CMI (Chartered Management Institute):
Apprenticeships: The industrious revolution
5 July 2016
Petra Wilton, CMI's director of strategy and external affairs, says the degree apprenticeships will help to meet expected demand for one million more managers by 2020 and raise professional skills. CMI says four out of five UK bosses are 'accidental managers', who are promoted on the basis of their expertise in their job, but have little training in managing a team or a department. ''This programme is, for the first time, giving funding and legitimacy to driving high-level skills and linking it to professional registration and recognition,'' Wilton says. ''It's a transformational step for the government to recognise this across a broader range of disciplines.'' CMI also hopes to introduce a Masters Degree Apprenticeship (level 7) and programmes at level 3 (team leader) and level 5 (operations manager). Wilton sees weaknesses in leadership and management as a factor behind the UK's poor productivity performance. A team of academics including John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, interviewed 14,000 employees around the world and found that British workers rated their supervisors lower than those in countries such as the US, Germany and Japan.
This article was published by CMI (Chartered Management Institute) on July 5, 2016
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Related links
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage
Management Practices and Organisational Structures Research webpage