Two-thirds of organisations believed that Investors had contributed to an improvement in business performance

Two-thirds of organisations believed that Investors had contributed to an improvement in business performance.The researchers say that a final link between involvement with the scheme and improved business performance has yet to be made, but they are confident that Investors is having an impact.There is one potential problem. The study says staff believe that their employers’ commitment to training has improved. However, it also finds some employees who do not feel well-informed about the initiative, and resistance to the idea from managers and employees at about one in four organisations.. At a crossroads at the bottom of a magnificent gorge, there stood a convoy of tractors and small trucks, some hauling trailers heaped with blankets, personal possessions and family members. The column was scattered across the road, like a parade about to get under way

The men in the lead did not know where to go.

They argued among themselves on which direction to take; which way to flee from the Croatian army which they were certain would be rolling towards them with murderous intent at any moment.
The column – part of an exodus of 13,000 people, the largest movement of Serb refugees of the Balkan war – had come just down the road from Drvar, now the first line of Serbian defence against Croatian advances into western Bosnia.Everyone in the former Yugoslavia knows better than to sit and wait for the opposing side to arrive. They have learned the lessons of Srebrenica and Zepa, and before that of Vukovar, Medak, Ahmici, Prijedor and all the other places whose names have become synonymous with slaughter. After four years of brutal conflict, the rules of war here are clear. It was the turn of the Serbs to flee.This is what the Bosnian Serbs do not want journalists to see.

The Bosnian Serb border guard who inadvertently let us pass Bijelina to start a 200- mile journey across Bosnia was far enough away from the war not to have any idea of what we would witness. Defeat is a new and uncomfortable experience for Bosnian Serbs and the panic being displayed by their people is particularly shameful to soldiers who for years have survived on little more than their own legends of invincibility.But signs of doubt are starting to take hold of some soldiers. “Don’t believe everything that you here from these people,” said one policeman in blue combat fatigues pointing to some peasants at a checkpoint near Drvar “They are afraid and are panicking. Everything is all right,” he said, pausing before adding: “I think.”At the fleeing convoy, at Mrkonjic Grad, north of Drvar, a Bosnian Serb military policeman was trying to maintain order when our car, travelling in the opposite direction, stopped to ask for the best route to the besieged breakaway Croatian Serb capital of Knin The men fell dumbstruck.”Knin?” asked one man incredulously.