Management training: no age limit, says RTITB
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"TOO MANY managers regard themselves as owners and administrators rather than essential parts of industrial organization," said Mr. P. Haxby, director of training, RTITB, speaking at a special meeting of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers in London last week.
At the meeting, called to discuss the training of managers, Mr. Haxby spoke of the work of the Board, and of the need to establish "professionalism" in management.
"Industrial training is not about money, and the grant and levy system will become less significant over the next two years. Mandatory industrial training must be implemented now that this country is committed to earn its living by the work of industry," he said.
In answer to a question on whether he
would put an upper age limit on industrial training. Mr. Haxby said if a man late in life wanted training, provided he knew where he was going, there could be no objection to his being trained.
Mr. J. A. C. Williams, principal of Chelsea College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering, dealt with the possibility of extending the IRTE's section C educational programme in his paper.
Young men in training should, he said, be taught the basics of management, although, of course, managers could not be equipped for their jobs in the classroom.
"There is no great gulf fixed between the technician and the manager," he contended. He believed the ideal manager would be a man who began life as a shop floor apprentice.