Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 4 Issue 4

Training for the Future: A question of objectives

John Wellens, Alison Broadhurst

a proposed strategy for training and manpower managers THE INDUSTRIAL TRAINING ACT HAS, WITHIN EIGHT YEARS, produced great and identifiable gains in the training of the national…

OPERATION VULCAN 2: The nature of skill

Operation Vulcan is a survey of the state of the art in training for manual, craft or physical skills. This is the traditional area of training expertise: companies and countries…

Job‐specific management training: An experimental approach

JOHN DEEKS

For many years now there have been numerous articles in the personnel and training journals exhorting readers to evaluate their management training. But few such articles have…

Training for METRICATION NUMBER 4: TRAINING OF PRODUCTION STAFF

R BADEN HELLARD, JV CONNOLLY

The first three sections of this series have considered the tasks of training in a logical, and indeed, in the chronological sequence in which the matter should proceed up to the…

The dis technique: A consultant's course

AB JOHNSON

Management has been defined as deciding what people should do and getting them to do it. Both aspects rely on interactive skill, since the information to decide must invariably be…

Managing the Training Function: Using Instructional Technology and Systems Concepts

CHRISTOPHER GANE

THE PLACE OF CHRISTOPHER GANE IN THE TRAINING WORLD IS pretty hard to define, though it is certainly unique. He has, for instance, played a major part in popularising the…

Imposition or Evolution

PAT DALEY, CHRIS McGIVERN

In our writings so far, we've dealt in some detail with the development of managers, and the functioning of problem‐solving groups. We have paid close attention to the similar…