Life Business Training —: A Human Resource Foundation for Developing Organisational Cultures

Abstract

Managers have a particular opportunity at the moment to tackle core business issues rather than relatively peripheral matters. The opportunity arises out of the prolonged series of upheavals which have replaced the relative economic calm of the 50s, 60s and early 70s. It arises because an increasing number of “hard‐nosed” managers acknowledge that supposedly “soft” issues, such as motivation, culture and values, are central to even medium‐term business effectiveness. This, of course, was the central conclusion of Peters and Waterman's In Search of Excellence which has reached huge numbers of managers with its sales of over five million copies.

Citation

Bumstead, D. and King, D. (1985), "Life Business Training —: A Human Resource Foundation for Developing Organisational Cultures", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 9 No. 7, pp. 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014225