The City Librarian of the Manchester Public Libraries, England, evaluates management's approach to training. Generally speaking, management is concerned with production and profits, and views training (especially the training boards and their levy schemes) as merelya hindrance to organizational progress. (Editor/LY)

Describes the training programs that IBM offers its staff and its customers. (IRT)

The author gives five impressions on the state of evaluation of training programs in industry. He takes the position that evaluation is given short shrift. (IRT)

Discusses the relationship between learning and knowledge management in corporate training which forms the framework for the development of an effective learning management system (LMS). Highlights include a theoretical analysis; examples of how training issues are connected to other processes; corporate universities; and the functionalities that…

Examines Internet use in trade union education in Europe as seen through the participation of trade union confederations and worker education organizations in the ETUE-net II (European Trade Union Education Network). Discusses the Internet as a topic of training, for delivering training, and in the mediation of changing relationships between union…

Professional development in family-centred services was given to professionals supporting children with disabilities and their families with the purpose to influence ways to perform working tasks. Is it possible to change ways of working through in-service training? In order to find answers to that question perceptions of in-service training at…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to question the appropriateness of a proposal for a new European Qualifications Framework. The framework has three perspectives: historical; analytical; and national. Design/methodology/approach: The approaches are diverse since the first insists on the institutional and decision-making processes at European…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze a new research topic, national human resource development (NHRD) for neglected but critical components of economics foundation and accumulated international development research and practices. Design/methodology/approach: Through a targeted literature review on NHRD writing, major development…

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyze the historical development of HRD knowledge. The analysis aims to use the qualitative research technique of text deconstruction on an important management text from the human relations phase of organization theory. Deconstruction is not a common method to HRD. In this paper, HRD scholars…

This review of the Haslegrave Report (1969), which set out recommendations and proposals for the streamlining of technician education, summarizes the report, a reaction to it by an experienced training officer, and Dr. Haslegrave's post-report thoughts. (DM)