Does Investors in People affect organisational performance: a relevant question?

Аннотация

Purpose – Ever since the introduction of Investors in People (IiP), a management framework for high performance invented by the UK Government aimed at improving the UK’s industrial performance, there has been indistinctness about whether IiP actually improved organisational performance. The academic literature gives conflicting evidence and almost 25 years after the first exposure to IiP this issue has not been settled yet. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper the literature on the effects of IiP on organisational performance is collected and discussed, to try to give a definitive answer on the question what the effect of IiP is or should be.