Journal of European Industrial Training: Volume 9 Issue 3

Computers in Education and Training

David Jay

Because the computer is something of a universal machine, there are few practical contexts it does not support. The fields of education and training are among the most vital and…

Japan: Crossing the Business Communications Divide

Nigel Holden

In October 1982 I was invited to teach Japanese to the managing director of a high‐tech company based in the North West of England. It meant in fact devising a specific 40‐hour…

The Corporate Response to YTS — Part I:: Investment or Social Responsibility?

Paul Joyce, Adrian Woods, Mike Hayes

Youth unemployment is one of the most serious problems of the early 1980s. In 1981 one in six youngsters under 18 years old were looking for jobs. As the problem has worsened the…

Team Training: Towards an Integrated Approach

Brian Lusher

Managerial jobs are episodic, fragmented and action based. Training has attempted to reproduce this reality in the contents and methods used. It is possibly more sensible to allow…

Dissonant Views of the Manager's Role:: Management Development Implications

John Knibbs, Sandra Morgan, Roland Toone

In an article in this journal, Elliott and Knibbs[1] presented some preliminary findings about the relationships between the expectations of course members on Management…

Training Professional Production Engineers

J.A. Napper

Production engineering has changed extensively in the last decade and today as many production engineers are found in the non‐metal cutting industries as in the old traditional…

Paralinguistics:: How the Non‐verbal Aspects of Speech Affect our Ability to Communicate

John Townsend

There is an old adage which points out “it's not what you say, it's the way that you say it”. Of all the various types of “body language” that are currently being toted as…