Thought Leadership

Learning and development professionals have an important contribution to make in this new and difficult climate, says Eileen Arney.

Branding it a “dementia tax” was inspired – opponents of the Conservative Party’s election manifesto railed against its fundamentally unfair proposals for dealing with the social care costs of increasing numbers of old people with dementia.

Governance needs to be about more than a set of rules. But behaviour is not easy to change, writes Professor Simon Lee.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” Albert Einstein

The Open University Business School regularly features in the media. Most recent and notable articles are listed below.

Organisations are demanding more and more from their learning functions, but is L&D up to the job?

Business performance is at risk because learning programmes have failed to keep up with globalisation, according to a new report from The Open University Business School.

Is having a workforce full of critical thinkers an impossible dream – or a nightmare to be avoided?

The rise of the global natives raises a profound challenge to progressives. How to build a mass movement and consciousness that is international, anti-capitalist and post-colonial? Where is the direct response to a right wing global movement whose populism is championing nationalism, corporate power and ethnic division?

We now have at least four generations in workplace, but do they really want different things from their development?