Employment and Skills

Investors in People is a business improvement tool administered by UK Commission for Employment and Skills. It was launched in 1991 at the end of the early 1990s recession

In 2008 there were almost 40,000 organizations currently working with Investors in People. These organizations employ over 7.5 million people in the UK

Provide a common set of standards to improve organizational performance through the management and development of people.

Case1:

- A manufacturing company producing highly specialized components for petro-chemical

- 1,000 staff, almost all full-time.

- 60% are (male) manual workers ? multi-skilled craftsmen

- It has its own training department and an on-site training center under the direction of the personnel department.

- The company committed to IIP on the instigation of the personnel director and marketing director and was aiming for accreditation within 2 years.

Case 2:

- The company produces hydraulic valves for major manufacturers of industrial and domestic products.

- 56 employees, 26 are white collar and professional workers

- No specialized personnel or human resources department? line mangers or the board

- Autocracy management style ? inconsistencies in downward communications

- 2 problems: the need to have a system of HRD and expanding organization required HRM

- was aiming for accreditation within 12 months.

1. How did the company in case 1 respond to the I.I.P. initiative? How did the second company