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Moon, Suzie; Birchall, David; Williams, Sadie; Vrasidas, Charalambos – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2005
Purpose: This paper reports on the development of a workplace-based e-learning programme for small and medium enterprise (SME) managers in five European countries. The course is designed to address the specific needs of SME managers who, it has been noted, represent a significant proportion of the EU workforce but often experience difficulty in…
Descriptors: Small Businesses, Focus Groups, Acceleration (Education), Foreign Countries
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM. – 1996
This module is part of a set of management and supervisor training (MAST) materials developed by the Department of Energy for the Waste Isolation Division. Its stated purpose is to enable trainees to develop effective plans. The first section of the module is an introduction that includes a terminal objective and opening remarks intended to focus…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Goal Orientation, Hazardous Materials
Westinghouse Electric Corp., Carlsbad, NM. – 1996
This learning module, which is part of a management and supervisor training program for managers and supervisors employed at the Department of Energy's Waste Isolation Division, is designed to enable trainees to identify regulatory organizations and oversight groups and monitor and provide guidance in the implementation of the requirements of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role
London, Manuel; Wueste, Richard A. – 1992
This book is intended to help managers and human resource professionals understand organizational change and manage its effects on their own development and that of their subordinates. The following topics are covered in 11 chapters: organizational change, employee motivation, new managerial roles, human performance systems, upward and peer…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Career Development, Change Strategies, Feedback
Nubler, Irmgard – 1992
A research project in the Ivory Coast, Kenya, and Tanzania evaluated the cost effectiveness of management training seminars for women entrepreneurs in the informal sector. Women, a large and growing part of entrepreneurs, had less access to needed resources, skills, and information than men. Reasons for failure to study the cost effectiveness and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Administration, Business Education, Cost Effectiveness
MacFarland, Thomas W. – 1997
This study examined the educational quality and student satisfaction with the undergraduate program in professional management at Nova Southeastern University (Florida). This program focuses on the needs of working adults, and classes are offered evenings and weekends at multiple sites in a distance education format. A survey of nearly all of the…
Descriptors: Adults, Distance Education, Educational Environment, Educational Quality
1997
This document contains three papers from a symposium on management development. "LMX (Leader-Member Exchange) Theory, Personality Type, and Management Development" (Janet Z. Burns) reports the results of a study on the similarities and differences in personality type (as outlined in the theories of Carl Jung and Isabel Myers) and its relationship…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Cognitive Style, Decision Making
Cunningham, James J. – 1992
The Black administrator, whose role in higher education has been important historically in predominantly Black colleges and universities and also within predominantly White institutions, will become even more important in the future as demographics and technology continue to change. In general, Black administrators have been given responsibility…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role
Maxham, John C.; Steinhouse, Keith P. – 1993
This paper describes some lessons learned from the first 2 years of Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation at the Coast Guard Academy (New London, Connecticut). Key issues for TQM adoption at the Academy included leadership, training, organization, total involvement, and measurement. It was found that top management must define the…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Educational Change, Educational Quality
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1991
The Employer Specific Skills Training (ESST) Program strengthens New York State's economy by assisting employers and employees to become more productive and competitive through customized training and education. The program has three goals: (1) to foster cooperative ventures; (2) to use resources of local education agencies to respond to local…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Dislocated Workers, Economically Disadvantaged, Inservice Teacher Education
Noyelle, Thierry; Bailey, Thomas – 1990
Changing employer-based training represents one strategy that U.S. firms are adopting to confront recent transformations in the global economy. The new competitive conditions place new and different demands on workers, more of whom are being called upon to use technical, conceptual, and communications skills. Approaches to training in particular…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Banking, Basic Skills
Mount Carmel International Training Centre for Community Development, Haifa (Israel). – 1982
The topics and issues brought forth in this report are the result of a 3-month training course on early childhood education that included lectures, discussions, and field visits. Nineteen participants representing 11 countries lived together for 3 months during 1982, exchanging views and ideas. A list of program participants, staff, and sponsors…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Development, Creative Activities, Developing Nations
Gaffney, Michael J. – 1981
Faced with the need to build new social and economic institutions following the 1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, Alaska Natives formed 12 regional non-profit making corporations. One of these, Northwest Arctic Inupiat (NANA), is bringing a human resources development approach to the area in an effort to develop enduring economic and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Culture, Developing Nations
Brent, Daniel; Jurkowitz, Carolyn – 1983
This document provides eight lessons intended to improve the functioning of school boards and education committees for Catholic schools. Each lesson consists of three parts: a reading or activity to be done by the members in preparation for the lesson, a study activity to be done at the board meeting, and a reading or exercise to be done after the…
Descriptors: Board Administrator Relationship, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Boards of Education
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May, Annie – 1988
This document contains three reports: (1) a report on women entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom (UK) in English; (2) the same report in French; and (3) a synthesis report of 12 national reports and 4 related reports. The report on women entrepreneurs in the UK includes an introduction, a description of the methodology, five sections of findings,…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Career Guidance, Comparative Education, Credit (Finance)
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