Andrzej Różański
Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Lublin)

Training selection for SME employees - an analysis of the activities
The objective of the present research work was to analyze the activities undertaken to design and select trainings for SME employees. The companies' rising interest in investing in human capital, the growing use of the EU support funds within the Sectoral Operational Programmes in Poland after 2005 accompanied by a dynamic increase in the number of enterprises providing professional trainings brought about broader accessibility to educational and training services on the market. However, despite unquestionable cognitive benefits of the broad participation of SME employees in various training projects, in many cases the training did not bring spectacular results. Our analyses made in SMEs confirm that merit-related involvement in the proper selection of the trainings is of varied quality. Only one in five companies under analysis makes use of the professional tools and almost one third of the SMEs do not diagnose their training needs.