standards and skills of its workers in various fields of their un-
dertakings. It should be taught by qualified staff working in the
industries concerned either voluntarily or as part of their duties.
This kind of classes should be designed for all workers in the in-
dustries but emphasis should be placed especially for those
workers who have been selected to understudy expatriates so
that they can take over their duties in due course. Teaching for
these classes should be both theoretical and practical and should
not in some cases be restricted to this country if facilities do not
exist. N.D.C. can assist in providing advice on appropriate
training institutions and in obtaining scholarships from friendly
countries or institutions if needed. But the initiative should stem
from the management themselves.

C: How to Conduct A successful Workers Council Meeting
INTRODUCTION

1. This procedure for conducting Workers’ Council
meetings has been designed with two objectives in mind:
(a) To help the Chairman keep the meeting under control
without appearing arbitrary.
(b) To make the Council meeting more effective in terms
of understanding problems and planning corrective ac-
tion.

2. The basic method suggested for keeping a meeting under
control is for the Chairman to begin each meeting by ex-
plaining the method that will be used in conducting the
meeting, and getting agreement on this before going into
the particular subject under discussion.

3. If an agreement on the steps to be followed in the meeting
has been reached in advance, the Chairman can then use
this outline to keep things moving along under his con-
trol. If he refers to the agree-upon procedure each time he
has to control the meeting, the others present are more
likely to see that he is following a plan for progress.
Fewer people will think he is just asserting his personal
power over them.

4. The principle is to base the Chairman’s authority on an
objective procedure, rather than his personal preference.

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