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Peer reviewedBowman, James S. – Public Personnel Management, 1989
Placing Florida in the context of national developments, this article examines the quality circle (QC) form, problems encountered with it, and approaches used to address these difficulties. It analyzes QCs in the state's public sector and discusses the implications for QC programs. (98 references) (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Employee Attitudes, Employer Employee Relationship, Government Employees, Labor Relations
Handy, Charles; And Others – Adults Learning (England), 1994
"Foreword" (Handy); "Creda's Vocational Training Scheme" (Bradley); "IBM: Learning for Life" (Stevenson); "Personal Development at Sainsbury's" (Deaves); "Ford Employee Development and Assistance Programmes" (Moore); "Hotpoint North Wales" (Jones); "Derbyshire Employee Development…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning
Download full textAtkinson, Tim – 1990
Quality circles (QCs) are small volunteer groups of workers who meet weekly with a trained leader operating to a strict code of conduct. They use techniques of brainstorming, cause and effect classification, pareto analysis, and presentation to consider work-related problems and recommend solutions to management. QCs have been tried in educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Colleges, Educational Change, Educational Research
Workplace ESL Literacy in Diverse Small Business Contexts: Final Evaluation Report on Project EXCEL.
Hemphill, David F. – 1992
Project EXCEL, a workplace literacy project involving four small business enterprises in San Francisco, is evaluated. The project focused on literacy and basic skills training for limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. The businesses included the following: a communications and mass mailing firm; a dessert wholesale company; a Mexican…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communications, Curriculum, Employee Attitudes
Career Resources Development Center, Inc., San Francisco, CA. – 1991
Project EXCEL is a workplace literacy project involving four small business enterprises in San Francisco. Over a 19-month period, the project focused on literacy and basic skills training for 271 limited-English-proficient (LEP) workers. All training was conducted at the work sites, and a variety of support services were provided, including…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communications, Cultural Pluralism, Curriculum
Heller, Barbara R.; Gross, Linda – 1978
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the kinds of things males and females do on their first co-operative job, how they perceive their working conditions and responsibilities, and how their performance is viewed by their employers. There were 272 college students in the sample. Sexes were fairly evenly represented, but the male-female…
Descriptors: College Students, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Employed Women
Gee, Mary Kay – 1998
This publication provides a model curriculum with a focus on welfare-to-work, school-to-work, and first-time employees. It emphasizes the basic competencies most valued by employers for the current and future domestic and global work force. Section 1 presents an overview of LifeWork, a performance-based transitional program that uses the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Basic Skills, Behavioral Objectives
Aliaga, Oscar A., Ed. – 2001
This document contains 127 papers and innovative sessions and three poster sessions presented at a conference on human resource development (HRD). A program overview, author index, keyword index, and a CD-ROM version of the document are also included. The papers are grouped by the conference's 44 symposiums, which were devoted to the following…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adjustment (to Environment), Administrators, Adult Learning
