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Graduates' Skills and Higher Education: The Employers' Perspective
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Hernandez-March, Julio; del Peso, Monica Martin; Leguey, Santiago – Tertiary Education and Management, 2009
This paper presents the main results obtained from 40 in-depth interviews with persons in charge of human resources and/or company directors, and from a questionnaire targeting 872 companies surveyed from a data base of the 5,000 main Spanish companies. The objectives of this paper are the following: first, to identify the competencies required of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Labor Market, Interviews, Questionnaires
Nonprofits and Evaluation: Managing Expectations from the Leader's Perspective
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Alaimo, Salvatore P. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2008
The role of nonprofit human service executive directors in their organizations' program evaluation process is described. Recognizing that the leader's perspective from within the organization is fundamental to building capacity for and utilizing program evaluation, this study examines 42 executive directors to determine how they view program…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Nonprofit Organizations, Personnel Directors, Administrator Attitudes
Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Human Capital Development: A Small Country Perspective
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McDonnell, Anthony – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the pattern of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) by Irish MNCs, and more specifically, to investigate their approach to human capital development and how these correspond to foreign MNCs in Ireland. In particular, it seeks to investigate training and development expenditure, adoption of…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Management Development, Labor Force Development