The San Francisco Hotels Partnership is a consortium of hotel operators and unions that addresses skill-development needs in the hospitality industry. Participating workers were very satisfied with the opportunity to learn communication, problem solving, and teamwork skills. (SK)

Money is being spent on training, without investment in human resources. Investment requires verifying benefits and risks to determine the best options. The role of the individual must be strengthened and investment incentives increased. (SK)

New forms of work and work organization--customized, specialized, and flexible--require new skills and flexibility in job training. Demand for versatility is calling into question the ways in which knowledge and skills are conveyed. Knowledge generation is becoming inseparable from work production. (SK)

Reviews the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Police Department training-based promotional system for police officers. Presents a critique of traditional promotional practices and an analysis of relevant case law; offers a theoretical base for a training-based system. Also presents an overview of training delivery, testing, and list…

Discusses corporations such as Sears, Motorola, Saturn, and Intel that have created their own corporate universities to train and retrain their workers. Highlights Motorola, the largest of the corporate universities. (JOW)

Discusses how information technology can help to bring learning and working together by making work and its organizational context visible; describes a framework based on activity theory for structuring what should be made visible; and provides an example case system based on this structure to support learning in work. (Author/LRW)

Characteristics of virtual enterprises (client oriented, temporary working organizations that dissolve after solving specific problems, extensive technological applications) can be applied to vocational training. Virtual learning centers can provide web-based training intraorganizationally and interorganizationally via intranets and extranets. (SK)

Describes training and curricula for plumbing and pipefitting certification. Discusses wages, working conditions, and employment and training opportunities in the field. (SK)

Worker's wage increase is directly proportionate to the investment on the worker's training. A mathematical method of determining the return from investment in training a worker is presented.

This article reports the reasons for returnees coming back to China. The author states that, the first reason is that they want to return to mainstream society. Second is the homeland sentiments of the Chinese. The most important reason, of course, is that the opportune today for China's development and many opportunities exist. Whatever the case,…

The Nigerian Government and other stakeholders invest heavily in Education. The Education system should therefore be held accountable to be sure that value is being given to justify the financial investments and the period of time spent schooling. This is only possible through the process of quality control of the Education system and it is…

In the process of the transformation of Russian society in the 1990s, the concept of upbringing just about disappeared from the sphere of education and youth policy in this country, as well as from the work of the mass media. The idea that labor training, patriotic indoctrination, and moral upbringing should be components of civic education, an…

The thirty-eight documents annotated here were selected through a multiple mechanical and manual literature search conducted to identify resources which have a specific relationship to the career development of employees in positions requiring less than baccalaureate degree qualifications. Several resources covering the general topic of career…

The collection of readings reflects some of the findings of a five year cooperative research project entitled Educational Experiences of Non-College Youth that focused on four areas of occupational training: (1) apprentices, (2) private trade schools, (3) training courses in the armed forces and (4) on-the-job training. Control of training, the…

Intended for persons involved in training mentally retarded individuals for placement in community-based competitive jobs, this manual describes job training and development procedures used at Virginia Commonwealth University through Project Employability and the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center. The supported work approach to…