Education and Training Practice Strategies in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

Education and Training Practice Strategies in Small and

Medium Sized Enterprises

Andrea Bencsik, Vendel Lőre and Andrea Sólyom

Széchenyi István University, Győr, Hungary

bencsik.andrea@yahoo.com

lore@sze.hu

solyoma@sze.hu

Abstract: The role of knowledge is a determinative factor in the life of economy and society. To determine

knowledge is not an easy task yet the real task is to determine the right knowledge. From this view knowledge is

a sum of experience, ideas and cognitions which can help companies to remain in markets and to realize a

maximum profit. At the same time changes of circumstances project in advance that contents and demands of

the right knowledge are changing. In the past more than 10 years studying, education and human resource (HR)

development have become determinative factors in the area of HR management. It means much more than

earlier from the view of companies. It has become a strategic question and simultaneously it is a dominant source

of competitiveness. Why do we have to manage knowledge? We have to manage knowledge because

intellectual capital is in the foreground of organizational statements. However, it is clear that knowledge can be

difficult to account for however, its importance is indisputable. The more companies can keep and exploit their

employees’ knowledge, the more they will be able to attain business success. Their knowledge can be found in

many divisions (departments, workshops, industrial units, etc), it is dissipated and cannot be reached by every

employee. Therefore companies have to discover their knowledge again and again, they have to find solutions

which have already been born in another unit. In this paper we will analyse a special segment on the basis of an

empirical survey. We investigated the behaviour and strategies of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in

the area of knowledge-handling. This survey was realized by questionnaires and wide range statistical methods

were used during...