Analysis of management training needs for women entrepreneurs with special reference to Uttar Pradesh

Women's leadership in contexts of small business ownership can be argued to present different models of leadership style, values, and challenges than those developed by women in organizational leadership roles. Recent studies of women in business ownership suggest that these women business owner-leaders exercise a large degree of control over the vision and purpose of the enterprise, and often deliberately craft working environments and cultures that support their personal values and preferences. They can cultivate their own working relationships with greater freedom. They can seek as much challenge and take as much risk as they can personally manage. Women's entrepreneurship is to be studied separately for two main reasons. The first is that women's entrepreneurship has been recognized to late as an important development source of economic growth. The second reason is that the topic of women entrepreneurship has been largely neglected both in society in general and by the management professionals. In Indian business horizon, women owned businesses are highly increasing in the economies of almost all the states. The hidden entrepreneurial potentials of women have gradually been changing with the growing sensitivity to the role and economic status in the society of Uttar Pradesh.

For this study, I have selected a sample of 100 women entrepreneurs from various districts of Uttar Pradesh. The sample was selected using non-random sampling method from the list of women entrepreneurs provided by state industrial department.