Career & Management Development

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n learning, secondments, project working, performance and development reviews, development centres, 360-degree feedback, succession planning, e-learning and blended learning and finally management education.(www.cipd.co.uk)

But where does career and management development stands in UK? According to a research conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (2004) Great Britain is falling behind the rest of Europe in developing managers. The study illustrates that Organizations in UK spend less than their European counterparts on training and development and are less likely to offer sufficient career planning to employees. Approximately 43% of the HR managers supported that their organizations had a formal policy statement on management development however this percentage was 75% in Norway (Industrial & Commercial Training, 2004)
The changing context of careers
The context of careers has not remained stable over the years. Careers have undergone fundamental changes. There is ample evidence to show that economic constraints, more intens...