A New Look at the Retraining of Unemployed Executives

The learning problems of unemployed executives (which, in this article, is a term used loosely to cover managerial, professional, administrative and technical personnel) are attracting increasing attention from trainers and researchers. Particularly noteworthy are the publications and projects sponsored by the Cambridge Industrial Training Research Unit. Several suggestions have recently been made about how these problems might be tackled, and a number of innovatory courses have been organised which specifically recognise the problems and are intended to reduce them, e.g.