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Pineda, Pilar – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: Training is a key strategy for human resources development and in achieving organisational objectives. Organisations and public authorities invest large amounts of resources in training, but rarely have the data to show the results of that investment. Only a few organisations evaluate training in depth due to the difficulty involved and…
Descriptors: Creativity, Trainers, Methods, Labor Force Development
Stone, James R., III; Blackman, Orville; Lewis, Morgan – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
Labor market economists argue that it is difficult to fit occupations into a few skill categories, but most will agree that there are at least three. In this schema, high-skill occupations are those in the professional/technical and managerial categories. Low-skill occupations are in the traditional, in-person service and agricultural categories.…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Vocational Education, Institutional Role, Skilled Occupations
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Watson, Sandra; Harmel-Law, Amanda – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevance of human resource development (HRD) for law firms in the UK. It examines how the characteristics of legal professional practice in the UK, including the partnership structure, long established methods of targeting solicitors and the law society, may act as barriers to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lawyers, Human Resources, Professional Occupations
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Twomey, John – Community College Journal, 2010
America is daily bombarded with reminders about how rough current economic times are, particularly in workforce development. Headlines scream, "Highest unemployment rate in 26 years" and "Jobs not likely to recover to pre-recession levels until 2012." In such an environment, it is easy to lose sight of serious underlying conditions affecting the…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Labor Force Development, Adult Basic Education, Postsecondary Education
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2010
Few organizations have as racially and culturally diverse a work force as the organizations that make up the World Bank Group. Of its 13,000 employees, nearly 60 percent of whom are located in downtown Washington, D.C., and the rest scattered across 160 offices around the globe, nearly every nation in the world is represented in the World Bank…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Minority Groups, Developing Nations, Banking
Leary, Warren – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2012
As the nation, bogged in recession, focuses on job creation and economic growth for relief, attention has turned to education as the key to building a workforce to fill current and future job needs. However, to the surprise of some, much of the discussion involves community colleges, rather than traditional four-year, degree-granting universities…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Colleges, Grants, Education Work Relationship
Katsinas, Stephen G.; D'Amico, Mark M.; Friedel, Janice N. – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine policy issues from the unique viewpoint of state offices that are responsible for the supervision of community colleges and their role in developing the workforce. Using selected survey items from the 2012 Survey of Access and Finance conducted by the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama, 50…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Taxes, Skilled Workers, Community Colleges
CASAS - Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment Systems (NJ1), 2012
This report is California's response to the four questions that the United States Department of Education (ED), Office of Vocational and Adult Education (OVAE), requires of all states and territories receiving federal funding through the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Title II and Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA). The questions…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Adult Education, Literacy Education, Family Literacy
Rosser, Sue V. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
As more women choose careers in the sciences, the stakes are higher than ever before. Having women in key decision-making positions in the scientific and technological work force is critical to the future of society. Successful senior female scientists serve as a prime source of leadership for top academic administrative positions. A more diverse…
Descriptors: Females, Labor Force, Scientists, Sexual Harassment
Dropkin, Emmalie – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2012
It is the responsibility of every early childhood program director to support the development of staff, to ensure that teachers and caregivers have the skills and understanding they need to provide the highest quality of services to children. For Head Start directors, this same responsibility is intensified by federal mandates and a mission…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
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Doloriert, Clair; Sambrook, Sally; Stewart, Jim – European Journal of Training and Development, 2012
Purpose: In this paper the authors seek to argue that doctoral supervision is one type of human resource development relationship in higher education (HE), and that this relationship may be close or distanced, and involve technical and social support. The paper aims to highlight the seldom-discussed aspects of power and emotion within doctoral…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Higher Education, Focus Groups, Doctoral Programs
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Bilsky, Judith; Neuhard, Ian; Locke, Mary G. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2012
The State of Florida has been challenged to keep up with the demand for baccalaureate degree production for more than half a century. Fueled first by veterans of World War II and the Korean Conflict, and later by significant and sustained population growth over many decades, Florida's postsecondary infrastructure has struggled to keep pace with…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Educational Development, Degree Requirements, Labor Force Development
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Lakes, Richard D. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2012
Neoliberal governments consider global business competitiveness to be thwarted by costly bureaucratic regulation and programme duplication. In an effort to downsize the costs of operating a state, the governors now streamline job training functions via a coordinated workforce and economic development effort known as sector strategies, with…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Job Training, Economic Climate, Vocational Education
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Lebesch, Anna M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2012
The community college environment is complex and dynamic, requiring constant monitoring. To ensure that workforce education, a core component of community colleges' missions, remains aligned with colleges' environments, responsive to employers' needs, suited to students' interests and abilities, and current in content and technology, it is…
Descriptors: Program Development, Program Evaluation, Information Utilization, Labor Market
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Ponczek, Vladimir; Souza, Andre Portela – Journal of Human Resources, 2012
This paper presents new evidence of the causal effect of family size on child quality in a developing-country context. We estimate the impact of family size on child labor and educational outcomes among Brazilian children and young adults by exploring the exogenous variation of family size driven by the presence of twins in the family. Using the…
Descriptors: Females, Family Size, Males, Human Capital
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