A participant-observation study in a South African mining company that used self directed work team training identified organizational constraints that hindered training effectiveness: lack of materials, machinery breakdown, decentralized budget, and imposed standards. Miners more often used improvisation and initiative to solve daily problems,…

Japan Air Lines has developed a training technique called "unprogramed instruction" in which the trainees set up the schedule and training objectives with the instructor. Advantages and limitations of the self-directing method are presented. (MW)

There is now available to manpower agencies a manual for an on-the-spot, self-instructional, self-administered workshop on group leadership techniques. Developed by Manpower Science Services, the workshop consists of 15 sessions. It was designed for counselors, leaders of orientation groups, staff meetings, staff development programs, and similar…

The most obvious factor common to the Spanish Speaking is their lack of control and minimal influence over institutions and programs affecting them. This characterizes their situation as one of subordination to the dominant culture's external powers, followed by the denial of occupational opportunities which are manifested in the high unemployment…

This document contains three papers from a symposium on team-based work in human resource development (HRD). "Toward Transformational Learning in Organizations: Effects of Model-II Governing Variables on Perceived Learning in Teams" (Blair K. Carruth) summarizes a study that indicated that, regardless of which Model-II variable (valid…