Personnel Today: 'Critics question value of leadership training'
Published 13 October 2004
The UK's Personnel Today magazine quotes Lancaster University Management School's Professor John Burgoyne in an article that questions the value of a number of corporate leadership schemes. The magazine's Quentin Reade and Daniel Thomas write:
"John Burgoyne, professor of management learning at the University of Lancaster and Henley Management College, said: 'Some pays off, much of it is waste,' adding: 'We can get more precise. You don't have to spend more, you have to spend it more accurately.'
"Speaking at the Institute of Leadership and Management's People at the Heart of Leadership conference, Burgoyne said organisations want quantifiable measures rather than theoretical conclusions.
"'The leadership movement needs to become evidence-based rather than faith-based,' he said. 'It will either embrace the challenge, or be replaced by something hard-nosed.'"
