gives that them a much larger chance of sustainability and success‚ rather than trying to start large which puts them
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Epiphany in A Small Good Thing In the story A Small Good Thing by Raymond Carver there are many epiphanies the three main characters have. The one that stood out to me was the one that happened to the baker. Early in the story the baker had a small relationship with the mother‚ Ann. He was supposed to just be making a birthday cake for Scotty‚ Ann’s son. While Scotty was in the hospital the cake was made but never picked up. The baker had every right to be mad that the cake would go to waste
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JOB SATISFACTION IN SMALL TO MID .. SIZED BUSINESSES IN MALAYSIA Robert W. Rowden & Mercer University-Atlanta Atlanta‚ Georgia USA Shams uddin Ahmad Universiti Putra Malaysia Serdang‚ Malaysia Studies of workplace learning tend tofocus on largefirms even though small businesses constitute 98 percent of u.s. firms. Recent studies have found evidence of extensive HRD in small businesses. Other recent studies found a higher level of job satisfaction among employees of small firms than employees
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advantages for small business to do business on the Internet. Depends on the type of business‚ it is not necessary for everybody to do business on the Internet. Prior to the invention of the Internet‚ Large global firms could work on advances in accessing the newest technological information‚ exchanging information‚ and reaching international customers. The Internet can help diminish information asymmetry and permits small businesses to act like large global businesses. Firstly‚ small firms can instant
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