Abstract
The capability to learn faster than the competition is now widely considered a (yet another) mission critical capability. But organisations do not always recognise the link between investing in people and possible gains in productivity and other business outcomes. This might well arise because of a lack of understanding of the potential return from investing in people, including problems with evaluating the return.
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Coppin, A. (2017). Learning and Development. In: The Human Capital Imperative. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49121-9_7
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