) effective super‐vision; (5) listening by management; (6) feedback by management; and (7) effective training. Based on a survey …

Examines the preventive maintenance practice at four Japanese transplant operations in the USA. Illustrates the … application of the total productive maintenance concept, kaizen , employee training and employee empowerment. The benchmarking of …

training was related to understanding of TQM concepts; however, training was not significantly related to the perceived … relevance of TQM to the job or the military in general. Reveals the importance of going beyond TQM training and making the …

contribute towards better quality, increased productivity, and improved exporting capabilities. Moreover, employee training was …

State‐subsidized, firm‐based training is an increasingly popular strategy used by state governments in the USA to …‐year evaluation of one of the larger programs in the USA, the State of New Jersey's Workforce Development Partnership Program … effective ways to encourage economic growth, state‐subsidized, firm‐based training programs can form an important element of …

Provides a review of the methodologies used to evaluate various US‐implemented employment and training programmes …

For the past 20 years, job training has been promoted as the US Federal Government’s primary labour market policy for … from training programme evaluations to suggest that the focus on training as a primary anti‐poverty strategy is radically … mistaken. Training has overwhelmingly failed, and its failure appears to be due to structural economic constraints rather than …

beverage employees in private clubs in the USA. Through a series of focus groups, club managers’ approaches to training are …Training in the hospitality industry has received relatively little attention and what has been published has focused … primarily upon training in hotels and restaurants. This paper presents an exploratory study of training of line‐level food and …