Affiliations: Henley: The Management College, Greenlands, Henley-on-Thames, Oxon RG9 3AU, England
Note: [*] This contribution forms part of a wider study of Microelectronics and Skills, funded by the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society, in collaboration with Dr. Adrian Campbell and Ms. Wendy Currie at Henley: The Management College, and Brunel: The University of West London in the United Kingdom, and Dr. Arndt Sorge and colleagues at the International Institute of Management, Berlin West, in the Federal Republic of Germany. I am indebted to my colleagues Dr. Stephen Parkinson and Ms. Sheila Rothwell for their useful and constructive comments.
Abstract: This paper puts forward a set of empirical propositions relating to technology, skills, and training. It attempts to link them together to point to a general theory of work-organization, by seeing how skill-needs are changing and leading to a new occupational profile in the enterprise. The implications for training, selection and recruitment are then explored.
