Article discusses a training program that incorporates two methods of developing social skills in the catering industry. (Author/GB)

Describes training supervisors to help a group to an awareness of how their capacity to cooperate effectively is the principal limitation on their performance. (Author)

Aim of the article is to show how Programed Instruction was introduced as one means of helping to solve the problem of training a widely dispersed trainee population, and relieve line management of the necessity of spending an increasing amount of their time on training. (Author)

The author reviews the aims, audience, standards, structure, and examination procedures of a recently formed (October 1969) postgraduate diploma course in industrial education and training. (LY)

Article describes the development of work study as a profession and its contribution towards industrial efficiency. (Editor)

Article explains safety training in terms of what, why, cost, and planning. (GB)

The British iron and steel industry training board has developed a training approach called investment appraisal of training. This approach is a forward-looking appraisal in which the estimated costs ofthe proposed training activity are balanced against benefits accruing in fi nancial terms from improved performance. (DS)

Report on the effects of an industrial training program in developing interactive skills, carried out by BOAC. (GB)

Explains how the assessment of the effect of some individual differences can be applied to the development of training programs. (RB)

The president of the organization gives a brief history of work in human resourses management including its membership, relations with other organizations and activites. (RR)

Includes five appendixes illustrating the validation methods discussed. (SP)

This article shows how programmed instruction is particularly applicable to the fire service and describes a study carried out into student attitudes to this method of instruction. (Editor)

The authors, both psychologists employed by a large British company, examine some of the difficulties that can occur when the training department of an organization is asked to train managers in the use of an appraisal program. (Editor/AN)

The common approach to interviewer training can do little to improve interviewer effectiveness, and a new approach is necessary. (AN)