Managing Human Resources, 3rd Edition

4 Training The essential ingredient

            Anna Kyprianou and Jacqui Kasket

‘Training is a continuing investment in the most valuable of all our national resources — the energies of our people’¹ and many consider it, along with education, to be imperative to the industrial success of the UK. This chapter examines training from a number of different perspectives. First, it attempts to place the importance of training into a broader national context and to highlight its benefits to both organisations and individuals. It goes on to use a training framework to explore how organisations can systematically train their employees.

4.1 Training: the broader national perspective

The relationship between training, education and industry is one which ...