The Employment Department have commissioned three studies of attitudes to individual commitment to learning. The first in the series examined individuals' attitudes to learning (SN:3305), the second was concerned with employers' attitudes to learning (SN:3445) while the third covered the providers of adult learning (SN:3446). Taken together, the three studies have been designed to produce an overall picture and explanation of attitudes to adult learning. The aim of this study, the second in the series, was to increase understanding of the employers' role in lifetime learning; how they contribute to lifetime learning, their attitudes towards it and the factors which shape their policies and practices affecting lifetime learning. Employment; training provided (type and occupation); career structure; human resource practices: training assessment, payment for training, training information, careers guidance; attitudes towards various human resource practices; views on factors motivating individuals to train; practices encouraging individuals to train.