Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 1 Issue 2

The algorithm: as a tool of training

ALAN UNWIN

The algorithm is a modern programming technique for explaining complex procedures and complex decision‐making tasks such as fault diagnosis. It is a tool of great but, as yet…

The post office overseas parcels algorithm

In our first issue Mr E. Phillips described the Post Office system for training counter clerks. He explained that the period of initial classroom instruction does not attempt to…

Management schools and industrial training: The changing role of the technical colleges

JPJ KENNEY, PJ MARSH

Time was — and not so long ago either — when the function of the technical college in the management field was to lay on a collection of courses carried out wholly within the…

Training in Fleet Street

NOEL THOMPSON

Trade Associations are in an excellent position to influence training within an industry or a part of an industry. With the advent of the Industry Training Boards the general…

A look at the industrial training act

HERBERT PERRY

For almost a decade I have been a student of British developments in industrial relations and industrial training. During the same period I have been involved in these fields in…

The application of do‐it‐yourself training to the induction of new employees

JOHN WHITLEY

WHAT IS DO‐IT‐YOURSELF TRAINING? BASICALLY, IT IS NO MORE than a variant of on‐the‐job training. Let me hastily add, before your eyebrows rise in arch disapproval, that it often…

A look at how the new training boards have gone about their task

NANCY MORGANS

So in the present day there is only one Industrial Training Act though there are 28 industrial training boards implementing their 28 different versions of it. This is…

Films for management training

JOHN WELLENS, ALEC M HUGHES, MYRON L BROUN

THE NEED FOR GOOD MANAGEMENT TRAINING FILMS THE IMMEDIATE ROAD AHEAD IN THE TRAINING FIELD is becoming very clearly defined. There is great satisfaction with the progress made…