TRAINING - AN ECONOMIC NECESSITY, NOT A DISCRETIONARY EXPENDITURE ---PRE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 3RD IRF MIDDLE EAST REGIONAL MEETING. TOWARDS BETTER ROAD PERFORMANCE, RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, 13-18 FEBRUARY 1988. 6 VOLUMES.

Everyone agrees with the concept of training and professes support of training programs. Yet at budget time, it is frequently the first item to be reduced and development bank borrowers typically do not give enthusiastic support to technical assistance for training. The value of training as a strategic tool needs broader recognition and understanding. In this era of increasing maintenance backlogs, when decision-making is highly pragmatic, training's tangible contributions must be more widely understood. Those contributions can have significant impact when measured in terms of reduced foreign exchange needs for equipment and materials, increased work productivity and improved maintenance service levels. Viewed in those kinds of specific terms, training unquestionably has a strategically important role to play today in highway maintenance organizations around the world. This paper describes that role with examples of the ways in which training serves as an economic necessity -not a discretionary expenditure.(a) for the covering abstract of the proceedings see IRRD 817883.

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• Authors:
  • Jorgensen, J S
• Publication Date: 1988

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Media Info

• Pagination: p. 4.233-4.25
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  • Publication of: International Road Federation
  • Publisher: International Road Federation
  • ISSN: 1022-954X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Costs; Economic efficiency; Education; Maintenance; Personnel
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Subject Areas: Economics; Finance; Maintenance and Preservation; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00486941
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 30 1989 12:00AM