Purpose Skills audits represent an important vehicle for analysing and monitoring skills coverage across organisations and nations and identifying skills gaps and mismatches that exist. In so doing, they provide valuable data on the competitive positioning of organisations and nations and help...

Evaluates an attempt to increase numerical and (particularly) functional flexibility in a large chemical processing plant in the Republic of Ireland. Additionally, focuses on the training implications of managerial initiatives to introduce flexible working arrangements. The case evidence is...