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Manpower Matters: Corporate Training and Development Strategies

Discussions with members of various college courses over the past year, and particularly with the Centre's annual Personnel Directors' Workshop, have shown evidence of considerable concern for the need for a fresh look at organisational training and development policies. We therefore decided, with Peter Bowen, former Director of the Centre, to run a workshop to explore the issues and to look at different approaches to them. Managers with responsibility for training policy are finding themselves in the midst of many contradictions at the present time. On the one hand, the initiatives of the Government and Manpower Services Commission are represented as a 'revolution' in training in Britain, and reports on employment policies and speeches of public figures all stress the 'vital' role of training in adapting to new technology but, at the same time, Industrial Training Boards are being disbanded (with little or nothing to replace them in some areas) and company training departments are being decimated as the recession takes its toll. As Lindley comments, 'both government and industry appear to be more than usually convinced that they cannot afford to do much, at the same time as being more than usually convinced that much deserves to be done'. *