Management Technical Education, and Training as a Public Concern in Britain, France and Germany

Abstract

Greater recognition should be given to the importance of national education and training patterns as determinants of industrial performance. But it would be wrong to interpret such patterns merely as more or less rational responses to the imperatives of the industrial world. Political factors in a country's social history can be shown to exert a powerful influence on the evolution of the system by which manpower is trained and qualified for work in manufacturing. They account for a lot of national institutional differences, and they have to be borne in mind when discussing have to be borne in mind when discusing possibilities of improving performance by changing institutions. This is argued with particular reference to the situation in Britain.

Citation

Sorge, A. (1979), "Management Technical Education, and Training as a Public Concern in Britain, France and Germany", Management Research News, Vol. 2 No. 1, pp. 2-11. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027718