MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT AND COMPANY POLICIES ON EDUCATION AND TRAINING

This article presents evidence from a 1991 survey of 406 large compani es indicating that corporate education and training practices are shap ed by four company characteristics: (1) human resource innovativeness, (2) management resistance to change, (3) work redesigns to enhance qu ality and involvement, and (4) firm downsizing. When managements creat e an innovative climate, their companies invest move in worker retrain ing and contribute more to public schooling; when they resist change, they find it move difficult to recruit entry-level employees. When man agements redesign work, their companies place greater emphasis on trai ning, development, and school relations. When managements downsize, th eir companies take move interest in entry-level training and apprentic eship programs. (C) 1993 by John Wiley and Sons, Inc.