Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 21 Issue 2

Subject:

Table of contents

How People Learn on Management Courses

Jonathan Coates

The concepts of the learning cycles and learning styles as definedby Honey and Mumford are discussed. Participants′ reactions aredescribed, and some of the obstacles to learning…

Business Strategies and Management Development – The ICL Experience

Andrew Mayo

How ICL identified the need for a new “mind set” isdescribed and the action taken to create it. A programme of training wasinstituted, which was unusual in being both mandatory…

Turning Bad Times into Good Times‐And Good Times into Better Ones

Robin Snell

Four main types of learning pattern are identified: solo problemsolving, collaboration, modelling and other participant observation, andthe skills involved in coping with each are…

Making Customer Care Work‐What Happens to the Training?

Richard Davis

Commercial objectives should be directed towards long‐term customersatisfaction in order to succeed. Training will often fail unlessorganisational issues are examined first…

Training in the Smaller Business – Investment or Expense?

Robert Blackburn, Alan Hankinson

Two British surveys are examined which show skills shortages insmaller companies. The reasons why little training is undertaken inthese firms are set out, the main one of which…

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