Individual staff development
28 August 2012
Q: I want to develop my purchasing people – but frankly I don’t think all of them are up to it. This makes me feel guilty! Is everybody capable of development?
A: Christopher Barrat, director of the Greystone Partnership, writes: This is a dilemma facing a lot of purchasing groups. There are two basic causes for the problem: first, the sheer spread of roles required within a modern purchasing department; and second, the rather mixed “gene pool” that many managers inherit with the job.
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