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Direct linkTaylor, Marcus A. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research indicated that the workforce would require significant upskilling and reskilling over the next several years for organizations and their people to remain competitive in changing markets. This qualitative case study explored how human resources development (HRD), a mechanism leveraged to develop an organization's human capital through…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Capital, Job Skills, Employees
Flatt, Candace – ProQuest LLC, 2017
According to the United States Department of Justice (2017), over 10,000 formerly incarcerated individuals are released each week from federal and state prisons. Approximately two-thirds of this population will be re-arrested within three years of release. Although employment has been found to reduce recidivism, the majority of formerly…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions, Recidivism, Human Capital
Alon, Titan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This paper builds a model of human capital accumulation driven by increasing specialization of the workforce. Individuals increase the efficiency of time dedicated to human capital acquisition by focusing investments on narrower sets of skills. The evolution of secondary and post-secondary curricula in the United States from 1870-2000 confirms the…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Specialization, Labor Force, Efficiency
Blanchard, Weedens E. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research case study was to examine a post-secondary pilot program that provides education to select New York City homeless adults at a private university. In this study, the researcher examined how the Academy program assists homeless and disadvantaged adults to obtain post-graduate employment opportunities through academic…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Adults, Private Colleges, Economically Disadvantaged
Yano, Satoko – ProQuest LLC, 2012
After the fall of the Soviet Union and its transition in the 1990s towards a democratic form of government, Mongolia was forced to embark upon a complete series of reforms within society, including within its education sector. Mongolia's higher education sector was significantly affected by this change. Private higher education institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Change, Mixed Methods Research
Dyer, Judith Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this case study was to explore how low-skilled workers who participated in a health care training program learned to acquire the technical, cognitive, and developmental competencies they needed to gain skilled employment in higher-level positions in the field and thus advance their careers. The data methods used were: (1) in-depth…
Descriptors: Program Design, Job Training, Skilled Workers, Human Capital
