Describes the Keeping America Working Project's Partnership Development Fund, which is used to award minigrants to colleges for the purpose of developing cooperative arrangements with local businesses and industry. Uses the Automotive Service Educational Program sponsored by General Motors Corporation as an example of collaborative programs. (DMM)

This study was conducted to determine the current status of existing and potential cooperation and collaboration efforts among major employment training delivery systems. The study involved a survey of representatives from eight major delivery systems of employment training. Data analysis supplied information about each delivery system and…

Outlines changes that individuals might expect as a result of computer technology in the areas of education, medicine, industry, and office work. Also considers the new technology's impact on managerial organization, job opportunities, and entrepreneurship. (GC)

The author notes that before any training takes place, managers must know their responsibilities as advisors, coaches, reinforcers, and positive models. They must understand that, if they fail to fulfill those roles, their subordinate supervisors probably will not use their new skills on the job. (SSH)

To give trainees a deeper level of experience, instructors often use role plays. In a role play, of course, learners enact the situation rather than merely talk about it. In a significant way, role plays let learners escape the environment of the classroom in order to behave as they would in real life. (SSH)

Explains the role of one type of adult education--Accelerated Training for Workers--in combating underdevelopment in Mozambique. Presents a response to the needs of a nation that is changing rapidly after centuries of neglect and foreign domination. (JOW)

Participation in vocational training was correlated with working conditions and social background factors through a discriminant analysis procedure. It was found that individuals who were employed as operators or who performed routine tasks were unlikely to participate in training programs. Implications for the development of job training programs…

Seeks to create an awareness of the alternatives that exist for entering the teaching profession and alternatives to the traditional teacher education institutions. (JOW)

This report looks at three very distinct intermediary organizations--The Reinvestment Fund, a social-purpose lender and financier of community and economic revitalization in Philadelphia; Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership, a labor/management partnership in Milwaukee; and the Seattle Jobs Initiative, an agency that began its operations within…

The field of Human Resource Development has initially evolved and executed practice around a behaviorist business approach which has become inadequate and inefficient in addressing the multilevel challenges of today's complex organizations and meeting the needs of a new workforce that is increasingly becoming diverse. However, this trend is now…

DACUM (Developing a Curriculum) is a method of job or occupational analysis that involves a 2-day workshop in which a trained DACUM facilitator and a committee of 5-12 expert workers from the position, occupation, or other area of analysis create a profile chart that is a detailed and graphic portrayal of the duties and tasks performed by the…

The Higher Education Act (HEA) can be a key part of the solution to the coming "skills gap" resulting from the lack of skilled workers with postsecondary education entering the workforce. HEA should be modernized to support economic development, meet the needs of businesses and workers, and assist the growing number of "nontraditional"…

The steps taken in preparing a programed instruction microprogram (no more than 25 frames) are not significantly different from the traditional steps; the author describes them briefly. Inexpensively produced, microprograms can be used effectively to explain employee benefits, time card preparations, computer input methods, product orientations,…

Major approaches to management development, and the advantages and disadvantages to each, are listed; areas of special relevance to Federal managers receive emphasis. Probably training preparatory to promotion or updating is best done by a mix of on- and off-the-job experiences; for innovative purposes, training must be done under specialized…