Isn workforce development just another word for education and training or staff development?
No. The focus of education, training and staff development is much narrower than that of workforce development. Education, training and staff development focus on factors that impact on the individual worker, which addresses only a fraction of applicable factors. Workforce development is still concerned with innovative and effective ways to improve efficacy of education and training. Education, training and staff development are necessary, but not sufficient, to achieve behaviour and organisational change. Workforce development has a broad focus. It starts at the highest level of the systems surrounding the workforce. Workforce development incorporates policies, systems and structures which create and sustain the work environment.
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