Leadership Training: How Small Businesses Train Future Leaders and How Employees Interact with This Training

Abstract

Leadership training is a developing field when studying business, and the study of leadership training in small and medium sized businesses (businesses under 100 and 500 employees respectively) is even less developed. This project aims to discuss how small businesses handle training future leaders. Additionally, this study also has a focus on age in the workplace, specifically looking at how these employees view leadership training in small and medium sized businesses. This study incorporates a literature review, two interviews with managers, and a survey of young employees. The literature review gives attention to the base of the work, the interviews describe how managers in small businesses go about actually accomplishing leadership training, and the survey looks at how leadership training actually affects workers. This study shows that leadership training is still lacking and is a field that deserves better emphasis in order to make workplaces a better learning site.

Discipline: Human Resources

Faculty Mentor: Dr. Leo Wong