The MTA travels far with its Future Managers Program

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York State uses its Future Managers Program (FMP) to develop managerial candidates from within its existing workforce. The FMP is a two-year training program that stresses management training, job rotation and the cross-training of employees from the MTA's five operational units. Gaining entry to the FMP is difficult with only six to eight candidates being accepted from an average of some 500 applicants per training batch. To be eligible to apply, MTA employees need to have worked with the organization for a minimum of two years experience and have at least an associate degree. During the selection process itself, the eligible applicants are screened by agency representatives before being interviewed by the FMP's advisory committee. For successful candidates, the FMP offers not just an intensive training program but an intoduction to the MTA's informal mentoring system.

Regulation and Administration of Transportation Programs, Transportation Programs-State, Urban transportation, Transportation policy, New York. Metropolitan Transportation Authority

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The anatomy of a plant closing

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The closure of Boeing Louisiana Inc (BLI) could have devastated the economy of Lake Charles, LA, had it not been for the aircraft company's successful management of its displaced employees. BLI was the community's major employer, providing some $30 million in payroll to 1,600 residents. The company closed in 1991 when it failed to win a government contract to maintain and rebuild KC 135 aircraft, which was its sole business. To lessen the adverse effect of its closing on the people of Lake Charles, BLI management solicited the help of its employees, customers, the community, government service organizations and outplacement services firm, Right Associates. The six-pronged partnership resulted in the creation of 2,342 new jobs in the community and in the employment of more than half of the BLI's employees before the company's closure at the end of 1991.

Analysis, Management, Aircraft industry, Plant shutdowns, Outplacement services, Boeing Co. Boeing Louisiana Inc.

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Strategies for training new managers

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Rohr Industries Inc continually updates its corporate training and development programs to achieve its long-term goals of evolutionary organizational change. Its supervisory development seminar serves as the initial access point for initiating this change. Training evaluations provide the information on which to base these changes through surveys and follow-up interviews. Feedback on the course revisions are then monitored by the corporate and training development group to ensure that the training needs of the supervisors are truly met.

Guided missiles and space vehicles, Aircraft engines and engine parts, Space propulsion units and parts, Aerospace industry, Supervisors, Rohr Inc.

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