Strategic issues for training
Abstract
The trend now in many organizations is to decentralize operations, giving greater responsibility to employees in the form of empowerment. Getting rid of a whole layer of management may sound wonderful to the company accountant and also to many employees, but where does this leave the majority of aspiring young workers who expect to have a career ahead of them? By eradicating middle management, the chain to the highest echelons of the company are dramatically reduced. This can of course be a very good policy in that people have quicker and better contact with the decision‐making people, but this can also leave a vacuum of promotional uncertainty owing to the flattening in the hierarchical chain. Many people like the extra responsibility that empowerment brings, but they must also be able to see that they also have a future within the organization.
Citation
Fojt, M. (1995), "Strategic issues for training", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 19 No. 6, pp. 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/03090590199500002
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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