This document outlines the need for manpower training and discusses the components of adequate training as provided by the Industrial Training Act of March, 1964, in order to set guidelines and standards for industries involved in the training revolution in England. Besides training and what it entails, the document presents the philosophy of…

Designed to be of value to supervisors, office managers, and executives, this book gives a broad introductory background to the functions of selection, training, and supervision of office personnel. Under recruitment and selection, it covers sources of future employees, use of the application blank, testing, checking references, and interviewing.…

This section of the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Winter Meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association consists of three papers on aspects of manpower education. A Boston study on training of tool and die makers sought to ascertain which of several identifiable training paths was most productive in terms of worker performance. It found…

The Howard University Institute for Youth Studies conducts a project in Washington, D.C., to train disadvantaged young adults, aged 22-35, as subprofessional group leaders, counselors, trainers, or supervisors for work with enrollees in an entry level Human Service Aide (New Careers) training program. The program is also meant to include youth and…

Funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity and carried out in Springfield, Massachusetts, during 1965-67, this training project sought to meet employment needs of disadvantaged high school graduates, the shortage of health professionals, and the need to improve and coordinate professional public health services. It combined a half-time,…

A study, presented to the National Computer Conference, examined the existing methods of training highly competent and knowledgeable computer programers, analysts, and data processors. Four main sources of instruction were identified: (1) private electronic data processing (EDP) schools, (2) colleges, (3) manufacturers' schools, and (4) inhouse…

The purpose of this document is to provide educational researchers and administrators with the material needed to replicate the study, Assessment of School-Supervised Work Education Programs, within a sphere of interest limited geographically, vocationally, or in other functional ways. The procedures used to carry out this study and produce its…

This symposium focuses on training programs for managers of department stores, multiple shops, supermarkets and self-service stores, and small independent shops. The authors of each of the four sections in the publication have had experience in training managers in the retail trade. For conceptual and managerial aspects of the manager's job,…

This study, designed to explore the differences in the experiences of white and Negro workers in obtaining and retaining employment in the white-collar labor market, utilized an extensive questionnaire and structured-interview techniques. A survey was made of a random sample of 250 respondents (164 whites, 83 Negroes, and 3 Others) from three…

Although it was generally recognized that the acquisition of productive skills occurred mainly in private industry, either through formal company training programs or simply through "learning by doing," very little specific information about such training was available. This study of the inplant training procedures of one company was…

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of an Australian Tripartite Mission appointed by the Minister of State for Labor and National Service to examine the methods of training skilled workers in a number of European nations from which Australia is obtaining migrant labor. The Mission summarized its findings of…

Skill Upgrading in Cleveland (SUIC) is one of three manpower training and upgrading organizations which was funded to replicate and further test the High Intensity Training (HIT) model for upgrading underemployed workers. This report is a summary of activities aimed at upgrading low-skill, low-wage workers within a plant setting and with small…

A successful on-the-job training program in which the employer is the student's trainer and supervisor must include proper student placement and site selection. The author offers criteria for locating and approving training agencies. (MF)

Describes the three major types of training programs funded under CETA (Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) in Wisconsin and discusses recent trends in CETA program funding and administration, focusing on functions of the Prime Sponsors, particularly as they operate in Wisconsin. (BM)

Schoolcraft College in Michigan has designed a program in which inmates of a women's prison, the Detroit House of Correction (DeHoCo), are trained as nurse-attendants and teachers' aides in special education. Daily classroom instruction is combined with on-the-job training with retarded children. (LBH)