Continuous Development: Theory and Reality

Abstract

Regular readers of Personnel Review may be surprised to encounter a style that does not involve a theoretical or principled base, and prefers reflections on experience as the route to new learning. It is my belief that the latter reflects the personnel practitioner's reality, whilst the former tends to limit it; the typical personnel manager's political role forces him/her to see any sophisticated set of logically related concepts as unlikely to satisfy future operational needs. My aim is to show practitioners that continuous management development processes can be integrated with everyday work without waiting for new or superior theoretical models.

Citation

Barrington, H.A. (1986), "Continuous Development: Theory and Reality", Personnel Review, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 27-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb055531