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Moy, Debbie – Workforce Investment Quarterly, 1998
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)
Descriptors: Consortia, Hospitality Occupations, Job Training, Labor Relations
Kobler, Alexander – Vocational Training: European Journal, 1998
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)
Descriptors: Human Resources, Investment, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Delcourt, Jacques – Vocational Training: European Journal, 1999
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)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Job Training, Labor Relations

Camp, Damon D. Jr. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1999
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…
Descriptors: Evaluation, On the Job Training, Police, Promotion (Occupational)
Greenberg, Richard – Techniques: Making Education and Career Connections, 1998
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)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Job Training, Postsecondary Education

Favorin, Marjo; Kuutti, Kari – Machine-Mediated Learning, 1996
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)
Descriptors: Information Technology, Job Skills, Job Training, Learning Strategies
Kreber, Stefan – Vocational Training: European Journal, 2001
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)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Job Training, Problem Solving, Vocational Education

Bowles, Roger; Moore, Pam – Tech Directions, 2001
Describes training and curricula for plumbing and pipefitting certification. Discusses wages, working conditions, and employment and training opportunities in the field. (SK)
Descriptors: Certification, Employment Opportunities, Job Training, Occupational Information

Frazis, Harley; Loewenstein, Mark A. – Journal of Human Resources, 2005
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.
Descriptors: Job Training, Wages, Mathematical Formulas, Outcomes of Education
Haiming, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2004
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,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cost Effectiveness, Job Training, Technological Advancement
Alade, Oluwatomi M. – African Higher Education Review, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Educational Quality, Case Studies, Surveys
Semenov, V. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Change, Citizenship Education, Job Training
Weerts, Michael Victor – 1977
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…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Bibliographies
Geer, Blanche, Ed. – 1972
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…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Adult Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Career Development
Moon, Sherril, Ed.; And Others – 1986
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…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Job Development, Job Placement, Job Training