Journal of European Industrial Training articles from September 1996

Journal of European Industrial Training archives from September 1996

The dual system of vocational training in Germany.
September 1, 1996... Several countries have sought ways of improving the employment potential of young citizens and some have been looking at models from abroad. This article describes the German system of vocational training that has helped to create and maintain...

The benchmarking of training.
September 1, 1996... The American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) has published the results of its Benchmarking Forum. For a number of years, the forum has brought together training managers from a diverse set of organizations in order to establish...

ASTD Model for Human Performance Improvement: Roles, Competencies, and Outputs.
September 1, 1996... This guidebook directs attention to the roles of HRD practitioners as they become highly skilled in troubleshooting and anticipating performance problems, identifying and formulating strategies for performance improvement. The book addresses...

Human resource development - a contingency function? (Whatever happened to theory Y?)
September 1, 1996... During the course of my working life the human resource development (HRD) function in industry has grown from humble "training officer", a largely peripheral, low status role associated with instructing newcomers in necessary manual skills, to...

Supervisory training that has turned a profit.
September 1, 1996... Pilkington Glass Limited Float Manufacturing (PGLFM) in St Helens, Merseyside, a subsidiary of Pilkington plc, manufactures, processes and supplies glass for use in the construction and automotive industries. Within PGLFM, the float...

What should training evaluations evaluate?
September 1, 1996... Introduction Training programmes are now an essential feature of organizational life. An almost full-page advertisement in the New York Times of 29 September 1987 carried the headline "Training the competitive edge". The body of the ad...

Enhancing training capacity in a transition economy: the case of the Romanian Institute of Management.
September 1, 1996... Creating training capacity of high quality to serve the needs of emergent market activities is a key issue throughout Eastern Europe. Many existing training institutions whose origins related to planned economies are attempting to reorient...

Competence development - a challenge for HRM professionals: core competences of organizations as guidelines for the development of employees.
September 1, 1996... Introduction Various developments both inside and outside organizations increasingly lead to their being faced with a range of changes in the area of (e.g.) how to make the best use of information technology, the introduction of total...