Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 45 Issue 4

Are cracks now appearing in the boardroom glass ceiling?

Brian J. Hurn

The aim is to review the progress as well as the setbacks that have occurred since the author's first article “Removing the boardroom glass ceiling” in Industrial and Commercial…

Leadership deficiencies in rapidly changing organizations: multisource feedback as a needs assessment tool – part II

Clinton O. Longenecker, Robert D. Yonker

Part I of this research study identified the top five leadership deficiencies that confront managers in periods of rapid organizational change and transformation. This article…

The business training in the automotive industry in Greece: the example of Opel

Vasiliki Brinia, Konstantinos Pefanis

The purpose of the paper is to investigate the views of the employees of GM Hellas (the subsidiary of Opel car manufacturer in Greece), with regards to the training they receive…

Use of games in training: interactive experiences that engage us to learn

Chanin Ballance

The purpose of this article is to introduce the benefits of game‐based learning in the corporate business environment. Corporations and other organizations around the world are…

Participation in decision making: a case study of job satisfaction and commitment (part one)

Steven H. Appelbaum, Damien Louis, Dmitry Makarenko, Jasleena Saluja, Olga Meleshko, Sevag Kulbashian

When employees believe in and trust their management it motivates and encourages employees' participation in decision making which improves employees' efforts, benefits their job…

Mind your language training

Bob Little

Globalisation has made English today's international business language. This article aims to explore what this means for suppliers of English language training – and how corporate…

Continuous changes, organizational burnout and the implications for HRD

Sally Rumbles, Gary Rees

This paper aims to explore the relationship between continuous change, organizational burnout and the role of the HR/HRD profession in facilitating activities that can aid…

Leading so that People Will Follow

Tony Barradell

Management training on target at Blue Arrow

BP Iraq employees get health-and-safety training in Scotland

Water workers stay in the flow

Health group keeps employees in tip-top form

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Unbridled Success: How the Secret Lives of Horses Can Impact Your Leadership, Teamwork and Communication Skills

Tony Barradell

Learning goes global at Unilever

Sales coaching helps engineering specialist to stay on top

Bupa International deploys new learner audit

Travis builds workforce for the future