Search Results - subject:"workforce development"

Mechatronics: Skilled Industrial Job Training

James D. Davis Jr. - In: Tennessee's Business 21 (2013) 3, pp. 16-18

Currently, skills required for these jobs are available through many avenues, but we have centered our efforts on a program called mechatronics. Mechatronics combines the industrial fields of electronics, fluid power (hydraulic and pneumatic), mechanics, and computer processing (programmable...

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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States

Holzer, Harry J. - 2012

education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and …

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Return on investment in workforce development programs

Hollenbeck, Kevin - 2012

Under more and more fiscal scrutiny because of shrinking state and local budgets, workforce development programs are … being asked to estimate their return on investment (ROI). This paper introduces basic concepts of ROI in workforce … development programs. It distinguishes ROIs estimated for workforce programs from those that are estimated for financial …

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Raising job quality and worker skills in the US : creating more effective education and workforce development systems in states

Holzer, Harry J. - 2012

education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and …

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Rethinking How Establishment Skills Surveys Can More Effectively Identify Workforce Skills Gaps

Schwalje, Wes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Through a multicountry, practice-based review of establishment skills surveys, this article identifies conceptual issues with defining and measuring skills gaps. By harmonizing divergent conceptualizations, an operational definition of skills gaps as a situation in which current employees lack...

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Job Creation: What Really Works?

Hayes, David - In: Tennessee's Business 21 (2012) 1, pp. 26-28

Promises to create jobs could spell trouble, or one of these proposals may work, or maybe we'll just wait long enough for the economy to fix itself.

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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States

Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and …

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Lean production, workforce development and operational performance

Uhrin, Ákos; Bruque-Cámara, Sebastian; … - In: Management decision : MD 55 (2017) 1, pp. 103-118

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Strategic flexibility analysis of agrifood nanotechnology skill needs identification

Yawson, Robert M.; Greiman, Bradley C. - In: Technological forecasting & social change : an … 118 (2017), pp. 184-194

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Lean production, workforce development and operational performance

Uhrin, Ákos; Bruque-Cámara, Sebastian; … - In: Management Decision 55 (2017) 1, pp. 103-118

influence of workforce development on the relationship between lean production and operational performance. To test the … industry. Findings Results highlight the indispensable role of workforce development in the implementation phase of lean …

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