The Contribution of Skills to Business Performance

This report explores the literature linking skills with business performance, and also the wider HR and High Performance literature and studies on engagement.

It highlights a wide range of studies that provide evidence of benefits for individuals and organisations, from skills, training and development.

The literature on high performance workplaces and practices also shows a considerable weight of evidence that a range of HR practices are linked to organisational performance, and are predominantly adopted by organisations seeking to produce differentiated goods or services.