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Discusses the research opportunities brought about by the adoption of category management in the food industry and suggests reasons why category management might be of interest to academics. Reviews contemporary research and proposes a multidisciplinary research agenda which crosses the academic‐industrial interface. Suggests four principal research themes: beneficiaries and benefits of category management; the process of organizational change; the management of categories; and the implications of category management adoption. Discusses these themes in the context of research already undertaken and details areas meriting closer investigation.

The article examines how purchase involvement theory can be used to assist marketing management in making more effective marketing mix decisions. The relationships between product purchase involvement and its antecedents are analysed, using examples from the Greek market for cheese. Mechanisms for measuring purchase involvement are identified. Product profiles are constructed for varieties of cheese and their usefulness as a segmentation tool is discussed. Implications of the results for marketing management and areas for further research are identified.

This is the book many of us need and have been waiting for. Graduate studies are a transformative educational experience in teacher's lives. Exhausted teachers sitting down for an evening's master's level course after a day of teaching often say they are rejuvenated by the opportunity to reflect on their hectic days. Doctoral graduates often speak of their doctoral programs as intellectually life changing. In the idiom of this book, doctoral graduates feel they have retold a story of themselves as educators. But, inevitably, the real test begins. How to relive this retold story as many take up the role of teacher educator. Their students' journeys are altogether different than their own transformative journey through graduate school. Their students are under pressure to successfully take up the job of school teacher. Their landscape of teaching and learning is altogether unlike the professional development landscape of experienced teachers, and it is altogether unlike the teaching/learning landscape of university level graduate studies. As newly minted graduates with a new teacher education job at hand realize, what to do with one's retold story is a puzzle. They ask, “How can I use narrative inquiry in my teacher education classes? No one else is teaching it in my faculty and all the courses seem to be about content and teaching method.” Depending on circumstances, some add “What do I do about the new school policies that I really don't understand but which don't seem to fit what I'm thinking?” What seemed so transformative in graduate school now seems to present a mountainous hurdle. It is a hurdle in the sense that this is the moment to begin reliving the retold story.

The Health Organisation of the League of Nations have issued a Report on the Physiological Bases of Nutrition by the Technical Commission appointed by the Health Committee. The Commission was appointed after a general report on nutrition had been presented by Dr. E. Burnet and Dr. W. R. Aykroyd. Its labours have been conducted in the light of the proposal of Mr. Bruce (Australian delegate), who urged “the necessity of marrying agriculture and public health in the interests of the latter.” The Commission declares that it is in agreement with the conclusions of the Burnet and Aykroyd Report that deficiencies in important nutrients are a common feature of modern diets and that these deficiencies usually occur in the protective foods (foods rich in minerals and vitamins) rather than in the energy‐giving foods (proteins, fats and carbohydrates). An adult, male or female, living an ordinary everyday life in a temperate climate and not engaged in manual work is taken as the basis on which the needs of other age‐groups are reckoned. An allowance of 2,400 calories net per day is considered adequate to meet the requirements of such an individual. The following supplements for muscular activity should be added to the basic requirements in the class mentioned:—Light work: up to 50 calories per hour of work. Moderate work: up to 50–100 calories per hour of work. Hard work: up to 100–200 calories per hour of work. Very hard work: up to 200 calories and upwards per hour of work. Requirements of pregnant women, nursing mothers, and children are dealt with, and it is urged that, in practice, the protein intake for all adults should not fall below 1 gramme of protein per kilogramme of body‐weight. The protein should be derived from different sources, and it is desirable that a part of the protein should be of animal origin. During growth, pregnancy, and lactation some animal protein is essential, and in the growing period it should form a large proportion of the total protein.

This article seeks to review the current state of workplace learning evaluation, to set out the rationale for evaluation along with the barriers that practitioners face when seeking to assess the effectiveness of training and development. Finally, it aims to propose a scientifically robust and practitioner friendly approach to evaluation.

This article is based on a multi disciplinary literature review.

Despite the substantial investment in workplace learning there is a paucity of evaluation activity. There are a wide range of reasons for this including capacity and capability issues, lack of supportive organisational environment and a lack of effective measurement instruments. There is also a large research to practice gap. The starting point for evaluation approaches should be the needs of practitioners. Latest research on training suggests that effective evaluation approaches should adopt a stakeholder and systems approach and collect corroborative data.

This article presents research findings, based on a multidisciplinary literature review, on the factors that inhibit effective workplace learning evaluation, sets out a novel evaluation framework and approach, grounded in a conceptual model of workplace learning.

The findings seek to assist practitioners such as learning and development professionals undertake more robust and efficient evaluations. The article also addresses the research to practice gap.

This article presents a novel approach to workplace learning evaluation.

All seventeen had graciously agreed to my proposal to gather for a small conference to seek consensus. A generous grant from the Pierian Press Foundation would cover all of our expenses for a long weekend at a resort hotel; the only condition of the grant was that we offer our results to Reference Services Review for first publication. Over the past five years each of the seventeen had in turn accepted my challenge to answer the following question:

This paper seeks to argue that workplace learning evaluation theory and practice is still an emergent field and that this creates a number of challenges for practitioners and researchers alike.

This is a descriptive paper based on a critical review of existing approaches and the research literature.

While programme evaluation has a long history, workplace learning evaluation is yet to establish itself as a distinct field. This has a number of consequences including the lack of a single or settled view on how workplace learning should be evaluated or what specific aspects of learning should be investigated.

The need to demonstrate a return on investment in organisational learning is as pressing as ever. To become more effective training evaluation methods need to be grounded in a theory. This article aims to provide an informed perspective on the current state of workplace evaluation along with insights into how evaluation can be placed on firmer theoretical foundations in order to produce robust findings in a practitioner friendly way.

This paper provides original insights into the development of workplace evaluation approaches and the challenges the field faces.

Date: 26 October 1995 Venue: The National Motorcycle Museum, Solihull, West Midlands The above Conference will consist of Soldering and Brazing sessions which will run in parallel, with the opportunity for delegates to transfer between sessions. In each case a keynote speaker will set the scene by reviewing progress in these industries over the last 25 years. Thereafter the focus of the sessions will be to discuss the evolving technologies which will shape the industry over the next 25 years.