Preceding the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Center for Research and Documentation on Vocational Training (CINTERFOR), a 3-day seminar to study manpower development and training was conducted. The seminar was planned and coordinated by a committee with representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor, The Agency for International…

Fifty manpower research projects reported during May and June of 1969 are listed alphabetically by researcher. Accompanying information includes the researcher's address, title of the project and an indication of whether the project was in progress or completed at the time of this reporting. (CH)

Seminars were conducted at Cornell University and Arizona State University to encourage manpower research among persons who had recently received doctorates in the social and behavioral sciences. Individuals who showed promise for making positive contributions to manpower research were selected from both large and small institutions of higher…

Noting the vital importance of a trained work force to our national economy, the chairman of Bell & Howell Company states that industry must assume a leading role in the education and training of American workers. He calls on industry to organize its training resources to meet its needs. (PD)

Community groups in Knoxville, Tennessee, meet to share concerns for job oriented education of the disadvantaged, particularly through school and industry cooperation. (LY)

Reactions of participants suggest that sensitivity training performs some popular function but that it does not necessarily change behavior, affect attitudes, or constitute formal learning. (Author)

An institute of higher learning is training people in skills that will make them more employable. (CK)

Adult and continuing education (ACE) and human resource development (HRD) professionals have more in common than they realize. They would both benefit by talking to one another. The opportunity for that conversation is not likely to happen. (Includes charts listing the differences between HRD and ACE and between education and business.) (JOW)

A survey of 361 human resource developers (HRD) found that trainers are more satisfied with training than with their previous positions because HRD gives them the chance to do different things, make use of abilities, try their own methods, and earn satisfactory pay. (JOW)

Money is being spent on training, without investment in human resources. Investment requires verifying benefits and risks to determine the best options. The role of the individual must be strengthened and investment incentives increased. (SK)

It was the year 2002. Ohio was reeling from a decline in the manufacturing sector, which left thousands of northwestern Ohio workers unemployed. When the U.S. economy suffers from a recession, states like Ohio that rely heavily upon employment in manufacturing experience the impact first, according to Neal Eiber of Apollo Career Center Adult…

This article focuses on the human performance improvement and human resource development task of providing an organization with a skilled workforce. We begin by describing the U.S. demographic trends and the changing job skill requirements that will lead to a shortage of skilled workers and that highlight the importance of considering the various…

Maryland redesigned its CTE (career and technical education) program a dozen years ago to prepare students for the 21st Century's global economy and its rapidly changing workforce needs. With 350 business and industry representatives, the state created a program whose emphasis is problem-solving and critical thinking, rather than narrow,…

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework and research hypotheses based upon a thorough review of the conceptual and limited published empirical research in the organizational learning and innovation performance literatures. Hypotheses indicate the relationships between organizational learning, its antecedent, perception of…

The standards movement arrived in the mid-1980s and new curriculum frameworks of instruction were crafted for the reform of science and mathematics curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development for teachers. Today, the warning calls about science and mathematics education, the fading STEM (science, technology, engineering, and…