Another step up the ladder or another foot in the grave? Re-evaluating the role of formal and informal training in the career development process within Barclays Bank, 1945–80

Hollow, M; Vik, PM

Abstract

This paper uses a combination of archival sources and oral testimonies to evaluate the role that training (both internal and external) played in determining the promotion prospects of those employed by Barclays Bank during the post-World War II era. In addition to this, it also looks at the extent to which less formal training and learning practices continued to play a role in the career development process within Barclays. Ultimately,
what it suggests is that, whilst moves certainly we
re made to modernize and formalize the Bank’s staff development program during this period, there continued to be a strong attachment to many of the conservative and
paternalist assumptions that had been dominant in the years prior to World War II.

Citation

Hollow, M., & Vik, P. (2016). Another step up the ladder or another foot in the grave? Re-evaluating the role of formal and informal training in the career development process within Barclays Bank, 1945–80. Management and Organizational History, 11(4), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2016.1230068

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 23, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016
• Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 1, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 15, 2018
• Journal: Management and Organizational History
• Print ISSN: 1744-9359
• Electronic ISSN: 1744-9367
• Publisher: Routledge
• Volume: 11
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 345-363
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2016.1230068
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449359.2016.1230068
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