Development and Learning in Organizations: Volume 18 Issue 3

Meaningful career development pathways: From shop assistant to corporate associate

Paul Davis

Bakers Delight Holdings is the largest retail bakery chain in the world. With over 650 bakeries in three countries the company employs both a large number of bakery staff in its…

Mind the gap!: The critical role of continuing professional development

Godfrey Owen

The UK “skills gap” has been estimated to cost UK business around £20 billion every year. Far from being confined to the IT industry, as press reports would have us believe, it…

The future of learning at work: Discussions from the US corporate university conference

Richard Teare

For the first time the US corporate university conference included a panel discussion with questions from corporate university leaders attending the event. The panel facilitator…

Learning interventions: The new objective

Martyn Sloman, Maram Al Dowayan

Short projects are often the most illuminating. This article seeks to draw some lessons from a simple research project. The methods used in the research are easily understood; the…

360 aggregate reporting advances human asset management: Making genuine use of feedback data

David Hallam

A multi‐hospital health system was facing urgent new demands related to staff development, driven by internal and external factors. To improve the standard of care, and to counter…

Fostering high performance learning at work: Leading the way with action learning

The notion that management learning should first and foremost meet the needs of business clearly makes sense. It seems almost inconceivable, then, that it has taken over half a…

Back to school for executive learning: Executive education programs face up to the challenge of change

The world of executive education (EE) is changing. Increased competition between business schools and other providers, reductions in the corporate workforce and lower corporate…

Interactive training for UK SMEs: Breaking through cultural barriers with e‐learning

How exactly could a higher education institution assist in the development of international trade? This was the burning question facing the University of Salford in the UK as it…

How mentors make a growing impact: “Wise, trusted advisors”

There is something appealing about the idea of mentoring as a form of management development. In the fiercely competitive business world, the notion that a “wise or trusted…