Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 7 Issue 4

Training in the economic facts of life

JOHN WELLENS

Perhaps the biggest challenge facing the training movement today is the current assumption that society would function better if only there was a wider understanding of how it…

The Hudson Report and education

TOM GORE

THE HUDSON INSTITUTE EUROPE, IN ITS RECENT REPORT, THE UNITED KINGDOM IN 1980, has taken the pulse of the so‐called ‘sick man of Europe’ and has reached a sombre conclusion. The…

Manpower Development Service: Consultants to small and medium sized employers

GARY B HANSEN, MARION BENTLEY, JOHN R CRAGUN

This article is based on a paper presented at an international conference in Norway. Having read in ICT about the work of the Small Firms Management Centre at the Sheffield…

No Truck with the unions

ALISON BROADHURST

A recent case in the High Court has drawn attention to some legislation which, whilst it has been in force for a very long time, is rarely invoked in the courts today: the Truck…

North Sea Oil: Technical manpower needs

DAVID OWEN

Who will train the professional and technician grades of staff that will be needed in the next few years to develop the North Sea oil fields? So far all the signs are that it will…

Training in South Africa

HC WOODHOUSE

Take a bit of history Prior to the Second World War industrial training in South Africa meant the training of white artisans and officials for employment in the gold and coal…

Organisation behaviour: The use of an organisational analysis for increasing individual and organisational effectiveness

DAVID TUFFIELD

FOR SOME TIME NOW IT SEEMS TO ME THAT TRAINING HAS BEEN caught in a number of vicious circles whereby the increased internal efficiency of training events (be they courses…