Discussion of knowledge management systems highlights an integrated tool architecture that focuses on content rather than technical issues and supports authoring Web pages and Web-based training, collaborating with subject matter experts, item tracking, and gathering feedback from end-users. Describes the updating of an existing knowledge base…

Purpose: The concept of managers assuming developmental roles such as coaches and learning facilitators has received considerable attention in recent years. Yet, despite the growing body of expert opinion that suggests that coaching is an essential core activity of everyday management and leadership, the literature base remains largely…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships among strategic HRD (SHRD) practices and organizational learning; and the relationships among organizational learning and HRD outcomes through a literature review. Design/methodology/approach: Keywords were identified to use in the literature search: HRD, SHRD practices, and…

A document, "Minimum Requirements for Training of Welders", recently issued by The American Welding Society is a helpful guide for vocational, technical, or industrial welder training program instructors in preparing program graduates with adequate skills and knowledge for immediate employment in industry, which is experiencing a shortage of…

Process control is a way of training managers in business and industry to plan, monitor, and communicate the instructional development process of training projects. Two simple and useful tools that managers use in controlling the process of instructional development are the Process Control Planning Sheet and the Process Control Record. The Process…

A study of joint apprenticeship programs in six basic construction trades by the Center for the Study of Human Resources of the University of Texas at Austin indicated that apprenticeship is an increasingly vital and effective training source. (Adapted from a 1974 Industrial Relations Research Association conference paper.) (EA)

Describes the use of cluster analysis to aid in empirically validating the course objectives of an industrial training curriculum. Two findings emerged: the discovery of an important job activity missing from the curriculum and the identification of sizeable groups of workers with distinctly different training needs. (Author/RC)

The Scottish Council for Research in Education recognized in 1971 that research in the field of adult education could not be divorced from the associated employment and training of young workers. A program was developed that was designed to illuminate the complex variety of associations between education and aspects of employment and training.…

The objectives of this research are to report an application of a complex evaluation design, the classic Solomon 4-group, to an organizational training program and to demonstrate the necessity and feasibility of conducting research of this type. (Author/RK)

Reviews the history of industrial training in Finland and analyzes the Finnish school system and the work environment. Highlighted are (1) development of rationalization training, (2) development of managerial training, (3) development of correspondence training courses, (4) training in private companies, and (5) industrial training in the past…

The author discusses the need for good, practical research in industrial education and training. He stresses that researchers must apply the principles of objectivity, precision, and empiricism to their work, and states that much research in the field falls short of these goals. (Author/CH)

The pace of technological change is widening the gap between public sector vocational education and in-house corporate training. However, corporate trainers can learn the fundamental skills of teaching from vocational educators, who in turn can benefit from industry's progress in specialized course analysis, design, and development. (SK)