Choice has no corporate or geographic boundaries. Listen to your people . Great competitors are born from previous staff members who couldn't get anyone to listen. Upward communications from the coal face is hugely discouraged as it breaks the corporate chain of command. Conventional wisdom says that corporate communication has only liquid properties - it can only cascade downwards.
Companies are like marriages - the ones that work talk to each other .
Most probably most vital chose companies which combine a learning ethic with a training ethic. The difference is that training has a financial cost. Those are often substantial invisible hurdles put in the way of upward mobility. Or, as it is often put, FIFO- fit in or fiddle off. As Michael Hammer says - a kind word with a gun in your hand is far more effective than a kind word.