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The
TRAINING
WITHIN INDUSTRY
PROGRAM
August 1942
Bulletin No. 1
TRAINING
WITHIN
INDUSTRY
WAR MANPOWER
COMMISSION
TRAINING WITHIN INDUSTRY PUBLICATIONS
Bulletins
Precision Lens Grinding . – Volume production Organizing Manpower for a Small - Arms
obtained through specializing work . Ammunition Plant.-- Restricted .
How Idle Machinery Is Being Used for Train
Upgrading in a Large Steel Corporation . — Staff
ing . - Preemployment training at night . training activities.
Meeting the Need for Skilled Workers in a Training for the Electrical Department of a
New Airplane Engine Plant . —Planned train
Shipyard .—Expanding the electric shop force.
ing for a mass - production establishment .
Training for Quick Production in Heavy Manu All of the above publications are available
facture. - Producing while learning is feasible, through the nearest Training Within Industry
even with workers entirely new to industry . District Office — see list on pages 8–11 .
PROGRAM
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1. UPGRADING of all classes of personnel as their experience and abilities warrant ,
through planned job progression, job rotation , and intensive supplementary instruc
tion both on and off the job . Each plant should take stock of the talent and experi
ence of its own personnel before employing new men and women .
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2. Development of PRODUCTION SPECIALISTS through intensive instruction on the
job in basic operations. !
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HOW " TWI” ASSISTS WAR PRODUCTION INDUSTRY
It maintains a field force with offices in 22 districts throughout the United States , as listed
in this bulletin . It is staffed by training and personnel specialists, many of whom are loaned
by their companies for part - time or full-time work .
3. Clearing house on experience of other employers who have met their training prob
lems . This is cleared through “ TWI" headquarters and its field organization .
In addition to the above advisory assistance , the Training Within Industry Division con
ducts specific intensive training programs for the development of potential , newly appointed ,
and experienced supervisors and training directors. The programs for supervisors require
10 hours , and for training directors 48 hours .
Job Instruction Training gives the supervisor practice in how to " break in " men on new
jobs .
Job Methods Training shows the supervisor how to simplify and improve methods of doing
a job .
Job Relations Training gives the supervisor pointers and practice in how to work with
people in a way that gains cooperation and promotes teamwork .
Training of Training Directors gives intensified coaching in how to operate and improve
complete , plant -wide training programs .
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The
POLICY
(6) For every skilled job there is related tech through an upgrading program , and , of course,
nical matter , much of which can best many will remain in a specialized occupation .
be taught off the job . To be effec In times of rapid expansion when there is a
tive , this related instruction must be shortage of skilled workers , there is no
very closely tied into the current job choice but that of using inexperienced
experience. Practice , related theory , workers from other kinds of work or young
and technical knowledge must go hand people without any work experience but
in hand . Workers , employers , and with good orientation background gained
technical educators should collaborate in public vocational schools during pre
in determining what shall be included employment training . Through intensive
in this instruction and how it can best instruction on the job they must then be
be related to the work experience. brought to their highest skill on a limited
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operation in the shortest possible time . single operations. The supervisor therefore
Advancement into more skilled work should has the responsibility of developing his men
always be made from among employees of and should acquire special skill in instruction
longer experience on jobs which are good just as he must acquire the skill of maintain
foundations for the higher skills . Attempts ing good relations with his men and the skill
should not be made to displace all-round of improving technical production .
skilled workers by narrowly skilled special- Apprenticeship , upgrading , and supervisory
ists .
training programs within industry are greatly
4. Where there is a collective bargaining implemented by making available oppor
agreement the employees ' elected repre tunities for individuals to get instruction and
sentatives should work with management in related knowledge which enable them to fit
the establishment of plant training programs. themselves for advancement . Whether these
5. Management has a twofold responsibility : facilities are made available by public educa
Foremen , instructors , and experienced tional institutions , employers or organized
workers must assist less experienced workers labor groups, it is essential that there be
in acquiring new skills ; and as far as possible continuous consultation between workers ,
they should see that employees who have the management , and educators . Only through
desire and capacity for advancement be not such cooperation can the instruction be of
kept indefinitely on jobs requiring skill in immediate practical value . 1
Mr. Fenton, Mr. Gillmor , Mr. Irwin, and James J. Matles , of the United Electrical and Radio Workers (alternate
for Mr. Golden), are members of the Advisory Subcommittee for liaison between the Training Within Industry
Division of the Management-Labor Policy Committee.
Since September 1940 , Training Within Industry has been guided by a Committee of Labor and Management
Advisers which issued the first “ ' TWI” Policy statement in April 1941. The above policy statement continues the
policy originally established . The members of the original committee were : M. F. Burke , C. S. Ching, E. O. Davidson ,
Clinton S. Golden , John Green , M. H. Hedges , R. Randall Irwin , W. G. Marshall , K. F. Ode, Walter P. Reuther ,
E. J. Robeson , and John E. Rooney .
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WAR MANPOWER COMMISSION
ORGANIZATION
Industry Labor
Education Assistant Directors Management
M. J. Kane William Conover
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TYPICAL DISTRICT
PANEL MEMBERS
22 District Representatives — 93 Assistant Representatives and District Training Specialists — 98 Advisers From
Labor and Management, 549 Panel Members, Loaned by Industry, Located in 224 Industrial Cities
In addition to the names shown, each district staff
FIELD ORGANIZATION includes ten or more consultants who are not listed
9 Southeastern J. E. McDaniel,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi , Georgia School of Technology
Central and Eastern Tennessee
Georgia School of Technology ,
225 North Avenue NW . ,
Atlanta, Georgia . (Hemlock 6890 )
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Advisers Districts 1 to 8, inclusive
( To be appointed ) ( To be appointed ) 3
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In addition to the names shown, each district staff
includes ten or more consultants who are not listed
FIELD ORGANIZATION
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Advisers Districts 16 to 22 , inclusive
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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
It is a practical advisory service, dealing only with training methods and procedures. It
2 disseminates the latest , factual information based on current experience of industry.
It is concerned only with workers on pay rolls, where training is carried out right on the job
3 within plants . Workers learn by doing — produce while learning!
It shows employers how to get skilled operation from all grades of workers through inten
4 sive instruction at the job level .
It aids in the development of practical plans for upgrading workers to higher skilled jobs as
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rapidly as the ability
theirdeale warrants .
percontreles
It renders specific aid to plants in the development of foremen and leadmen so that they
6 become better supervisors .
It works for closer cooperation between local industry and local governmental placement and
The entire “ TWI” program is carried on with the advice and backing of both labor and
9 management.
Training Within Industry service is rendered by experienced industrial personnel and train
CONTACT YOUR NEAREST " TWI” DISTRICT OFFICE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS