Purpose – This paper aims to explore why investment in people development and engagement is the key to company growth. Design/methodology/approach – The paper explains the importance of people development and engagement in general terms; then highlights the contribution they made to...

Purpose – The aim of the article is to describe how Keynote Teambuilding provided 15 members of staff from the Manchester headquarters of the Oddfellows friendly society with a team‐building experience that covered song creation, playing technique and live performing – all within the space...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to develop a framework to evaluate employee satisfaction with the training program by capturing its key indicators. Design/methodology/approach – An instrument was devised through an extensive literature review. Data from the respondents were subjected...

Purpose – This paper aims to assist those involved with personnel training and training management in the implementation of cloud learning in their organization. Design/methodology/approach – The paper focuses on practical examples and provides a discussion on the importance of cloud...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the competitiveness motive and mastery motive across 33 countries. The competitiveness motive is found to be a significant but negative predictor of employee training. Design/methodology/approach – The dataset was collected from two sources....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at the competitiveness motive and mastery motive across 33 countries. The competitiveness motive is found to be a significant but negative predictor of employee training. Design/methodology/approach – The dataset was collected from two sources....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the construction of discourses in current popular management models described in the field of management coaching in order to examine the disciplining forms and the type of authority appeal drawn upon in these models....

Purpose – This paper aims to advance the view that having a rigorous, cyclical, ongoing process around talent management may be the most important differentiator between organizational success and failure. Design/methodology/approach – The paper argues that the most effective...