Reasons for the Project: During 1985 I decided to apply for a German Marshall Fellowship to visit the USA for a variety of reasons. I had lived there for seven years during the 1960s, right at the beginning of the women's movement. I was interested to return there and look at what had happened...

It is argued that human resource development too often concentrates on professional development without concern for personal development. The use of biography by individuals, especially in crisis or at crossroads is described. The nine questions used to create biography and the course or...

In a recent essay for the German news magazine Der Spiegel , Rolph Dahrendorf, head of the London School of Economics, as something of an “outsider” to the British IR scene, stated:

Industrial relations on the British pattern have always been, and probably always will be, a messy area — a complex mish mash of institutions, systems and procedures interlaced with the variances of human behaviour and organisational structure and control. And this situation persists even...

In the first article of this series I posed some of the fundamental questions which I felt that trainers seriously concerned with industrial relations should ask themselves. This article moves on to more practical considerations, particularly those related to the actual planning of industrial...