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Viewpoint: Time is not hours to waste
Time is unique. One cannot buy it, rent it, store it, hire it, stretch it. Further, it is irreplaceable and perishable. To‐day is all we have to work with. The past is…
Service with a smile
Intermark Public Relations LtdIt doesn't matter how well employees in industry and commerce are trained in product knowledge and the skills of their trade if, at the end of the day, they alienate or offend the…
Management training — the next ten years
Terry FarnsworthDuring the past decade management training has emerged as a major specialism in its own right; no longer is it seen as the poor and somewhat effete relation of its lusty elder…
With performance aids, who needs training?
Lyndon Jones, Denys PageIn many situations improvements in training can be facilitated without investment therein. Among the alternatives to training are:
Case study using behaviour modification
J.P. NaughtonA case study using behaviour modification in a health care setting was conducted in a patient care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. The work productivity of the two…
BTEC is launched
Neale RaineBTEC is about education and training for employment. It has been said that education is merely training done well; so I am particularly pleased that Sir Keith Joseph, Secretary of…
ABE SUPPLEMENT
Lyndon Jones and Ken Cropper paid a successful visit to Hong Kong in November 1983. Among the educational centres visited were:
Student section
Managers are having to be much more careful in dealing with their human resources than ever before. Discuss.
Careers:: TRAINING
The Government's major White Paper Training for Jobs announces reforms in two key areas of training. First, to make training and vocational education more relevant to employment…
Careers:: TOPICS
The five annual Design Council Molins Design Prize awards were presented in London last month, and four are to be developed and used by companies. Molins plc sponsor the scheme…
Careers:: COURSES
The Open University held its annual national press conference in London at the end of January and paraded a selection of 5,232 graduates for the current year. 12 per cent of these…
The Ford approach to training organisation
Robert SheldonIn order to remove a common misunderstanding, I must begin by drawing the distinction between Ford Motor Company and its dealers. They are not one and the same. Ford Motor Company…
Learning to write right
Edgar Baker CBEThe Editor has invited me to contribute over the coming months a few articles on the subject of correct English. We begin this month with notes on spelling, for this is an aspect…
Education and training — survival and advancement
George TolleyIn a rapidly changing world we need to run very fast to stay in the same place. But most people do not want to stay in the same place; they need therefore to run that much faster…
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