Investing in People: Towards Corporate Capability

Investing in People focuses on contemporary issues in training and development from a strategic point of view. In particular, the author predicts the impact of competence-based and self-managed learning programmes, and discusses the implications of other national initiatives such as Investors in People. Peter Critten also examines how to develop a culture which enables all staff to benefit from a corporate learning environment. Investing in People is designed to provide practitioners and academics in the fields of training and human resourcedevelopment with an up-to-date account of the many training initiatives that could have a strategic impact on organizations. In addition, the author develops a framework within which organizations can integrate and use these initiatives to move from individual competence to corporate capability. Of particular interest to training and HRM managers, senior executives and students studying human resource management (especially at MBA/DMS level). Dr Peter Critten has over twenty-five years' experience of initiating and evaluating training and development systems, mainly in service industries. He is also a part-time lecturer at Middlesex University Business School. focuses on the common features underlying a complex array of current initiatives in the field of Training and Human Resource Developmentprovides information on and examples of new initiatives provides a vision of how organizations in the future will be developing their staff