Excerpts from a study are presented in which the following were examined: (1) the start-up industry training programs of South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Alabama; (2) their effect on industrial relocation trends; and (3) leapfrogging of the unemployed and underemployed into the labor force, particularly in rural areas. (Author/BP)

Chicago's on-the-job training program, the largest in the country funded under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), is based on a business-government partnership through a nonprofit corporation called the Chicago Alliance of Business Manpower Services. Program organization and activities are described. (MF)

Shows how industrial relations affect and are affected by actions taken at all levels of an organization. (Author/LF)

Describes a study conducted to identify whether higher education is responsive to the private sector training market. Findings include that miscommunication between higher education and industry regarding primary training areas acts as a barrier to the success of this mutually beneficial relationship. (10 citations) (YKH)

Human resource development (HRD) and productivity are allies; they are synergistic. Productivity can be defined as an increase of output with no increase in input. An increase in productivity can be accomplished in the workplace through speed-up or capital investment. When productivity improvements are introduced, the philosophy of the…

Two questions are answered in regard to the Andragogical Management-by-Objectives (AMBO) model in adult education within industry that focuses on the individual and is process-centered. The first question introduces and presents a justification for AMBO. Its philosophical foundations are described, and supporting learning theory arising from the…

American business has received a challenge from the federal government in a national experiment to find jobs for 500,000 "unemployables." The major purpose of this descriptive report was to develop hard facts for use by business men in making decisions concerning participation in the program. The content includes sections on: (1) Who Are the…

A study of participation in training had as subjects black and white employees who were 17-24 years of age, not enrolled in school from 1966 to 1969, and who received company-sponsored training. Most of the employees were in lower socio-economic status jobs. Some 19% of the black youths received some pretraining, while approximately 10% of the…

In England's recent history the country's best self-interest has been to provide more, better, and longer education. Following the post-war population growth, the raising of school-learning age, and free secondary education for all, the massive rise in further education was a part of the general increase in full-time higher education. Changing…

Tips to trainers for influencing management to provide employee development programs are presented, with reference to the Fluor Corporation's People Resources Planning Center which the author developed. (MF)

Due to the decline in occupations in agriculture, South Carolina's Technical Education Center System is providing special school programs to pre-train workers for any industry willing to relocate into the State, or for any expanding industry within the State. (Author/DS)

The consultant's concern is to increase an organization's capacity to initiate and manage change through an integrated approach to the company's social, economic, technical, and organizational systems, and to improve the performance and value of its human resources, using measurable criteria whenever possible. (Author/JB)

Examines the many benefits to be gained from in-company training courses, which the training manager should consider carefully before deciding to send staff away to external courses. (Editor)

The author has sketched briefly the major issues that were in dispute, their historical development, and the method of their resolution in the Job Training Partnership Act. (SSH)