Identify the training needs of small and medium-sized enterprises mangers

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the training needs of small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SME) managers in management skills, for this reason these skills have been operationalized within our study based on decision-making and communication. Our study included 75 small and medium-sized enterprises equivalent to 75 managers of small and medium-sized companies in Tizi- Ouzou, Algeria. For that, we relied on the training needs analysis designed by Kenneth. M. Nowach. The latter was adapted by Abderrahmane Tawfic (1994) in the Encyclopedia of Training and Human Development. Field data were subjected to statistical analysis of descriptive and inferential types. The results of the study showed that there is an actual need for training for small and medium-sized enterprises’ managers in terms of the studied management skills whereby it was observed that there are significant statistical differences which in turn explain the need for managers to develop their skills in the dimensions of decision-making and communication through training