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Wise, Richard E. – Instructional Innovator, 1984
Briefly outlines the types of job training provided by the Travelers Companies, the five major challenges facing this financial services enterprise as it pursues its varied training missions, how it defines high technology, and some features of its high technology training approach. (MBR)
Descriptors: Definitions, Educational Technology, On the Job Training, Program Design
Peer reviewedMailick, Sidney; Hoberman, Solomon – Public Personnel Management, 1985
Describes a staff college designed to help Israeli managers deal with managerial and organizational problems and to increase their potential to learn on the job, improve current performance, and meet future challenges. Discusses characteristics of this approach, curriculum modules, role of the preceptor, and a comparison of this approach with the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Job Performance, Job Skills, Management Development
Download full textTaylor, Maurice – 1997
Given the centrality of the topic of transfer of learning to so many areas of workplace education, this discussion paper (in both English and French versions) draws together research results and practical techniques to help practitioners in the field. Part 1 defines transfer of learning. Part 2 describes factors that influence the transfer of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries
Carreiro, Jose; Guffey, J. Stephen; Rampp, Lary C. – 1999
This study identifies community colleges that have staff development programs for part-time teachers, determines specific aspects included in these programs, and discovers which components these programs have in common. It also presents a paradigm, or suggested design, that should be contained in any effective staff development program for…
Descriptors: Adjunct Faculty, College Faculty, Community Colleges, Faculty Development
2000
This document contains three papers from a symposium on designing effective human resource development (HRD) programs that was conducted as part of a conference on HRD. "Leveraging System Factors for Increased Training Effectiveness" (David Ripley) is a conceptual paper that critiques current training design models and the lack of…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Educational Quality, Evaluation Criteria, Fire Fighters
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2002
This publication provides a synopsis of the issues, as identified in recent research reports, relating to non-completion of New Apprenticeships and Traineeships in Australia. Some of the key findings of the research reports are the following: (1) during the mid-1990s, non-completion rates were approximately 45 percent for trainees and between…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Differences, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1978
Better Jobs for Women (BJW) is an outreach program designed to place women in apprenticeships or similar unsubsidized on-the-job training programs in the skilled trade occupations. Among the first of its kind in the country, the Denver program has completed six years of operation and has placed over 400 women in more than fifty different skilled…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Apprenticeships, Career Choice, Career Counseling
