Algerian Adult's Attitudes Engaged in an Ongoing Training towards Continuing Education

In order to diagnose to which extent do Algerian managers believe in continuing education as a means of a professional and personal progress, we opted for a qualitative method using a face to face interviews. Our sample was fourteen managers engaged in an ongoing training for their professional development working in various organizations in Béjaia, Algeria. Results demonstrated that adults’ attitudes differ from one participant to another due to a number of such factors as: willingness to progress, age, way to access to responsiblity, the training's pretext, the employer's proessional status. We concluded that a diversity of attitudes exists among adult trainees according to the analysed variables. This led to the following typology: graduate/self-taught, early career/late career, chosen/imposed training, professional/hierarchy-based.