Personnel Review: Volume 29 Issue 4

“Winners” training and its troubles

Mark Stein

The concept of “winners” has become a popular motif in the design of training programmes, especially in the area of customer service. This paper examines the case of one such…

Transient transfusion; or the wearing‐off of the governance of the soul?

Nic Beech, George Cairns, Tom Robertson

This paper critically examines an approach to employee development which breaks with the tradition of systematic training. The training event discussed here, Transfusion, was a…

“Modern” learning methods: rhetoric and reality

Eugene Sadler‐Smith, Simon Down, Jonathan Lean

The application of technology in both its “hard” (for example through computing technology) and “soft” (for example through instructional design ) forms has enhanced the range of…

Employee development through self‐development in three retail banks

Elena P. Antonacopoulou

The employee development initiatives in three retail banks are the focus of this paper. The discussion draws on recent empirical findings to examine the motives and expectations…

Employee‐led development: another piece of left luggage?

John Hamblett, Rick Holden

The article explores the growth of EDAP‐style employee led development (ELD) schemes in the 1990s and critically appraises the arguments offered in their support. The dominant…

The role of employee development in the growth of intellectual capital

Andrew Mayo

The focus on costs that characterised organisations in the 1980s and early 1990s is now being replaced by an interest in the concept of value. In assessing value, it is the…