...Simon M. Smith; Peter Stokes; John F. Wilson Purpose – Investors in People (IiP) is a UK government-backed scheme aimed at enabling organizations to develop their training and development cultures and, thereby, their competitiveness. The purpose of this paper is to examine the perceptions...

... and development United Kingdom The search for the most effective means of improving the quality of management practice in Britain has been (and remains) a recurrent theme in the literature on training and development. Managers, it is argued, may well represent the critical resource that holds the key...