TRAINING LINE MANAGERS
Line managers are increasingly taking on more responsibility in areas such as absence management and recruitment, yet the training needed to help them carry out these roles has failed to keep up.
This is one of the key findings of IRS research published exclusively on XpertHR and featured in this newsletter.
HR professionals who participated in this survey broadly agreed that training in people management skills should be compulsory, yet just 12% of their organisations have compulsory attendance for all the relevant courses. With half the respondents saying that their organisation's management training is hindered by poor buy-in among senior leaders, and the same number saying it is held back by financial constraints, the finding highlights the disparity between HR views and their ability to influence change.
Since the introduction of new legislation giving employees the right to make a request in relation to training, XpertHR has been working hard to build up a library of resources giving guidance and practical help on this issue. This includes summary guidance, a model policy and a model letter that employers can use to make employees aware of
their statutory right.
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 Charlotte Wolff
Training editor,
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