Over-50s Seen as 'Poor Return on Training Investment'

[29 January 2007 - TrainingZone - UK] The over 50s, particularly women, are more likely to miss out on training opportunities in the workplace than younger male employees because HR managers see older women as offering a poor return on investment. That was the result of research carried out into age and gender bias in the allocation of training and development budgets by Almuth McDowall from Surrey University. Working with HR managers in 48 companies, Dr McDowall used a series of fictional vignettes to test out their decision making when allocating funding for training and development. More