Employee training as a tool to achieve goals depending on SME’s type

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Employee training is one of the most important areas of human resources management and is key to the career development of employees. The aim is to determine how the sector and size of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) influence the corporate education of employees. Data were collected using a questionnaire distributed among 610 SMEs in the Czech Republic; valid answers were obtained from 581 enterprises. The respondents mainly include managers responsible for employee education or other representatives with relevant experience. This database was tested using statistical methods, including Pearson’s chi-squared test of independence, Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test, and Kruskal-Wallis test. The results indicate that enterprises with 150-250 employees try to provide them with training that would correspond to the so-called work-life balance. Enterprises with 50-149 employees often have a larger budget and resources to invest in corporate training. The results show that in terms of SME size, employee training is most commonly applied by medium-sized enterprises. It is confirmed that the bigger the enterprise, the more frequently its employees are trained. On the other hand, the sector does not significantly influence employee training. Slightly above-average use of employee training is observed in the transport and logistics sectors, but the difference is not substantial.

Acknowledgment
This paper was supported by the project IVSUPS2303 “Current topics of the social pillar of CSR related to acquiring and developing human resources.”

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    • Table 1. Comparison of rates of actual application of employee training in SMEs by size
    • Table 2. Comparison of perceiving benefits of training
    • Table 3. Comparison of employees’ perception of freedom and personal responsibility
    • Table 4. Comparison of work-life balance by SME size
    • Table 5. The importance of employee education considering the size of SMEs
    • Table 6. Comparison of the importance of employee training by sector
    • Table 7. Comparison of benefits of training by sector
    • Table 8. Comparison of employees’ perception of freedom and personal responsibility by sector
    • Table 9. Comparison of work-life balance by sector
    • Table 10. The importance of employee education depending on the sector
    • Table 11. Test of normal distribution in groups by SME size category (normality test)
    • Table 12. Test of normal distribution in groups by sector
    • Table 13. Significance of effect of SME size on training
    • Table 14. Pairwise comparisons of SME size
    • Table 15. Significance of the effect of the sector on corporate training
    • Conceptualization
      Iveta Kmecova, Stefan Gavura
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