This paper seeks to further our understanding of the links between training, learning and performance at the level of the firm. It starts with a critical examination of the conceptual underpinning of conventional approaches to this problem, approaches that dominate much of the academic and...

In this book, written by David Ashton and Johnny Sung, the ILO is responding to the widespread interest in learning and training in high performance work organizations (HPWOs) and has taken up the challenge of identifying and documenting these innovative practices. The book looks at many aspects...

Public skills policy in most market economies in the last forty years made one repeated error, time and again. We seem to be unable to learn from those mistakes. Consistently public policies view a wide range of economic and social issues e.g. low productivity, low-skilled jobs, low wage,...

This text examines the role of public skills policy from a new perspective. It starts by challenging the lack of a systematic analysis of the link between skills utilisation and business strategy, and provides a new model for fresh thinking. It extends this theoretical analysis to examine the...