Aimed at MBA, post-experience students and advanced undergraduates, this book provides a practical, experience-led approach whilst still maintaining a critical focus. Contributors focus on the relevance of training to the workplace and the management of change.

Introduction and Overview; H.Rainbird.- The Organisation of the Training Function in Large Firms; S.Carey.- Reconciling Individual and Organisational Development: Issues in the Retail Banking Sector; E.Antonacopoulou.- Performance Management and Training; B.Hansen.- Multinational Companies: Innovators or Adaptors?; P.Marginson.- Training in Greenfield Sites; H.Newell.- Training and New Forms of Work Organisation; C.Rees.- Workplace Industrial Relations and Training; J.Heyes.- The Worker Basic Skills 'Crisis': Some Industrial Relations Implications; S.Hoddinott.- Unions and Workplace Learning: Conflict or Cooperation with the Employer?; J.Sutherland & H.Rainbird.- Work Placements for Young People; P.Huddleston.- What Engineers Learn in the Workplace and How They Learn It; P.Senker.- Adult Learning and the Workplace; P.Caldwell.- Workplace Learning and the Limits to Evaluation; L.Holly & H.Rainbird.

'...comprehensive and cogent , presenting a variety of issues, expertly argued.' - Alistair Goldsmith, University of Strathclyde 'An up-to-date, pragmatic approach, much needed.' - Stuart Bryan, University College Warrington