Journal of European Industrial Training: Volume 4 Issue 3

Developing a System's Internal Capacity for Change

Harvey Day, Lindsay Roth

Working to bring about Planned System Change is a difficult task in large organizations, regardless of the change agents' levels of skill. To bring about the change from the…

An Action Learning Programme for Supervisors

David Boddy

This paper describes a relatively unusual approach to the development of supervisors. The programme took place in a rapidly growing factory manufacturing semi‐conductors, and was…

A Study Assignment Approach to Training

David Despres

National Westminster Bank, in common with all organisations which “grow their own managers”, is required to train certain of the staff to attain a wide ranging knowledge of the…

A Conceptual Basis for Management Training: —A Company Application

Patrick Bridgwater

The partnership of a chemical manufacturing company and a management training centre has resulted in the creation of a series of management training courses which combine some…

Company Personnel Practices and Women's Attitudes to their Jobs

Margaret Oldham

The relationship between workers' attitudes and withdrawal from work (by absence and/or voluntary termination) has been the subject of innumerable studies over the past 60 years…