... Executive development Non‐executive development Social housing organizations Employees development Boards/governance Boards of directors United Kingdom 1. Identification of key words and phrases. The authors initially experimented with alternative ways of expressing the key...

...” initiatives designed to train and develop effective managers and leaders within the health services sector of Romania and the United Kingdom. Originality/value The study is a rare example of indigenous managerial behaviour research in a non‐Anglo country. The results lend strong empirical support...

... policies in turn and what their implications are for the day‐to‐day practice of the HR practitioner. Human resource management Learning Continuing professional development United Kingdom The concept of continuing professional development (CPD) has existed for some considerable time...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Small enterprises Training External markets United Kingdom As Billett (2001, p. 416) observed, persuading small businesses to engage with vocational training, and with training providers, has historically been a “hard ask.” Small firms...

... Learning Banks Learning organizations Skills training United Kingdom Continuing development Investment banks have been a major focus of political and media attention in recent years, and their activities have been heavily criticised in regard to the sudden collapse of world famous banks...

... Teaching United Kingdom How often could you attack it [a concept, a hope, or a desire] before it crumbled? To undo something took practice; it was a dark art and they were perfecting it. With each argument, the next would be easier, would become a compulsive act … it would be impossible to keep away...

... Housing United Kingdom Social housing in the UK has changed radically over recent decades, and the provision of social housing is now delivered by organisations which are very different from the huge housing departments in the era of mass “council housing”. These changes would represent...

... Learning Skills United Kingdom A training programme for teaching the concepts of software engineering and related support practices was introduced into AWE plc in response to a need identified from a comprehensive software quality management system (SQMS) implementation assessment (Elliott et...

... workers Workplace Behaviour Psychological contracts Human resource management United Kingdom Athukorala (1993) defined migrant labour as all those who migrate for employment reasons including all those who migrate for work, for longer term settlement, and those who are recruited...

... ; Hall, 2000 ; Khatri, 1999 ; Wang and Wang, 2006). Outsourcing Human resource development Process planning Working practices United Kingdom A growing trend in HRD in recent years has seen a steady increase in the number of training tasks being undertaken by external providers...

... of the job. This should produce a dedicated, trained, young and ambitious group of people ready to enter employment. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Catering industry Cooking Training Skills United Kingdom The hospitality industry employs 1.9m people in Great Britain...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Small enterprises Training evaluation Training needs United Kingdom A “demand‐led” rhetoric now underpins the UK Government's approach to workforce development. Within this policy reconfiguration raising skill levels and productivity in the small...

... in research methods, but not necessarily related to education, training and learning – six had previously published in some academic field. Vocational training Lifelong learning Professionals associations Research United Kingdom The project and workshop publicity created a great deal...

... training Professional education Higher education United Kingdom Universities in the UK have been involved with the provision of continuing education and training in all its forms for over 100 years. However it is only over the past 25 years that the UK Government has concerned itself...

... not recognise the importance of key as opposed to job specific skills. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Skills Vocational training Apprenticeships United Kingdom Separate meetings of approximately 2 h duration were held with each stakeholder group. In line with established...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Leadership Business excellence European Foundation for Quality Management Cross‐cultural studies Germany United Kingdom Most leadership theories are in English and of American origin, according to many writers such as Olie (1995) , Stewart...

.... 4. Marketing: developing and implementing innovative marketing and branding techniques. 5. Measurement: measuring the value of an organisation's investment in learning. Corporate ventures Universities Mission statements United States of America United Kingdom A number...

... theory to a broader range of methodological and theoretical perspectives (Elliott and Turnbull, 2002a , p. 971). Human resource development Human resource management Management effectiveness National Health Service United Kingdom This article examines the term “critical” from various...

... Training Investors in people The Netherlands United Kingdom A key issue in international management is the extent to which management practices are converging in response to the pressures of globalisation, and the ready availability to managers in all parts of the world of the same concepts of what...

.... The proprietors recognised a need for greater education, but many did not perceive it to be a training issue, and suggested other potential providers. Diet Catering industry Customer requirements Personal health Training United Kingdom © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004...