How is training developed within enterprises? an analysis of the Castilla-La Mancha situation

Abstract

At present, the environment is very changeable, so firms have to base their competitive advantages on intangible resources, and one ofthem human resources. As a result of this, training is receiving special attention on the part ofthe firms and, nowadays, many firms attach great importance to this practice within human resources management.The training must be planned to address the lack ofskills ofemployees and the training plan must answer "who, when, where and how". In the present paper, we will analyze, in a qualitative and quantitative way, how the above mentioned training process is developed within the firms. With this purpose in mind we have used a data base of572 companies from Castilla-La Mancha with at least 50 employees, from which we obtained118 valid questionnaires (20,6%).