ABSTRACT
Shortage of trained and educated people, at all levels, presents the underdeveloped country with one of its most difficult assignments. The general tendency is to starve the ‘personnel-forming’ services. Education and training can always wait; steel mills and hydro-electric stations are ‘urgent’. Even well-equipped modern hospitals are sometimes built long before anybody has seriously thought about recruiting and training their nursing staffs. An equally familiar personnel problem is the adaptation of the labour force to the requirements of factory- and commercial-type employment. Most governments are well aware of this need; but there are examples of official resistance to ‘proletarianisation’. The solution partly lies in reducing the training process to its essentials and of experimenting with new methods designed to enable the recruit to learn by doing. The Indian idea of an ‘industrial management service’ has much to commend it.
