Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 12 Issue 5

Management style

John Wellens

Management style is associated with McGregor and his Theory X‐Theory Y, which he introduced in 1960. Comparatively little change in ideas about preferred styles took place…

Character counts at work: Differences between Improvers and Non‐improvers

EILEEN SAGAR

When young people start work in unskilled jobs variations in their competence are soon apparent. The key point is that these variations are seldom in job skills but usually in the…

training the polyvalent manager: Where British Management Training Lags Behind The Rest of EUROPE

JUDY LOWE

When Britain became a member of the EEC in 1973 the impact on managerial practice was neither immediate nor obvious. British multinationals continued to function on a global…

Feedback in social skills training

TONY FRASER, KERI PHILLIPS

In the article ‘Approaches to Social Skills Training’ we outlined three levels at which social skills training can be conducted in terms of learning by Thinking, Doing and…

Direct trainers : Comment on the Second Report of the Training of Trainers Committee

MICHAEL POPE, ERIC KENDRICK

The MSC recently approved and published the second and final report of Geoffrey Bostock's Training of Trainers Committee. Under the title of DIRECT TRAINERS it focuses on all…