Industrial and Commercial Training: Volume 5 Issue 1

Worker participation in Sweden

LYNDA KING TAYLOR

THE ECONOMIC GOALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SWEDEN ARE much the same as those for the UK and indeed for any other member of the EEC. Full employment, a more equal distribution of…

Developing a programme of testing for trainee craftsmen in the shipbuilding industry

BRIAN LONGBOTTOM, COLIN CLEGG, PETER CLARKE, MIKE TURNER, DEREK FLETCHER, ROBERT HUNTER

The Shipbuilding Industry Training Board and the Skills Testing Service of the City and Guilds of London Institute, in cooperation with a number of leading shipyards, have…

For employers of graduates

In 1967 a group of university appointments board secretaries and a number of employers of graduates met at Durham University for a conference on common points of interest. Out of…

Assorted thoughts of an internal consultant

GEOFFREY M BELLMAN

As the title indicates, what follows is a random collection of thoughts about internal consulting. Don't look for a logical ordering of ideas because there is none. For the sake…

OPERATION VULCAN: Job analysis as a training instrument part 3

JOHN WELLENS

In our study of job analysis used as a training instrument we started at the bottom of the spectrum, first treating the check‐list type of analysis and then, later, the procedural…

EQUAL PAY: The discriminating Act

ALISON BROADHURST

If equal pay for equal work were already the rule, it would be difficult to adduce reasoned arguments for paying different remuneration for people doing the same work alongside…

A survey of current research projects

A Conference on Industrial Training Research was held on 15 November last, organised by the Industrial Training Research Unit jointly with the Ergonomics Research Society. The…

Into action: Details of the new employment service

A massive programme for modernising and developing the public employment service in Britain is announced in the free booklet INTO ACTION, available from the Department of…

Will your language trainings programme do?

JOHN ATKINSON

In recent years some of the larger British companies have begun to provide training in foreign languages for their employees. Are these training schemes adequate? Should not…