The Investors in People standard is a business improvement tool designed to advance an organisation's performance through its employees. It helps organisations to improve performance and realise objectives through the management and development of their people.
Learning Outcomes
- Plan - developing strategies to improve the performance of the organisation
- Do - taking action to improve the performance of the organisation
- Review - evaluating the impact of its investment in people on the performance of the organisation
- Each principle has clear indicators underpinning them
Benefits
- Better morale and a motivated workforce
- Greater profits and outputs
- Training activity is more closely linked to business needs
- Impetus to other improvement and quality initiatives
- Customer satisfaction
- Positive publicity for the organisation
- Recognition and job satisfaction
- Better communication on training and development issues
- A good and supportive working environment
- Improved skills, increased responsibility and involvement and better career development opportunities
- Pride in belonging to a successful organisation
- Good quality training where its needed