It's up to management

Abstract

The author is concerned to make the point that most of the excuses for the poor economic performance of the UK do not hold water. He argues a two‐fold thesis: that the failures are mainly failures of management; and that the cure lies in the hands of managers. Underlying this view is the very important principle that training, if it is to be effective, must take account of socio‐political factors and that managers and trainers have a legitimate interest in economic, social and political matters and that they cannot formulate meaningful objectives without it. At the present time a division of opinion is appearing within the training movement on where to apply the country's maximum training effort. The MSC, inits discussion document A New Training Initiative, argues for applying it at the lower end of the job spectrum: with apprentices, adult retrainees and school‐leavers. The alternative view, implied here, is that the maximum effort needs to be concentrated at the upper end of the spectrum.

Citation

O'NEILL, H. (1981), "It's up to management", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 13 No. 8, pp. 278-281. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003848