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Identifier: belltelephonevol3132mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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e the Michigan Bell instructorsto adjust their speaking tempo andslanguage to meet the needs of theTurkish engineers; for it became ob-vious that the innate courtesy of theTurk prevented him from askingclarification questions of his instruc-tors for fear of insulting them. Amethod also had to be worked out tomake regular quality appraisals of thetraining being given. An intensive after-hour programwas continued for the entire period ofinterdepartmental training, and eventhough it required long hours andhard work on the part of the Turks,as well as those administering the pro-gram, it contributed greatly to theability of the administrators to an-alyze and adjust the subsequent train-ing program. It is recognized that aschoolroom approach, such as this,worked a considerable hardship onthe visitors, but we could find no otherway to make an accurate and compre-hensive appraisal of quality and un-derstanding of the training programas it progressed. 1953-54 Helping Turkish Telephone Men 209
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tlon of all departmentsand phases of the tele-phone business in Michi-gan. The second part in-cluded a concentratedtwo months trainingprogram in these threemajor areas of tele-phone plant and engi-neering work: Outside plant engineer-ing, construction, andmaintenance.Toll line maintenance,transmission and protection engi-neering, radio communications.Traffic engineering, building andequipment engineering, central of-fice maintenance. Part three included two months ofindividual assignments for all ten en-As aresult, when they began studying gineers in the operating departments,in the general engineering and plant In this phase it was intended that eachdepartments, they were more famil- man would be placed on individualiar with American telephone opera- work assignments similar to thosetion and telephone lingoin general, and it is be-lieved a much more ef-fective understanding ofthese vital operationswas accomplished. The six monthstraining program, asoriginally planned, wasdivided into

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