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Download full textNadler, Leonard – 1983
This paper seeks to describe and analyze human resource development (HRD) from the perspective of business and industry and to identify the role of adult, career, and vocational education in HRD. The author first defines HRD as organized learning experiences in a given period of time to effect the possibility of performance change or growth in the…
Descriptors: Career Development, Educational Cooperation, Human Resources, Job Performance
Niemi, John A., Ed. – 1979
This monograph contains four papers based on a series of lectures delivered to graduate students and faculty at Northern Illinois University between 1976 and 1979. Robert Carlson examines European adult education, especially such issues as emphasis on job training over liberal education, the danger that adult education will become a method of…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Certification
Deegan, William L. – 1986
Community colleges have been at the forefront in providing contract training programs for clients such as businesses, health care organizations, and government agencies. Many state governments are beginning to provide resources for these programs as an incentive to attract or retain business and industry. One of the consequences of the demand for…
Descriptors: Community Development, Contract Training, Economic Development, Job Training
Reubens, Beatrice G. – 1981
This paper is a survey of school-to-work transition issues as they have developed in Europe. It contains discussion about the activities, research, and programs of each of four important international organizations, with particular stress on the period after 1975. These organizations are the European Community, the Organisation for Economic…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Education Work Relationship, Educational Development, Educational Research
De Bevoise, Wynn – 1983
According to traditional measures, the productivity of the American worker has declined. If education's contribution to economic productivity is to be imprortant in this decade, the measures need better definition. Technology has affected our perception of how much education is required to keep pace with growth. Those who believe there is a…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
Harris, Howard – 2000
This document examines the current state of workplace learning within the context of the changing workplace of the late 20th century. The document begins with an overview of the evolution of employer-dominated training from Taylorism to the rise of human resource development during the late 1970s and 1980s. The development of the concepts of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Case Studies, Corporate Education
