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Download full textAmerican Institutes for Research, Washington, DC. – 1993
This guide was developed to help small business owners and managers select effective programs for their companies. Seven guidelines to help the small business manager analyze and compare programs and predict training effectiveness are presented in the forum of questions. They are: (1) Are the training objectives specific? (2) Is the structure…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Evaluation Criteria, Guidelines, On the Job Training
Rinehart, Eric L., Ed.; Lamb, Melissa, Ed. – 1987
This resource guide is intended to help communities that want to implement an entrepreneurship training program. Chapters I and II contain general advice for the planning process, such as how to assess need and community support, assess current services for entrepreneurs, select target clientele, develop a community support network, and identify…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Education, Community Resources
Gramm, Linda A. – 1987
The Institute for Business, Industry and Government was established at Orange County Community College (New York) in April 1984 for the purpose of providing high quality, cost-effective training taught by qualified professionals at convenient locations and to develop methods of measuring training effectiveness. Since its first year of offering…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Business Administration, Business Skills, Clearinghouses
Informed Decision Services, Englewood, NJ. – 1992
Established as a pilot project in 1991, Preparing for Profit (PREP) was a four-session entrepreneurial training seminar offered by LaGuardia Community College/City University of New York, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Coopers & Lybrand. PREP was designed to enhance opportunities for minority- and women-owned…
Descriptors: Business Administration, Business Education, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs
Arizona State Board of Directors for Community Colleges, Phoenix. – 1994
The Task Force on Institutional Effectiveness Measures was formed by the State Board of Directors for Community Colleges of Arizona to develop a statewide plan for systematically demonstrating the degree to which community colleges accomplish their diverse missions. Two subgroups were formed in the Task Force on transfer and college programs and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Annual Reports, Business Administration, College Outcomes Assessment
Nubler, Irmgard – 1992
A research project in the Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Tanzania evaluated the cost effectiveness of management training seminars for women entrepreneurs in the informal sector. Women, a large and growing part of entrepreneurs, had less access to needed resources, skills, and information than men. Reasons for failure to study the cost effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Education, Cost Effectiveness
1999
These four papers are from a symposium on changing workplaces. "Women Entrepreneurs: Maintaining Business Success through Human Resource Development" (Dominic G. Kamau , Gary N. McLean, Alexander Ardishvili) investigates contributions of human resource development (HRD) to business success and reports the following: (1) women can be…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business, Business Administration, Career Development
Nelson, Robert E.; Piland, William E. – 1982
This manual contains guidelines for organizing small business programs in community colleges. Following an introductory discussion of the need for such a program both throughout the United States in general and in Illinois in particular, the role of the community college in facilitating small business development is examined. Guidelines are set…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Advisory Committees, Business Administration, Business Administration Education
