Management training and development in Statistics Canada

Management Training and Development in Statistics Canada is a description of the objectives, methods and underlying principles that the agency has successfully adopted to inspire its recent training policy. The paper stresses the fact that training must be driven by agency-wide objectives – in the case of Canada the two most important objectives being the ageing of its personnel with the concomitant problem of succession and the need to increase the versatility of its staff in view of successive budgetary cuts. The paper describes three types of measures: formal training, planned rotation, and involvement of management trainees in the solution of actual management problems. The paper also describes recruitment measures that place the accent on academic excellence of recruits as a means to increase the attractiveness of the agency as an example of solid professional achievement.