ABSTRACT
There is a good deal of evidence to suggest that most advisers and inspectors work considerably longer hours than their contracts suggest and that they find organising their work something of a problem. For Williams (1981) the enduring impression resulting from his survey was ‘of a cadre of inspectors in a stressful situation and experiencing increasing frustration over a selfperceived inability to achieve and maintain an appropriate balance between office and field work’. Pearce (1986), noted that a team of fifteen committed to an eleven-session week normally worked fifteen sessions and averaged 650 sessions a year against the 440 which were expected of them. Another survey found a team of forty-nine inspectors working an average week of fifty-six hours as against the thirty-seven and half stated in their contracts. It is probably also the case that most advisers and inspectors spend less time in classrooms than they would wish.
