Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 4 Issue 3

Training for the Future

JOHN WELLENS, Lady Williams, James G Stewart

This is the official title of the long‐awaited consultative document, published on 1st February 1972, in which the government presented its proposals for the reorganisation of…

OPERATION VULCAN 1: behavioural aspects of the instructor's job

JOHN WELLENS

Recently I was addressing a meeting of workshop instructors. I drew them into a discussion of the behavioural sciences and their relevance to the trainer. Their view surprised me…

Not for Bread Alone

LYNDA KING TAYLOR

Job enrichment, as a concept, has been around for some time: it has enjoyed an enthusiastic and sympathetic reception amongst trainers everywhere. But what has been missing, so…

IMPOSITION OR EVOLUTION?: USING THE ON‐GOING MANAGEMENT SITUATION AS THE TRAINING VEHICLE

PAT DALEY, CHRIS McGIVERN

In our previous articles we have described what we have learned about applying the discovery approach to training in social skill areas. We have spent some time discussing what…

Training for METRICATION NUMBER 3

R BADEN HELLARD, JV CONNOLLY

Assuming that the stage reached in the previous article has been successfully completed ie, that top management has prepared its policy for change to metric working the most…

Quantitative aspects of management: Some details of a post‐graduate and post‐experience course

GRANT OGILVIE

My views are based on the experience of teaching statistics and operational research to a large number of students with varying qualifications ranging from no formal education…

Polytechnics in the '70s

THOMAS GORE

The grand design for higher education in the seventies has not yet emerged. The overriding priority of the Secretary of State for Education and Science is the improvement of…