Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 6 Issue 12

Assessment centres: The uses of assessment centres

MIKE VAN OUDTSHOORN

In my first article for this journal I outlined what an assessment centre is, its history and how the method works. I shall not attempt to argue here the validity of the method…

Analytical trouble shooting

HAROLD LOEW, HUGH O'NEILL

Friction and wear cost us in the UK something like £500m per annum, maintenance of plant and buildings £3000m, corrosion oyer £300m, mishandling of material a further 825m. The…

Dissmissal without warning

ALISON BROADHURST

THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1971, hurriedly if not indecently buried, introduced a major innovation into the law relating to dismissal; the notion of unfair dismissal was…

The management of training: What does it mean?

BD PRESCOTT

Training, it is often said, is the responsibility of management. In 1964, however, it was necessary to introduce the Industrial Training Act in an attempt to remedy the known…

Trade unions and the social contract: British and Swedish style

TOM GORE

The problem facing the British economy is to curb inflation, reduce the deficit on the balance of payments, now running at £4,000 million a year, raise company profits to improve…

Training the professional engineer

ADRIAN M SEAGER

THERE ARE A NUMBER OF INFLUENCES UPON THIS TYPE OF training of which we must be aware and which we must attempt to reconcile: these major influences are illustrated by figure 1.

A supervisory skills course for beqinners

FRANK BROWN

In the hospital service, where there are so many different disciplines, we have for a long time felt the need for a short course on supervisory skills. The line managers and I…