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I Firms which undertake new training itiatives such as Renault is doing Vorkshop, May) are the wise ones. In a lated field, encouraging day release, arkshops need to do more. Truck anufacturers courses for service en-leers are a valuable tool, too, but in tr survey in June of 200 workshops, 'file 82 replied that they do take advange of these courses, a lamentable 49 plied no.
Changes in the whole work pattern e close at hand. The Society of Motor anufacturers and Traders Motor IndusReport suggests: "If the 1980s was e decade of the employer, the 1990s ye the potential to be the decade of e employee."
The Institute of Manpower Studies .nfinns that, with graduates, a short e during the next decade will require ms to re-assess recruitment policies. (test estimates from the Department Employment to the year 2000 suggest at the labour force will increase by just • er one million between now and the id of the century; 90% of this increase likely to be women. While in 1987 the e group 16 to 24 years accounted for 1% of the total labour force, by 1995 is proportion is expected to be around 1% — a drop of one million young tople.
So what are the lessons in service and aintenance? Pay rates and productivity iglu to increase hand in hand — econoic conditions, assuming there is no 3our shake out as in the early Eighties id that there is increased economic tivity influenced by the creation of the rigle European market by 1993, may ad to the primacy of the former. Train )ur employees, be aware of this change the age/gender mix of the work force, id endeavour to hang on to your skilled iddle-aged engineers. They may be arth more than you think.
I Vehicle components supplier Raydyot so concerned that all employees ipreciate their roles in helping the cominy to produce top quality products, at it took them all out of the factory ✓ a training day. It was organised with e help of the West Midlands Enterise Board and industrial training coniltant Brian Rowland and held at the ational Motorcycle Museum. A senior lality manager from lveco Ford talked out his quality demands.
This is what we like to hear. Next for aydyot is management development — it h assistance for its programme )tamed from the Government's Train g Agency under the new Business rowth Training Scheme.