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Training, 1975
Addressograph Multigraph's training facility brings field personnel in and also creates courses to be sent out. (Author)
Descriptors: Educational Facilities, Job Training, Off the Job Training, Office Machines
Suessmuth, Patrick – Canadian Training Methods, 1974
The author discusses the true cost of training and offers a "ten percent rule" for estimating the figures, which most organizations and their training functions have not wanted to know, because the costs are so high they exceed the measurable benefits in dollars and the training produces. (Author/AJ)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Costs, Job Training
1969
The study is a second year-end report (Phase I) of the JOBS NOW project, based in Chicago, which operates on the 'hire now, train later' concept. The project consisted of four components: brief job orientation (two weeks) for disadvantaged youth; business, industry, labor, and agencies working together to employ the disadvantaged; the provision of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Business, Disadvantaged Youth, Employment Programs
Lineberry, Claude S., Jr. – Improving Human Performance Quarterly, 1977
To decide between job aids and instruction, it is essential to analyze desired mastery performance: its inputs, outputs, criteria, and underlying skills and knowledge. A decision table is included. (Author/STS)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Educational Strategies, Educational Technology, Industrial Training
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This paper assesses the contribution of management training and development programmes (MTPs) to the development of managerial skills in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Different sets of variables were used to explore the managers' skills development by dividing the managerial skills into three main categories: self, people, and task-related…
Descriptors: Job Training, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Small Businesses
Hunt, L. G.; And Others – 1975
The purpose of the research project described in the report was to determine whether an improvement in the safety experience of miners could be identified as attributable to pre-employment training programs presented at Butte, Montana, and Casa Grande, Arizona. (NTIS)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Industrial Training
Download full textCain, Glen G. – 1967
In this review, benefits are equated with the impact of the Job Corps on increasing earnings of the Corpsmen above what their earnings would have been in the absence of the program. Earning improvements are measured in two alternative ways: (1) the educational gains achieved in the Job Corps in conjunction with education and life-time earnings,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Federal Programs, Job Training
Dickinson, A. W. – Training Officer, 1971
By learning to live together, boys in an English National Association of Boys' Clubs, learn cooperative group behavior which enables them to be responsible beings in society and function well at work. (AF)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Employee Attitudes, Employee Responsibility, Employer Employee Relationship
Coleman, Gerry – Wisconsin Vocational Educator, 1978
Describes the three major types of training programs funded under CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) in Wisconsin and discusses recent trends in CETA program funding and administration, focusing on functions of the Prime Sponsors, particularly as they operate in Wisconsin. (BM)
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Federal Aid, Federal Programs, Job Training
Carnevale, Anthony P.; Gainer, Leila J. – 1989
This publication summarizes research that shows that it would be a serious economic error to favor investment in machines, financial capital, and extracted resources over investments in the education and training of people. The discussion begins by explaining the relationship between job-related learning, individual opportunity, and the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Futures (of Society), Job Skills
Fuller, William P. – 1970
To examine the contributions of specific kinds of occupational training to the productivity of workers with different levels of formal schooling, interviews were used to collect data on general education, trade training, work experience, environmental characteristics, and general ability from 598 turners, millers, and grinders in two factories in…
Descriptors: Ability, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries, Job Training
Swanson, Steven M.; And Others – 1973
This pilot research project analyzes the role related classroom instruction plays in training journeymen in three Boston area trades-machinist, electrician, and operating engineer. Information was gathered from apprentices, journeymen, apprentice coordinators, and others by means of personal interviews and/or mail questionnaires. The data were…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Construction Industry, Electricians, Engineering Technicians
Bishop, John; Stevens, David W. – 1985
Correlates of employer-provided training while in the most recent full-time job held were explored. Respondents were nearly 10,000 members of the 1980 high school seniors cohort of the High School and Beyond survey data set. Two types of forces expected to influence participation in employer-provided training were distinguished: incentive and…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Employees, Females, Incentives
Further Education Unit, London (England). – 1984
This document is a guide to the implementation of the Manpower Services Commission's (MSC) Youth Training Scheme (YTS) in Great Britain. It is intended to serve as a negotiating brief for colleges and schools and for local education authorities in their dealings with employers. An introduction explains the background of YTS, provides an overview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Job Training, Off the Job Training
Goldberg, Gertrude; And Others – 1968
This manual is designed for trainers of social service aides in New Careers training programs. In these programs, (1) persons from disadvantaged backgrounds are prepared through on-the-job training and other methods for entry-level positions in human service agencies; (2) employing agencies are motivated to make corresponding changes in their…
Descriptors: Educational Responsibility, Guides, Human Services, Job Training
