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Article: Insight: Staff development - Myths and reality. Swallowing the myths surrounding management development could see your best employees being lured away to more enlightened firms or failing to fulfil their potential. Mary Chapman sets out to prove that great leaders can be made.
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- Accountancy Age
- Article date:
- February 17, 2005
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Skills gaps are rife, but more than just an issue of recruitment and staff retention, too many employees are under-performing as organisations fail to provide them with adequate support to grow the business.
Given the huge national and corporate investment in building management and leadership capabilities, questions about the effectiveness of development activities are valid, necessary and urgent.
There has always been an implicit belief that management development works, and the government has also clearly recognised the importance of the management agenda; a point made clear in various reports published by both the DTI and DfES.
But despite ...