Channing R. Dooley (1993)

For his "watershed" nationwide contributions to the fundamental theory and practice of human resource development through the Training-within-Industry Project from 1940- 1945 and other lifetime cobtributions to the profession.

Chaning R. Dooley (b.1878, d.1956) made profound contributions to the practice and professionalization of training and the fundamental expansion of the training field into the contemporary human resource development profession. Dooley's pioneering contributions, through the massive Training-within-Industry (TWI) Project for the USA during WWWII established the core foci of contemporary human resource development practice. Dooley(1945) writes in a retrospective of the 1940-1945 effort that: "TWI is known for the results of its programs-Job Instruction, Job Methods, Job Relations, and Progam Development-- Which have, we believe, permanently become part of American industrial operations as accepted tools of management." (p.XI) Nearly two million certifications of learning and expertise were awarded to supervisors, managers, and senior managers across 16,000 production plants. Given the cascade design of this nation-wide effort, one might speculate that at least several millions more actually benefited from the nationwide effort. Dooley, a graduate of Purdue University, received an honorary doctorate from Purdue in 1944. His publications were largely focused on the TWI effort.