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TRAINING: Investment or gamble?
ALAN COOKFew people would contest the statement that ‘training is an investment’. It is an investment in the future, one which it is essential for industry to undertake in order to meet…
Executive skills in the sub‐culture of small firms
DJ LEESmall firms and their training problems have been the subject of much writing and investigation lately. Increasingly, these problems are seen to centre around one basic problem…
OPERATION VULCAN 9: Job analysis as a training instrument part 2
JOHN WELLENSIn Part I I made the point that job analysis, used as a training instrument, can be carried out at a variety of different levels or depths. I gave several examples of job analysis…
Attitudes to colleges
G BEVANA large part, if not most, of a firm's external training takes place in a college of further education. The South East Scotland branch of the IPM recently surveyed the attitudes…
Training the experienced manager
BRIAN LUSHERThis article recounts my experience in starting up systematic management training in an organisation. Previously, there was no systematic approach, although there were a number of…
Robens: A missed opportunity?
ALISON BROADHURSTAfter two years' study, the Robens Committee on Safety and Health at Work has reported its findings. Its terms of reference required it to examine the existing statutory…
A new management diploma
C BENSONA new diploma in industrial management — which is expected to receive AI grading — is to be introduced by the Institution of Works Managers, following a fundamental re‐shaping of…
Higher education: Planning and cost containment
THOMAS GOREIn May 1970 I argued in this journal that cost effectiveness should dominate the planning of higher education in the seventies, and in November 1971 outlined steps for its…
Effective communication: The trainer's role
TED BOTTOMLEYI picked up a local newspaper and read that the Town Clerk was protesting about the imminent closure of the town's railway station. Because of the socio‐economic nature of the…
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- Dr Siham Lekchiri
- Dr Adriano Solidoro