Learning and training

• Please see separate web pages for details of ongoing and published research in these topic areas:
  
  
• Coaching
• Learning and development in the recession  
• Helping people learn - details of a major CIPD research programme which examined how organisations can move from a strategy based on the delivery of training to one based on support for learning.
• Value of learning -- details of research focusing on evaluation, particularly on aligning learning with strategic organisational objectives.  

Other research in the area of learning, training and development

• We run an annual learning and development survey that provides data on current and emerging trends and issues.
  
  
  • View the 2010 survey report  
    
    
• Our hot topic report Talent development in the BRIC countries gives a quick overview of some of the issues for HR in Brazil, Russia, India and China, providing some practice pointers for HR professionals working in these environments.
  
  

  • Read the hot topic report

• A survey of employees' experiences of training was published in November 2008, following up on surveys conducted in 2002 and 2005. Who learns at work? looks at the availability of training, who receives the most training opportunities,  preferred training methods and the success and relevance of training.
• View the report 
  
  
• In September 2006 we published a research report investigating the take-up of the Modern Apprenticeship scheme by large employers. The report is available to purchase online in our bookstore.

•  Buy the report
•  View the summary
  
  
• In January 2005 we published a guide to basic skills. Basic skills in the workplace: opening doors to learning poses questions to think about why and how improving literacy and numeracy impacts on bottom line productivity.
• View the paper
  
  
• A think-piece on e-learning and disabilty was published in January 2005. It is based on interviews with key stakeholders and containing details of examples of current practice in case study organisations to realise the potential of e-learning for disabled people.
• View the change agenda
  
  
• A think-piece on trade union representatives and how they can contribute to learning at work was produced jointly with the TUC in April 2004.
• More details of Trade Union Learning Representatives
  
  
• Martyn Sloman's book, Training in the Age of the Learner, published in September 2003, comments on the shift from training to learning, with a move away from isolated top-down training interventions to encouraging and supporting the learner. A summary think-piece, Focus on the Learner, is available in the Change Agenda series.
• View the change agenda
  
  
• Our project How do people learn was conducted on behalf of CIPD by the Cambridge Programme for Industry. It mapped our current approaches to learning, and our knowledge on where, when and how people learn. It covered how new technology impacted on learning and the learner, and was launched at HRD 2002. This is available to purchase online in our bookstore.
  
• Go to the CIPD Bookstore
  
  

Presentations

Several presentations on the topic are available. These can be found in the website presentations area under Learning, Training and Development.

• Go to the presentations area