Youth Training Scheme. The most important event in the manpower field over the past four weeks has been the publication of the MSC plans for its Youth Training Scheme which came…
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Youth Training Scheme. The most important event in the manpower field over the past four weeks has been the publication of the MSC plans for its Youth Training Scheme which came out on 4 May. An element of confusion has been introduced into the topic owing to the fact that there are two top‐level bodies with their fingers in the pie: on the one hand there is the Government speaking through the Employment Minister and his Department; on the other there is the ‘independent’ Manpower Services Commission. Both speak with immense authority though it is the Government, in the person of Norman Tebbit, which has the ultimate upper hand.
The new Rolls‐Royce compressor test facility at Derby was recently formally inaugurated by Mr. Norman Tebbit, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. This facility is the most…
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The new Rolls‐Royce compressor test facility at Derby was recently formally inaugurated by Mr. Norman Tebbit, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry. This facility is the most advanced of its kind in Europe and is being used to test compressors for Rolls‐Royce's latest civil and military engines.
By building upon the points at the end of Norman Tebbit's recent article, this article describes the joint IPM/IPA publications on employee involvement.
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By building upon the points at the end of Norman Tebbit's recent article, this article describes the joint IPM/IPA publications on employee involvement.
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I first came to this conference just four years ago. It was, I recall, almost the first major speaking engagement after my appointment as Chairman of the Manpower Services…
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I first came to this conference just four years ago. It was, I recall, almost the first major speaking engagement after my appointment as Chairman of the Manpower Services Commission. It was certainly the first occasion since Norman Tebbit had announced the introduction of the Youth Training Scheme. Indeed, as I recall, that was the major subject of our debate that day — would we be able to put in place a national training scheme for hundreds of thousands of young people? Would we have enough employers, enough trainers, enough time?
This contribution, to put it simply, is what the Department of Employment wishes to say to employers about the New Training Initiative. So far the DoE has not made much effort to…
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This contribution, to put it simply, is what the Department of Employment wishes to say to employers about the New Training Initiative. So far the DoE has not made much effort to communicate directly with employers but on this occasion it has sought the co‐operation of publishers to get the message across. This occasion can, therefore be seen as both unique and a new departure. It inevitably covers some of the same ground as the previous article on the MSC draft proposals but we have published it nevertheless. What is interesting and relevant is that the DoE should be appealing to employers direct and independently of the MSC. In recent years Ministers of Labour have left the initiative to the MSC and this occasion marks a turning point of the Minister taking responsibility back into his own hands. If this is part of the Tebbit philosophy it is a wise move. Without any doubt, and one of the reasons for us publishing it, the main interest is the fact that it commits the Government in public to the reform of apprenticeship — a thing no other Government has dared do — and that it sets a dead‐line upon it. In succeeding issues of this journal we shall be featuring changes in apprenticeship and this article will serve as a starting point. The passages picked out in bold type are our own choices of emphasis and do not appear in the original document.
First presented at a conference earlier in 1983, this article raises a number of points concerning government objectives in industrial relations.
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First presented at a conference earlier in 1983, this article raises a number of points concerning government objectives in industrial relations.
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LESS than three weeks after Sir Geoffrey Howe presented his Budget to a packed House of Commons and a population fearful of what he might demand from them it becomes evident that…
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LESS than three weeks after Sir Geoffrey Howe presented his Budget to a packed House of Commons and a population fearful of what he might demand from them it becomes evident that it was a help (as well as a pointer) to better things to come.
THAT the intransigence of a minority, maybe, but a very forceful minority of workers in Britain is slowly but surely strangling the economy and with it, their own future may be…
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THAT the intransigence of a minority, maybe, but a very forceful minority of workers in Britain is slowly but surely strangling the economy and with it, their own future may be hard to believe; but incontrovertible evidence is there for all to see.
Stop the Merry‐Go‐Round; I Want to Get Off By now readers of this journal will be familiar with the notion that when the Government has controversial proposals to put forward in…
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Stop the Merry‐Go‐Round; I Want to Get Off By now readers of this journal will be familiar with the notion that when the Government has controversial proposals to put forward in the employment field it releases them about half an hour before Parliament goes into recess. It's a clever move despite the fact that it is getting a bit predictable and monotonous. And it has happened once more: this tactic reached a new high in the few days before the Summer Recess with such goodies as The Open Tech Task Group Report, the Job‐Splitting Scheme, the Community Work Scheme, together with more snippets of useful information about the mammoth Youth Training Scheme. In our business an avalanche of paper of such dimensions is usually referred to as an ‘information overload’; to the layman it will usually be described as creating ‘mental indigestion’. Either way it is beginning to create a new problem to employers, even to specialists in the field of employment and state intervention in it. The situation is being made too complex for it to be handled efficiently by those people who are called upon to make the necessary company decisions to implement all the obligations being placed upon industry and business. These are already‐busy people under pressure from all manner of features of an economy under severe strain.
Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover…
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Since the first Volume of this Bibliography there has been an explosion of literature in all the main areas of business. The researcher and librarian have to be able to uncover specific articles devoted to certain topics. This Bibliography is designed to help. Volume III, in addition to the annotated list of articles as the two previous volumes, contains further features to help the reader. Each entry within has been indexed according to the Fifth Edition of the SCIMP/SCAMP Thesaurus and thus provides a full subject index to facilitate rapid information retrieval. Each article has its own unique number and this is used in both the subject and author index. The first Volume of the Bibliography covered seven journals published by MCB University Press. This Volume now indexes 25 journals, indicating the greater depth, coverage and expansion of the subject areas concerned.