Journal of European Industrial Training: Volume 7 Issue 1

Training Personnel Professionals

Michael Pitfield

The Institute of Personnel Management, founded in 1913, is the professional personnel management organisation in the British Isles. The IPM's expanding membership of over 22,000…

Is Training Really the Answer? —: A Diagnostic Approach to Improving Operational Effectiveness

John Hayes, Tony Dunn

A common approach towards enhancing managerial effectiveness is to focus attention on improving the knowledge and skill of the manager, i.e. training. This approach assumes that…

FILMS: Video Arts — The Full Range

Roger Bennett

Most trainers will be acquainted with some of Video Arts' training films. Having won major awards, and using the best actors, script writers and techniques, they have achieved…

Putting the Training into Endeavour: An Exercise at Ashridge Management College

Ingrid Cranfield

What has canoeing to do with computer technology, abseiling with accounting or, for that matter, firing a shotgun with firing an employee?

Ideology and Safety Representative Training — An Exploratory Study

S.A.J. Oram

In 1972, the broad findings of the Committee of Enquiry into Safety and Health at Work, chaired by Lord Robens, recommended a different approach to health and safety from the…

Management Training and Its Effectiveness —: A Passenger Transport Executive Case Study

Susan C. Blake

At the beginning of the 1970s, the political decision was taken to integrate the public transport undertakings in a number of provincial conurbations into larger units. For…