to economic activity, have a high demand for training, and expect to be frustrated in their career aspirations if … training is ot available. Childcare provision, flexible working hours and training would enable them to increase their … work: occupational segregation, employer attitudes, the gender bias within organisations, Training and Enterprise Councils …

While HRM has stimulated studies assessing the extent of UK training, there has been little sustained research into … service, attendant approaches to build credibility with line management locks training into a subservient position. Likewise …, while shared threats can close some of the status gap between training and line management, alliance tactics are …

cultures”, the recruitment and selection procedures, and the training and development practices considered necessary to develop … place sophisticated, objective recruitment and selection methods in order to achieve this, and have structured training and … strong evidence of relatively sophisticated training and development systems congruent with an HRM approach. Concludes that …

Training Reform Agenda (TRA) in Australian manufacturing. The TRA was designed to provide for the upskilling of existing …

The paper examines the role of trade unions in the provision of continuous training. It first reviews the literature in … this area and then considers evidence from a study of trade union involvement in the Spanish national training system … managed by the social partners. The study finds that union involvement has led to improved training access for workers in SMEs …

role that education and training has played in helping them develop free and effective trade unions capable of operating in …. Trade union education and training over the past 15 years has created confident and capable trade union organisations who …

Purpose – It is hard to disentangle the possible reasons for differential rates of training incidence amongst older and … younger workers. While older workers are less likely to undergo employer‐financed training, many do not take up the … opportunity to train. Differences in training incidence are also reflected in the extent to which formal qualifications are …

Purpose – This paper aims to explore international training and development policies and practices in Chinese … multinational enterprises (MNEs). The issues examined in this study include pre‐departure and post‐arrival training for expatriates … and their spouses and families, training for host‐country nationals (HCNs), reasons for Chinese MNEs not providing …