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Analysis of the obstacles for application of the training in small business: four cases studies in metal-mechanical companies in the city of São Carlos - SP

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Author(s):
Ana Paula dos Reis
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Master's Dissertation
Press: São Carlos.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Edmundo Escrivão Filho; Osvaldo Elias Farah; Dante Pinheiro Martinelli
Advisor: Edmundo Escrivão Filho
Abstract

The main goal of this research is to analyze the obstacles in applying training in small business. Training the process of preparation of employees to execute tasks demanded by a work position, making shorter the difference between what the employee know or can do and what they will have to know or do concerning about technical abilities, knowledge an attitudes. Nowadays, training can improve the performance of a specific task or contribute to the employee\'s integral formation, being thus a stimulator agent. In small business very little is known about human resource practice or about training. Using exploratory and descriptive multicase methodology, four business were studied, all of them from metal-mechanic field in the city of São Carlos, two of them built on technological basis, and the other two on conventional basis; analyzing the obstacles in applying training and recognizing the influent factors in small business. The major contribution of this research lays not only on those obstacles, but also in the identification of the factors that have influence in the nature of the training process. (AU)