... Contingency models of leadership Leadership training and development 360 degree assessment Training United Kingdom Public sector organizations This article presents evidence indicating that particular leadership behaviours are valued more and less highly in different contexts. This follows...

... UK ecopreneurs. Colm Fearon can be contacted at: colm.fearon@canterbury.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Ecopreneurship United Kingdom Eco-enterprise Food retail Entrepreneurial Entrepreneurialism Entrepreneurs Retailing Food industry While...

... Leadership Implementation Handling difficult situations Public sector organizations United Kingdom While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gayThere are frail forms fainting at the door;Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will sayOh! Hard times, come again no more...

.... The four elements or phases of the experiential learning cycle: experiencing, reviewing, concluding and planning are explained and explored within this case study. The case study outlines how Airbus and the Volkswagen Group United Kingdom Ltd use apprentice training programmes as effective extensions...

... be reconciled to make their business training in the UK more effective. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Teaching styles Learning styles Communication Overseas students United Kingdom Professional trainers in the UK involved in business training, both academic (e.g. MBA...

... comparisons and help identify trends. It will be interest to suppliers and buyers of e‐learning in the UK, as well as worldwide. It will also be of interest to market analysts and commentators on this sector. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 E‐learning United Kingdom Learning...

..., to improve performance day to day. There were two recommendations for training following the training needs analysis: Training Insurance companies Training needs United Kingdom Training can be an extremely powerful and cost effective investment by an organisation, but only...

... Management development Employee development Succession planning Competitive advantage United Kingdom In contrast to employee perceptions about the trustworthiness of senior executives, almost three‐quarters (72.6 per cent) of employees trust their direct line managers “mostly” or “completely...

... United Kingdom One of the central objectives of any strategic change initiative is to improve organisational efficiency and performance (Storey, 1995) and the underlying expectations of such change are that it will increase competitiveness, enhance organisational flexibility, produce quality...

... as to provide appropriate advice. Fleet management Training United Kingdom The British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA) launched a new vocational training course for rental/leasing and fleet management providers in June 2008. It aims to raise standards and establish a benchmark...

... what they need? Learning Case studies United Kingdom © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 OCP and EDS, also working with Liverpool Victoria, pre‐qualified ten varying learning systems during the procurement process. Each was specifically rated on a number of focus points...

...% Training Return on investment United Kingdom In today's ever‐changing business climate, as organizations seek ways to remain competitive they have significantly increased their efforts to develop the knowledge, skills, and capabilities of each employee to maximize their organizational impact...

... in that the scheme (which was renamed in 2004 to become the Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence, or ASE), will be examined from a wider policy perspective. Workplace training Training Subsidies Apprenticeships Football United Kingdom Clearly professional football clubs are in a difficult position...

... development in the development of leaders. Leadership development Learning methods United kingdom Three years ago, a team at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) developed a leadership programme for a large UK company which became a flagship executive programme. A short reflective...

... development United Kingdom Business schools and training courses carefully avoid teaching the things people really want to know. They normally teach explicit knowledge: things like strategy, accounting and marketing. That is useful, but not useful enough. Most people succeed with know‐how skills...

... in your next negotiation, you are already leaping ahead of the game. Negotiating Skills training Skills shortages United Kingdom Avid fans of BBC2's The Apprentice regularly wince at the negotiation blunders of the hapless contestants. No one who watches the show will forget Syed...

... of the word – and their teams enormously benefited from it. Customer service Financial services Quality management United Kingdom When a business offers a brand to its customers it extends them a promise that should be exciting, memorable – and, most importantly, deliverable. Keep your promise...

... of their member institutions in helping different growing businesses, to show the wide variety of different services available from the university sector. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Universities Companies Financing Innovation United Kingdom Since time immemorial the economic...

... performance Employee development United Kingdom Departments across the NHS are embracing an agenda of modernisation and adopting a framework of lifelong learning and cultural reform. As part of this process, the National Nursing Leadership Programme (NNLP) was introduced to help nurses solve...

... a framework for mentoring in the SME retail sector. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Mentoring Retailing Small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises United Kingdom In order for mentoring to work effectively the process must be implemented in a systematic way. Jeffrey and Ferguson (1992) set out...