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The Training and Development Function: Its Search for Power and Influence in Organizations (1993)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., Barnicle, B., & Heraty, N. (1993). The Training and Development Function: Its Search for Power and Influence in Organizations. Journal of European industrial training, 17(7), doi:10.1108/03090599310042519

Reviews some of the literature on power and influence as it relates to the training and development function. Highlights a number of difficulties that confront the training and development function in using power and influence successfully in organi... Read More about The Training and Development Function: Its Search for Power and Influence in Organizations.

Government Financial Assistance and Manufacturing Investment in Northern Ireland (1993)
Journal Article
Sheehan, M. (1993). Government Financial Assistance and Manufacturing Investment in Northern Ireland. Regional Studies, 27(6), 527-540. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343409312331347745

This paper analyses the influence of government grants on the investment decision making process in the Northern Ireland manufacturing sector. The paper is based on detailed interviews with Northern Ireland manufacturing firms and focuses on two time... Read More about Government Financial Assistance and Manufacturing Investment in Northern Ireland.

Zone shapes in class based storage and multicommand order picking when storage/retrieval machines are used (1992)
Journal Article
Guenov, M., & Raeside, R. (1992). Zone shapes in class based storage and multicommand order picking when storage/retrieval machines are used. European Journal of Operational Research, 58(1), 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-2217%2892%2990233-y

In this paper the effect of the zone shape in a class based storage on the optimal picking tour of the S/R machine is investigated. The expected value of S/R machine travel time for multi command order picking is derived as a function of number of ad... Read More about Zone shapes in class based storage and multicommand order picking when storage/retrieval machines are used.

Life Tables ? A Plea for their Use. (1991)
Journal Article
Raeside, R., & Windle, D. (1991). Life Tables ? A Plea for their Use. Teaching Statistics, 13(3), 78-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9639.1991.tb00182.x

This article highlights the important contribution that life tables can make to teaching in the social sciences and in engineering subjects, especially when comparative work is carried out. The article ends by illustrating how to form the life table... Read More about Life Tables ? A Plea for their Use..

Promoting strategic career development activities: some Irish experience (1990)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N. (1990). Promoting strategic career development activities: some Irish experience. Industrial and Commercial Training, 22(6), https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000001571

The nature of career development, in particular the confusion which arises in trying to define it, are considered. Two key elements of career development are identified, namely career planning and career management. Results of a study of career devel... Read More about Promoting strategic career development activities: some Irish experience.

Indigenous High Technology Companies: A Novel Training Intervention (1989)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N., & Murphy, D. (1989). Indigenous High Technology Companies: A Novel Training Intervention. Journal of European industrial training, 13(8), https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000000204

A high technology company formation training intervention undertaken at an Innovation Centre in the Mid‐West of Ireland is described and analysed. The programme aimed to stimulate the formation and growth of high technology venture through a range of... Read More about Indigenous High Technology Companies: A Novel Training Intervention.

The Use of Sigmoids in Modelling and Forecasting Human Populations (1988)
Journal Article
Raeside, R. (1988). The Use of Sigmoids in Modelling and Forecasting Human Populations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, 151(3), 499. https://doi.org/10.2307/2982997

The use of sigmoid trend models, particularly the logistic model, was once popular among demographers. However, by 1940 the approach had fallen out of favour, being criticized for giving poor results and having no theoretical validity, and it was con... Read More about The Use of Sigmoids in Modelling and Forecasting Human Populations.

Promoting Natural Learning Activities within the Organisation (1987)
Journal Article
Garavan, T. N. (1987). Promoting Natural Learning Activities within the Organisation. Journal of European industrial training, 11(7), 18-22. doi:10.1108/eb002233

The idea that learning is a natural human activity which takes place in a relatively non‐contrived way as part of everyday life has, in the author's experience, been lost when one considers the present state of training and development in many modern... Read More about Promoting Natural Learning Activities within the Organisation.

Production functions and the disaggregation of Labor inputs in manufacturing plants. (1986)
Journal Article
McQuaid, R. W. (1986). Production functions and the disaggregation of Labor inputs in manufacturing plants. Journal of Regional Science, 26(3), 595-603. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9787.1986.tb01062.x

This paper investigates the assumption of homogeneous labor inputs underlying the production functions in many regional models. The results indicate that nonproduction and production labor within manufacturing plants are not strongly separable, and t... Read More about Production functions and the disaggregation of Labor inputs in manufacturing plants..