Training: Just How Feasible Is This Necessity?

Focuses on how to fit on‐the‐job training activities into the organization of work, a problem area which will be gaining importance over the next few years when the training load may become an important bottleneck when training policy is implemented. Investigates what reactions actually are to this fitting‐in problem, using an ITS study as a starting‐point which shows that a whole range of instruments are employed at management level to prevent or meet capacity problems: regulation of training moments, planning of training periods, spreading or limiting study leave, enlarging individual and departmental flexibility, limitation of the output (quality) and, if none of these things help, employing outside staff. The choice of instrument is mainly determined by: nature and organization of the work done in the department; the size of the workload; and the extent to which leave cumulates. If these instruments are applied adequately, the “burdens” of training do not necessarily have to slow down further growth in training.