Back on the job

Abstract

“The times they are a changing!” The song tells us. Training is often called a “change agent”, but it is questionable whether training is, at the moment, in the vanguard or the guards van. As a consultant in organisation development, I am called upon for advice on many issues. Recently I was asked to comment upon a booklet produced by the training department of a major manufacturing concern. The title was: TRAINING FOR CHANGE. The work outlined the “philosophy of the training department” and it detailed some of the current activities and courses. In general these could be described as preparing people to be changed. The focus therefore was upon sessions detailing the need for change, working with people, Transactional Analysis and similar. As I read it, a conviction grew: “this is not what training is about, nor is it a reflection of what has been happening in training in the past three or four years.”

Citation

O'NEILL, H. (1981), "Back on the job", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 13 No. 11, pp. 382-384. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003860