Progress Report Number 5: Getting Things Done

Abstract

THE MOST frequently‐canvassed solution to the problem of the bulge is to persuade companies to increase their intake of craft apprentices independently of the need for them; the British Employers Confederation has actually set a target of an increase of 20 per cent during the bulge years. In this report I hope to expose this policy as a form of mental bankruptcy by describing a few of the more imaginative alternatives. But there is a second and more serious purpose: this is to examine what needs to be done to promote action. What are, or should be, the springs of action in this context? How can the skeleton of a permissive arrangement be clothed with the flesh of action? This is the really big problem to be solved. Solve this, and the bulge will fade into insignificance.

Citation

Wellens, J. (1960), "Progress Report Number 5: Getting Things Done", Education + Training, Vol. 2 No. 4, pp. 14-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb014811