While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms can have no responsibility for general needs with government action being restricted to residual care for the unemployed rather than contributing at the leading edge of advanced skills policy. The authors argue that public agencies must find new ways of working with the business sector, acquiring expertise and authority through such means as supporting skills standards and taking the lead in the certification of employers as trainers.
While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms ca...
While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms can have no responsibility for general needs with government action being restricted to residual care for the unemployed rather than contributing at the leading edge of advanced skills policy. The authors argue that public agencies must find new ways of working with the business sector, acquiring expertise and authority through such means as supporting skills standards and taking the lead in the certification of employers as trainers.
While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms ca...
What jobs will Americans hold in the global economy of the twenty-first century and how will they develop the skills they need to compete for these positions? Over the past two decades the emergence and tremendous growth of the Internet has enabled more than a billion new individuals to participate in the global labor force, led to the automation and integration of numerous jobs, and provided a new platform for distance learning. Accompanying the explosion in connectivity, we have seen a shift in the focus of skill debates from a concern about loss of U.S. firm competitiveness to a loss of...
What jobs will Americans hold in the global economy of the twenty-first century and how will they develop the skills they need to compete for these...
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organisations and nations? How are the supply and - more importantly - the utilisation of skill - current evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an authoritative consideration of issues such these. It does so by drawing on experts in a wide range of disciplines including sociology, economics, labour/industrial relations, human resource...
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment and management. But are they so important? To what extent can t...
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. Policy makers and managers often consider the better development of skills to be the answer to a range of practical and policy challenges. This Handbook sheds new light on all the major issues concerning skills and training today.
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. Policy makers and managers often consider the ...
