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Operation Phoenix 21: A study of living and working in a technological society

John Wellens

Industrial and Commercial Training

ISSN: 0019-7858

Publication date: 1 April 1983

Abstract

In my instalment Phoenix 20, in the February issue of this journal, I made some reference to the MSC and the conditions of service of those who staff it. I referred to the fact that the jobs in MSC are seen as reserved, in the main, for career civil servants and that the training specialists recruited from outside the civil service have what many regard as an inferior status and that this inferior status is such as to influence the efficiency of the service offered by MSC. In other contexts and on several other occasions I have referred to the bureaucrats having taken over the training business in the UK:

Citation

Wellens, J. (1983), "Operation Phoenix 21: A study of living and working in a technological society", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. 15 No. 4, pp. 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb003938

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1983, MCB UP Limited

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