TRAINING SCHEME

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21385, 21 April 1944, Page 4

TRAINING SCHEME

leaders in industry .(P A.) WELLINGTON, April 21. A large meeting under the auspices of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association heard an address Zealand Institute of Industrial Management. - . . Mr. it. D. Greenwood said that with the Dominion’s increasing industry it was essential that the leaders in industry should have a course of training in the principles of scientific industrial management. Industry was crying out for leaders. The frontline officer in production was the man in a supervisory capacity, usually styled the foreman, who held the key to success or failure in manufacturing and who should be trained to be able to handle the critical positions .with which he was faced. The present-day foreman had most-, ly been trained in the school of hard knocks and obtained' his position by trial and effort, but that. was the expensive, wasteful, infficient way. The majority of the foremen in the future would, as now, rise from the ranks, but unless they were willirig and able to obtain a higher standard of education and training in management they would not achieve promotion. Mr. lan Matheson, president of the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation, said that the federation would disttiss the matter from the Dominion standpoint at the next meeting. A provisional committee was set up to convene the first meeting of the institute.