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Peer reviewedWarner, Malcolm – Employee Relations, 1986
The author discusses alternative models of work organization that may result from the introduction of technology into the workplace. Skills and training needs are emphasized. (CH)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Electronics, Industrial Training, Job Skills
Peer reviewedStone, James R., III – Journal of Vocational and Technical Education, 1992
A framework for industry-based training in community colleges consists of nine models: three program types (standardized, personalized, and customized) that each teach three types of skills (general, generic occupational, and job specific). Administrative considerations include funding, academic credit, course location, evaluation, and liaison.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Community Colleges, Industrial Training, Job Skills
Carr, Clay – 1992
This book describes and advocates "smart training," an approach to on-the-job training that helps employees gain competence and empowers them to act to satisfy customers. The book is organized in 16 chapters grouped into 4 parts. Part 1 outlines the basics of smart training, including its performance base, the need for initial analysis,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competence, Corporate Education, Cost Effectiveness
Download full textStaley, Eugene – 1967
This preliminary essay was designed to raise issues for discussion in the International Workshop on Occupational Education and Training for Development held at Stanford University, August 1967, and participants were asked to test and challenge all propositions. The essay offers a conceptual framework and a rational procedure for the planning of…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Economic Development, Educational Needs
GLOVER, J.H. – 1966
THE CHIEF OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY OF SPEED-SKILL ACQUISITION WAS TO FIND A MATHEMATICAL MODEL CAPABLE OF SIMPLE GRAPHIC INTERPRETATION FOR INDUSTRIAL TRAINING AND PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AT THE SHOP FLOOR LEVEL. STUDIES OF MIDDLE SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN MACHINE AND VEHICLE ASSEMBLY, AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION, SPOOLMAKING AND THE MACHINING OF PARTS CONFIRMED…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Industrial Training, Job Skills, Learning Plateaus
Stone, James R., III; Manion, Kathryn J. – 1988
A study was designed to identify models of industry-based training (short-term training designed to upgrade or update the skills of employed workers). Information was gathered through a review of literature and 13 telephone interviews in 4 states with persons previously involved in outreach programs to business and industry. Researchers also…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Evaluation Criteria, Industrial Training, Inplant Programs
National Inst. of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1978
This volume presents a study undertaken in Connecticut to identify short-term and long-term strategies for changing prison industries into self-supporting labor systems while simultaneously promoting the rehabilitation of prison inmates. Individual tasks performed as part of the study include a job market survey, an inmate manpower survey, and a…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Cost Effectiveness
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture. – 2003
This document profiles 10 European programs that exemplify good practice in building skills and qualifications among employees of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The programs profiled are as follows: (1) TRICTSME (a program providing World Wide Web-based information and communication technologies training for SMEs in manufacturing); (2)…
Descriptors: CD ROMs, Certification, Curriculum Development, Education Work Relationship
New York State Education Dept., Albany. Office of Occupational and Continuing Education. – 1984
A study examined approximately 130 projects that were conducted in New York between November 1980 and December 1983 as a part of the state's Short-Term Program for Economic Development. During the study, researchers interviewed representatives of the businesses, industries, unions, and educational institutions involved in the training programs in…
Descriptors: Business, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits
Hoachlander, Gary – 1998
The issue of developing a new framework of industry programs for vocational education in the United States was examined in a study of the current status of programmatic structures nationally and among the 50 states. The following are among the topics that were explored: (1) the rationale for a new programmatic framework in the context of changing…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Advisory Committees, Classification, Curriculum Development
2000
This document contains 18 papers from the human resource development and manpower training section of an international conference on vocational education and training (VET) for lifelong learning in the information era. The following papers are included: "Use of Social and Economic Modeling to Plan Vocational Education and Training"…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Career Education, Competency Based Education, Computer Uses in Education
