Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 19 Issue 5

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Table of contents

Safety in Team Building — The Contracting Process

Neil Oliver, John Langford

The process of team building may be inhibited by feelings of personal risk and insecurity. The individual needs to feel safe before becoming an effective team member, and…

Competence, Achievement and Qualifications

George Tolley

The reform of vocational qualifications is now under way. Britain's workforce is seriously underqualified and the need for competence, properly assessed and accredited, and…

Self‐development for Women Managers in the Retail Industry

Marlene Spero

A programme of self‐development for women managers was introduced by a major retail multiple aware of low morale among its few women executives. None of the selected group…

Use and Abuse of Assertion Training for Management Development

Roger Bennett

Good and bad justifications for Assertion Training are examined, and it is emphasised that it is crucial trainees are selected by need, not status. AT must be treated as…

The Role of the MBA in the UK

Bernard James

Two recently published reports — “The Making of British Managers” by John Constable and Roger McCormick, and “The Making of Managers” by Charles Handly — are compared, and their…

The Education and Training of British Managers

Alan Mumford

Two reports, “The Making of Managers” by Charles Handy and “The Making of British Managers” by John Constable and Roger McCormick, were published in April 1987. In a commentary on…

Learning by Experience — for the Trainer Too!

John Teire, Angela Chris

A personnel manager was faced with the task of setting up a management development programme for staff who were facing drastic changes in company operations. With little…

Cover of Industrial and Commercial Training

ISSN:

0019-7858

Online date, start – end:

1969

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editors:

  • Dr Siham Lekchiri
  • Dr Adriano Solidoro