Employee Development Programmes
Employee Development Programmes (EDPs) are initiatives to promote learning for employees through the workplace. What sets them apart from traditional training programmes is:
 | participation is voluntary. |
| learning takes place primarily (or even exclusively) in the learners' own time. |
| participants can choose what learning to undertake with relatively few restrictions. |
| activities supported are additional to normal job-related training and development. |
| employers finance the cost of learning (in the UK this is commonly through an entitlement of between £100 and £200 per employee per year). |
Additional Information...
| History of Employee Development in the UK |
| Benefits of EDPs |
| NIACE support for EDPs |
| NIACE transnational EDP project (including motivational materials in three languages). |
| The International Consortium for Employee Development (ICED) |
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