A report by the British Small Business Council(SBC) showed that Britain has a relatively poor labor productivity and loweconomic performance due to a low skills base. UK governments have sought waysto increase training by UK firms. Training, learning, and development are keycomponents in the...

The role of human resource management practices in promoting the performance of firms is widely debated. Yet much of the debate has reached an impasse, with uncertain results as to which practices in fact work and why. It has, moreover, rarely gone beyond the context of large firms. This paper...