Further employee development can be encouraged by promoting promising staff from within the workforce when openings arise. Competitive exams or tests are the tools that management should use to ensure the right candidate gets the job.

“If you stay in the mind-set of 15th century Europe, the future of Latin is extremely bright,” said Nicholas Ostler, the author of a language history called Empires of the Word who is writing a history of Latin. “If you stay in the mind-set of the 20th century world, the future of English is extremely bright.”