Purpose – This paper aims to describe a training program at the Craigavon plant of NACCO Materials Handling Group … achieved. Findings – It details how lean manufacturing, skill flexibility and quality performance all improved considerably … managers completed their Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM) qualifications. More than 50 employees were trained in …

business landscape of the UK. Service industries, such as call centres, are replacing a traditional manufacturing base that is … facing mounting pressure to remain competitive. Leicestershire is representative of this change, and manufacturing … manufacturing firms can remain successful in a challenging market.  …

The effective integration of on‐the‐job development with off‐the‐job training does not happen often, but when it does …

technical improvements, training was carried out for 30 section leaders, 20 supervisors and 9 managers. The result of this … training was more cohesive departmental teams and greater co‐operation between departments. The second half of the article …

-based manufacturing companies. Design/methodology/approach In total, 19 focus groups using semi-structured interviews with senior … management, middle management, tenured employees and new employees were conducted with personnel from five manufacturing … companies located in the Midwest USA. Onboarding procedures, training manuals, employee satisfaction surveys and performance …

manufacturing establishments in Malaysia. Argues that TNCs exert an influence in promoting employment, training and innovation and …Explores the behaviour of transnational corporations (TNCs) in Malaysian manufacturing firms in relation to employment …

Using data collected from a sample of 661 Spanish manufacturing plants, each with a minimum workforce of 50 employees …, and representing all the manufacturing industries, this paper examines the factors that determine the level of investment … made by firms in training. Investment in total training was found to be positively influenced by the degree of …