Examined relations among retail sales training, organizational support, and store performance and examined whether training interacts with organizational support to predict store performance. Results indicated that training and organizational support were significantly correlated with both measures of store performance, although the relationship…

A brief account of the French industrial training system is presented, followed by an outline of the changing industrial structure observed in the Saint-Etienne area, with particular reference to the adoption of new technology in manufacturing systems and observations concerning the local industrial training structure that has emerged to…

Noting the vital importance of a trained work force to our national economy, the chairman of Bell & Howell Company states that industry must assume a leading role in the education and training of American workers. He calls on industry to organize its training resources to meet its needs. (PD)

Discusses the importance of employer-sponsored training programs as a way of improving productivity both on a cost-benefit basis and through meaningful employee personal growth. (JOW)

Describes Sperry Univac's video studio at the Princeton Education Center which produces technical training programs for the company. (BD)

The modular approach to training is a technique applicable to traditional forms of long-range training and the newer short-term training-in-industry. (DS)

Deals with the need for continuation and supplementary training in industry. (SP)

Author discusses an employee training program devised by DuPont utilizing a unique kind of programmed instruction. The success of this type of instruction was so great that DuPont has now developed a comprehensive library of 150 such courses available to other companies, schools, etc. (LF)

Article describes the development of work study as a profession and its contribution towards industrial efficiency. (Editor)

Article explains safety training in terms of what, why, cost, and planning. (GB)

An industry, previously dealing only with products, is successful in marketing services such as its programed self-instruction kits and safety management consulting services. (CP)

Levy and grant provisions under the Engineering Industry Training Board in Great Britain are discussed as a basis for procedures in analyzing and reporting on training costs and benefits. (LY)

Presents results of a mail survey on training methods used by 69 manufacturing and 49 nonmanufacturing firms in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis-St. Paul). (LY)

At Colchester Lathe Company, Ltd., it has been found that introducing any new system, With good communications and flexibility, the system can be a vast improvement over the traditional approach to craft training. (NL)