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Frederiksen, Lee W.; And Others – Training, 1986
Discusses the peer-training model, opposition to the plan, major objectives of the model, strategies for motivating employees to train and for making training a priority, training the trainer, ongoing training in the work units, and benefits of the program. (CT)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Models, Needs Assessment, On the Job Training
Lewis, James P. – Training and Development Journal, 1981
A personnel development plan is suggested in which training specialists (1) help employees with career development, (2) change the job or transfer employees to a more suitable job, or (3) go through role negotiation, goal setting, or some other exercise designed to create a new job perspective. (CT)
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Development, Goal Orientation, Human Resources
Peer reviewedHollister, Robinson G., Jr.; Freedman, David H. – International Labour Review, 1988
Because of high unemployment, western European governments have created temporary employment, provided on-the-job training, and helped the unemployed set up businesses. The authors examine initiatives to illustrate types of employment programs and discuss how the schemes are designed, implemented, and financed by looking at structure, content, and…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Employment Programs, Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCarter, Catherine Ann – Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, 1987
Presents a description and an evaluation of a formal training program for new catalogers that uses class sessions and a training manual in addition to actual cataloging experience. Appendices provide samples of training materials and the training schedule. (Author/CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Case Studies, Cataloging, Higher Education
Carpenter-Huffman, Polly – 1980
Cost effectiveness of on-the-job training (OJT) can be determined by measures of effectiveness and by cost assessing the relationship between output and input. Defining effectiveness to be a measure of what an activity produces leaves two main groups of problems unresolved: hierarchies of effectiveness and multiple outcomes. The most significant…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment, Input Output Analysis, On the Job Training
Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. – 1985
This congressional hearing evaluates at the grassroots level the administration and effectiveness of laws enacted by Congress to assist veterans in obtaining job training and employment. Particular emphasis is placed on the implementation of the Emergency Veterans' Job Training Act of 1983, Public Law 98-77. Testimony includes statements from a…
Descriptors: Career Education, Employment Problems, Employment Programs, Federal Legislation
Thompson, Lawrence H. – 1988
The U.S. General Accounting Office studied the characteristics of individual participants in training provided by the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), the kinds and intensity of services they received, and the occupations in which they were employed after leaving the program. Visits to 63 randomly selected service delivery areas provided…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adult Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Assessment
1996
These two papers were presented at a "town forum" on human resource development (HRD) moderated by Martin Mulder at the 1996 Academy of Human Resource Development Conference. "Human Resource Development with Integrity" (Ronald L. Jacobs) reflects on the conference theme and offers two definitions of integrity as applied to HRD. The second paper,…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Codes of Ethics, Employer Employee Relationship
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These three papers were presented at a symposium on rethinking diversity in human resource development (HRD) moderated by Neal Chalofsky at the 1996 conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development. "Diversity: A Double-Edged Sword" (Sally F. Angus) presents the notion of work force diversity through two differing perspectives in order to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, College Faculty, Cultural Pluralism
