Increasing Your Success as a Small Business Leader
Автор:Robert S. Frey Год: 2013 Издание:Scholars' Press Страниц: 120 ISBN: 9783639703078 What leaders think they are good at (self-efficacy) influences their decisions about allocating resources within their small organizations. Data analyzed from 577 U.S.-based small business leaders indicate that knowing a business owner’s perceived area of self-efficacy improves the ability to predict that owner’s allocation of resources. Results of this study can be applied to developing a decision-making model with significant practical application. This model might be leveraged for such key business decisions as hiring, budgeting, staffing, controlling general and administrative costs, and outsourcing decisions. The key is for leaders in small companies to learn to rely on others with proven expertise and hands-on experience in business areas outside of their particular sphere of self-perceived expertise. They would benefit from developing a balanced organization that includes a cross-section of business infrastructure knowledge within their management team. Small business...
