THE MANAGEMENT APPRENTICE.

In European industry of recent years, following an example of half a century of experience in America, there has been displayed a wide-ranging interest in the training of managers. Hundreds of courses are offered in Great Britain alone and what is available in other European countries cannot be much less. Such courses are of great variety, for existing general managers who do not seek promotion to new jobs, but only improvement in their present, for supervisors to manipulate better ambiguities of their station, for the medical specialists to learn something of the latest techniques that jostle for their attention, for men seeking a wider horizon after years in one departmental task. Different industries, and even different firms within the same industry, would no doubt wish these courses to be designed particularly for their own special needs. Since the first task of managers is to make the most of their existing resources, those who would pretend to put ideas into heads of managers should also ask themselves how far they practice this same economy.