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Andrew Mayo

By Andrew Mayo (July 2007 Issue)
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One of the many mantras of current HR ideology is that “people should manage their own development”. I have observed participants on courses listen to this so many times as the opening or closing comment by an HR director… and watched their eyes register puzzlement about what exactly that might mean. I can choose my own future courses? I can get that job as marketing manager for the Maldives and Indian Ocean just by asking? I can go and do that MBA? Of course they know that none of these things are that easy or are under their control. The same HR directors are rarely explicit about the next level of the exhortation – namely “and this means that…”

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