scholarly journals AN EVALUATION OF MANPOWER TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN STERLING BANK PLC, LAGOS STATE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
Julius Paul EYANUKU
Keyword(s):  
Development Policy ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Manpower Planning ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Explanatory Variables ◽  
Lagos State ◽  
Reasonable Proportion ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training

Manpower development has been described as the systematic process which a bank has to go through to ensure that it has the effective managers it requires to meet its present and future needs. The objectives of the study is to access the manpower and development, selection and training programmes and from and to conduct an empirical investigation through a review of the manpower planning and development policy of the bank industry. This was because various alternative explanatory variables that were not easily quantified were used. Finally, it was recommended that as a result of importance of manpower planning and development, Banks should endeavour to always provide funds to enable its staff to participate in training and development programmes and based on the established positive relationship between training and Bank’s performance vis-à-vis profit after tax, bank should always vote a reasonable proportion of its profits to training and development of its employees.

scholarly journals Employment and Manpower Information in Pakistan: Identification of the "Invisibles"

1991 ◽  
Vol 30 (4II) ◽  
pp. 879-891
Author(s):  
Sabur Ghayur
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Manpower Planning ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Important Constraint ◽  
Employment Impact ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training ◽  
Adequate Data

Employment and manpower development (E&MD) considerations are appearing in Pakisan's development plans since the Fifth Five-Year Plan. These considerations, though improving upon earlier neglect and at times indifference, however, did not go beyond mere projection exercises-themselves point of considerable debate 1 - and calculations of employment impact of investment plans and targeted sectoral growth rates.2 These plans (manpower plans) besides being devoid of education and training programmes also have no integration with the development plans, a prerequisite for a meaningful development exercise. A general lack of awareness amongst the planners and policy-makers about the vital links between the E&MD and the development only partly explains the existing scenario. Absence of a reliable and adequate data base on E&MD related variables appear to be an important constraint for undertaking any meaningful exercise of employment and manpower planning. Existing institutional mechanism of the Labour Market Information System (LMIS) in Pakistan is not responding adequately in addressing its three functions, namely (i) Labour Market Information, (ii) Labour Market Diagnosis, and (iii) Labour Market Intermediation.3 The first two functions are required to provide detailed information on E&MD-related variables a subject of discussion of this paper. This non-responsiveness is mainly attributable to low E&MD considerations in earlier policy formulations.

scholarly journals Training and Development Policy, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayenda Khresna Brahmana ◽  
Ritzky Karina Brahmana ◽  
Theresa Char Fei Ho
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Development Policy ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Capital Theory ◽  
The Us ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Training

This research investigates the role of corporate governance as a moderator between firms’ performance and their Training and Development Policy (TDP). Research data were taken from the US, Brazil, Russia, India, China and Indonesia from 2007 to 2013.   This research found that the TDP is important for enhancing firm performance. Also, the role of the training and development policy impacted each firm’s performance differently, according to the level of corporate governance of that firm. The moderating effect of corporate governance reveals that better governance of a firm may have an influence on its TDP policy, which would lead to better firm performance. Overall, the results are consistent with the conjecture that corporate governance influences the firm’s performance and training and development policy, suggesting that the training and development policy’s success depends on the corporate governance level of the firm. Hence, this research contributes to two big theories: the knowledge transfer theory and the human capital theory, where the research findings show a confirmation of the two theories application in this research context.

Idea of Research-Writing in Sociology: Polemics on the Loss of a Transformative Practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802292097030
Author(s):  
Dev Nath Pathak
Keyword(s):  
Sociological Research ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Relevant Question ◽  
Analytical Reasoning ◽  
Transformative Practice ◽  
Sociology Of Sociology ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training

Following Alwin Gouldner (1971), it is pertinent to perpetually ask a seemingly all-time relevant question. And the question is, what do sociologists do? In the manner of doing sociology of sociology, and by a polemical resurrection of fragments from the dominant practices of sociologists, this essay brings forth general understanding about the idea of research-writing in contemporary India. It underlines the anomalies in the practice of research-writing, connected with the teaching and training programmes, in a self-referential perspective. The essay substantiates the polemics with analytical reasoning, in order to reveal as to what could be reasons behind this state of sociological research-writings.

scholarly journals Rituals of Vocational Socialisation: Faith-Building in Higher Vocational Education for Weak-Form Occupational Pathways

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Ye
Keyword(s):  
Vocational Education ◽  
Weak Form ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
Higher Vocational Education ◽  
Collective Identification ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training

AbstractThis paper addresses the question of how higher vocational education and training programmes socialise participants for future work, where the occupational pathways they are to embark on are weakly defined. The analysis focuses on organisational rituals as a means to understand individual and collective transformative processes taking place at a particular intersection of education and labour markets. Building on organisational and sociological theories of rituals, as well as drawing empirically from a longitudinal qualitative interview study of a cohort of students in Swedish higher vocational education for work in digital data strategy, I explore how rituals are enacted in a vocational education and training setting and what these rituals mean to the aspirants who partake in them. The findings illustrate how rituals initiate, convert, and locate the participants in a team. These repeated encounters with rituals socialise, cultivate and build vocational faith amongst participants, despite the nascency and unstable nature of their education-to-work pathways. However, while rituals can serve as a catalyst to ignite processes of collective identification and vocational socialisation, they are not always successful. The paper discusses implications of faith-building in weak-form occupational pathways when the labour market is strong and conversely, when the economy is in recession. The text concludes by advocating the need for examining the power of educational institutions in shaping transitional experiences of participants in vocational education.

scholarly journals How Construction Employment Can Create Social Value and Assist Recovery from COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 988
Author(s):  
George Denny-Smith ◽  
Riza Yosia Sunindijo ◽  
Martin Loosemore ◽  
Megan Williams ◽  
Leanne Piggott
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Significant Rise ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Construction Workers ◽  
Economic Outcomes ◽  
Unemployed Youth ◽  
Sustainable Recovery ◽  
And Training

COVID-19 has created or amplified economic and social crises internationally. Australia entered its first recession in 30 years and saw a significant rise in unemployment. In response, Australian governments have increased their commitments to infrastructure construction to stimulate the national economy and combined this with new social procurement policies that aim to create social value for targeted populations like Indigenous peoples and unemployed youth. However, emerging social procurement research in construction shows a disconnect between policymakers and the practitioners who must implement them. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to provide theoretical and practical insights on creating social value in the context of construction employment created by new social procurement policies. Reporting a survey of 107 construction workers in Australia, it is shown that social procurement policies and construction employers can create social value when they provide work benefits like adequate pay and training and development and cultural benefits like inclusive workplaces. Recommendations are made to demonstrate how the results presented in this article can be used by contractors to create social value. This research is significant for advising how increased infrastructure spending commitments in Australia can create social and economic outcomes for workers, ensuring a sustainable recovery from COVID-19 crises.

scholarly journals Moving from tradition-based to competence-based psychotherapy

2021 ◽  
pp. ebmental-2020-300219
Author(s):  
Winfried Rief
Keyword(s):  
Basic Science ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Psychological Interventions ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Relationship Patterns ◽  
Cognitive Behavioural ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
New Research ◽  
And Training ◽  
Selection Of

Current education and training in psychological interventions is mostly based on different ‘schools’ (traditions such as cognitive–behavioural or psychodynamic therapy), and strong identification with these specific traditions continuously hinders a scientifically based development of psychotherapy. This review is selective rather than systematic and comprehensive. In addition to the consideration of other influential publications, we relied on a literature search in Web of Science using the following terms (update: 24 December 2020): (psychotherapy AND meta-analy* AND competence*). After summarising current problems, a pathway for solving these problems is presented. First, we have to recategorise psychological interventions according to the mechanisms and subgoals that are addressed. The interventions can be classified according to the foci: (1) skills acquisition (eg, communication, emotion regulation, mentalisation); (2) working with relationship patterns and using the therapeutic relationship to modify them; and (3) clarification of motives and goals. Afterwards, the training of psychotherapists can switch from focusing on one theoretical framework to learning the different competences for modification according to these new categories. The selection of topics to be addressed should follow best evidence-based mechanisms and processes of mental disorders and interventions. Psychology offers knowledge about these mechanisms that can be understood as a basic science for psychological treatments in general. This requires better connection with basic science, new research efforts that focus on treatment subgoals, theory-overarching optimisation of the selection and personalisation of treatments, and new types of training for psychotherapists that are designed to optimise therapists’ competences accordingly, instead of limiting training programmes to one single theoretical framework.

Individual patient—doctor contact in a mental hospital

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 705-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Pitcher ◽  
Howard Sergeant
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Relative Efficiency ◽  
Mental Hospital ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Junior Doctors ◽  
Discharge Rates ◽  
Training Programmes ◽  
And Training

SynopsisPatients admitted to Friern Hospital in 1972 stayed on average for about 5 weeks and spent a total of less than 2 hours individually with senior and junior doctors. Long-stay patients (1 year or more) saw their doctors for an average of less than 1 hour a year. These findings, which in the case of junior doctors were corroborated in 1974, refer only to the time doctors spent with patients alone. The admission, and long-stay discharge rates were greater in the Islington than in the Camden division, and probably reflect differences in clinical practice. It is argued that more psychiatrists are needed – precisely how many will depend on studies of the relative efficiency of different services and training programmes, and on agreement among psychiatrists about minimum professional standards.

scholarly journals O2 Facilitating engagement in surgical research through a virtual systematic review network: The RoboSurg Collaborative

BJS Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor S Jones ◽  
Mo Dada ◽  
Max Dewhurst ◽  
Ffion Dewi ◽  
Samir Pathak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Data Extraction ◽  
Training And Development ◽  
Surgical Research ◽  
Consistency Results ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Training ◽  
Collaborative Research Networks ◽  
Upper Gastrointestinal

Abstract Introduction For students and trainees, COVID-19 has restricted opportunities for training and development. We sought to develop a virtual network to facilitate remote engagement and training in surgical research during COVID-19. RoboSurg aims to conduct a series of systematic reviews, to summarise and critique the reporting of studies of robot-assisted surgery across seven upper gastrointestinal procedures. Methods A protocol was developed based on previously published work. Searches were undertaken to identify studies evaluating robotic pancreas, liver, oesophagus, stomach, gallbladder, bariatric and anti-reflux surgery. Participants were identified through social media and collaborative research networks. Abstracts were screened for inclusion by two participants. Data extraction is completed by teams of collaborators, entered into a bespoke REDCap database and verified by senior team member. Changes are logged, with rationale and feedback provided to collaborators and reviewed by a third reviewer to assess consistency. Results of each review will be summarised in narrative syntheses. Results A total of 134 collaborators have registered, with 73 active participants. Collaborators range from second year medical students to surgical registrars across the UK. To date, 9444 abstracts and 1653 full texts have been screened with 422 eligible articles identified. Data extraction for two systematic reviews, including 193 articles, has been completed using this approach. Conclusion RoboSurg has developed a network and methodological framework for the remote conduction of complex systematic reviews, which can be utilised to engage and train students and trainees in surgical research.

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