Training for Public Managers: The Alabama Certified Public Manager Program

Abstract

Of all the human resource functions which occupy personnel specialists' attention, organisations probably spend the most time on training and development. Virtually all employees experience some form of training at some time during their careers. Employee training and development is an attempt to improve current or future employee performance by increasing an employee's attitudes or increasing his/her skills and knowledge. Training can be quite extensive as exemplified by a professional seminar series, or it can be a brief set of instructions given by a supervisor to a new employee. Training programmes may be more likely than any other human resource function to affect employees significantly during their work lives (because of their pervasiveness). Furthermore, training and development can have a direct and lasting effect on individual employees, for the purpose of training is to change the employees themselves.

Citation

Sims, R.R., Veres, J.G., Locklear, T.S. and Wells, R.B. (1987), "Training for Public Managers: The Alabama Certified Public Manager Program", Journal of European Industrial Training, Vol. 11 No. 6, pp. 11-13. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014238