Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 43 Issue 1

Aligning leadership development for general managers with global strategy: the Bristol‐Myers Squibb story

This paper aims to describe an innovative, blended learning approach to global general manager (GM) development at Bristol‐Myers Squibb that encompasses the career lifecycle from…

Leadership development in a global environment: lessons learned from one of the world's largest employers

The purpose of the paper is to share best practices from global logistics leader, UPS, for approach overhauling a company's global training, leadership development and succession…

The four challenges

Changing the way organizations change has become the fourth and perhaps most pressing challenge every organization faces today. This insightful and practical paper aims to…

Improving worker morale through the use of appreciative inquiry

The purpose of this paper is to examine appreciative inquiry (AI) as an organizational development approach that aligns with Arab cultural factors to address the issue of employee…

Training for results: innovative synergy between learning and business performance

The purpose of this paper is to reveal a very result‐oriented and successful method of management training.

Business training for foreign students in UK

This paper seeks to highlight the differences foreign personnel undergoing business training in the UK may encounter because of the different teaching and learning environments in…

The hows and whys of group mentoring

This paper seeks to examine the methodologies for developing a group mentoring component as an add‐on to an existing or new corporate mentoring program.

Stimulating training motivation using the right training characteristic

The purpose of this paper is to provide human resource practitioners with practical information on the characteristics of a training programme that stimulates training motivation.

Employees get the message on the environment

Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World

Prism workers learn lean-manufacturing skills

Ashurst graduates get language and cultural-awareness skills

Portakabin signs sales-training contract

Drivers Direct reaches training milestone

Islamic bankers’ tests available online

Team Roles at Work (2nd edition)

Employees get to grips with “fantastical escapism”

ERIKS delivers customer savings through training

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Hillarys training is a blinding success

Training boost for kgb agents