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Download full textLynch, Lisa M.; Black, Sandra E. – 1996
Some of the few U.S. studies on the link between training and productivity have used a subjective measure of productivity or a measure of the productivity of the most recently hired worker relative to a fully trained worker, rather than output, labor productivity, total factor productivity, or value-added measures. Administered by the U.S. Bureau…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Industrial Training, Inplant Programs
Beyond the Incidence of Training: Evidence from a National Employer Survey. EQW Working Papers WP35.
Lynch, Lisa M.; Black, Sandra E. – 1996
The National Center on the Educational Quality of the Workforce's National Employer Survey represents a unique source of information on how employers recruit workers, organize work, invest in physical capital, and use education and training in the workplace. The U.S. Bureau of the Census administered it as a telephone survey to a nationally…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Industrial Training, Inplant Programs
National Commission on Work-Based Learning (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1992
This document contains minutes of the fifth meeting of the National Advisory Commission on Work-Based Learning. The meeting's stated objective was to produce a set of specific action steps for the U.S. Department of Labor to promote work-based learning. A summary of introductory remarks (Jack MacAllister) is followed by a description of the…
Descriptors: Accounting, Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Human Resources
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2001
Recent Australian research provides a solid body of evidence that training investments can yield very high levels of returns for firms across a range of sectors. It highlights these important factors about returns on investment (ROI): ROI come in many forms; immediate ROI are highest when training is highly focused; measuring ROI is not always…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Developed Nations, Educational Economics
Ministry of Education (Singapore). – 1978
Since Singapore achieved partial self-government in 1955, economic and political considerations have reshaped educational policy and programs to support the transformation to an industrialized country. Changes in the educational systems include: more facilities for technical education and training; a reorganized secondary school system phasing out…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship
Whiteman, Jo Ann M. – 2001
Today's workplace must employ knowledgeable, flexible, efficient, and adaptable workers who are lifelong learners. Adult learners need to be updated on the latest changes in the structure of the business environment. Business programs must respond to corporate and personal development needs by designing curriculum that embraces the management…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business Education, Change, Change Strategies
