Developing Community Enterprise Managers

Abstract

Community enterprises require organisation and thus require people with the skills to initiate and maintain them. Through describing the provision of the first national qualification in community enterprise management, this article explores some of the similarities and differences between community enterprises and other forms of management. It is suggested that community enterprise managers require their own learning environment. Broadly, it is claimed that problem‐based, student‐centred learning methods, when utilised specifically for community entrepreneurs, can allow for different individual and group development of managerial expertise. However, there can be difficulties between the language of management and the values and purpose of some of these “enterprises”.

Citation

Loewenthal, D. (1986), "Developing Community Enterprise Managers", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 22-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002193