BICS weighted Scotland estimates: data to wave 64

Improving Management Practices

In Wave 64, the BICS asked businesses about improving their management practices – the specific question is shown below.

Management practices question: In which of the following ways, if any, is your business currently improving its management practices?

• conducts experimental changes
• consults employees about potential improvements
• consults managers in other organisations about potential improvements   
• hires management consultants 
• reads management literature    
• receives formal training in person       
• receives formal training online  
• other  
• not sure       
• not applicable        
• business is not currently improving management practices

Figure 3: The most common ways that businesses reported improving their management practices were consulting employees about potential improvements (43.5%), and receiving formal training online (23.0%) and receiving formal training in person (22.3%).

Source: Office for National Statistics – BICS – Weighted Scotland Estimates – Wave 64

In Wave 64, businesses were also asked about the main challenge for improving the way their business is managed.  An estimated 35.1% of businesses reported that they do not experience any challenges.  A further 17.7% reported that lack of time to find relevant information or plan changes is the main challenge.