1 INTRODUCTION
It is increasingly acknowledged that human resources constitute essential and vital asset of business and organization like capital and equipment resources. What fine ideas, the newest technologies, the most favourable external conditions were, without well prepared and qualified personnel it is impossible to achieve the high efficiency of work and to meet an organisation's objectives. That's why human resources become a long-term factor of competitiveness and survival of a company.
Today organisations have its own human resource departments which are responsible for all polices and activities that impact employees. The human resource department is a crucial area of business success, as talented employees are a company's most important asset. Thus, human resource executives are tasked developing strategies that ensure employees contribute to the company's success. This is a difficult challenge, given that they must also increase efficiencies and reduce operational costs while administering a mountain of recordkeeping. The human resource departments are responsible for tasks such as recruiting and attraction capable employees; evaluating, creating and administering compensation and benefits programs; training and professional development of employees.
As was written above success of organisation depends on their employees. That's why organisations should as much as possible spend time and money on training and development of their employees which result in better they will perform their jobs qualitatively better.
The following paper focuses on training and development of employees in Great Britain. The paper begins with general description of the country. Further it describes the cultural dimensions which are inherent to Great Brita ...