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The world is experiencing significant, largely economic and sociotechnical, induced change. These induced changes are meaningful with a function of people taking collective actions around common beliefs. These changes are more than jargon, cliché and hyperbole, and they are effecting major...
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workforce training and productivity in European Union original members states. Training activities are modelled as intangible … training on productivity, both direct and interacted with ICT, with different impacts in services than in production industries …
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We study the effect of product market volatility on a firm’s choice between multiskilling and specialization. We construct a theoretical model that captures the tradeoff between multiskilling (which gives greater flexibility to reassign workers in production) and specialization (which provides...
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Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...
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This paper investigates the impact of training and education on productivity, in particular linking to a literature … that emphasizes the need to reorganise production following adoption of ICT. The paper examines training at the total … examines the characteristics of those who receive training and outlines the incentives that underlie this. …
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In this paper the issues from the personnel economics has been investigated. The issues such as training of workers …
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Training is the act of increasing the knowledge and skill of an employee for doing particular job .The training is to … acquire new skill, technical knowledge, problemsolving, etc. Training improves the performance of employees on present jobs … and prepares them for taking up new assignments in the future. Training also helps in the development of the employees …
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This paper compares the skills and knowledge possessed by qualified of tourism and hotel sector with those expected by the industry; compares also the importance of specific skills and knowledge profile by school teachers and businesses. Research has found that: 1) the qualified are...
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particular towards improving the education and training of people throughout the life cycle. Similarly, in the perspective of …
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The primary purpose of this paper is to explore the potential for EU-SILC data to deepen our understanding of the determinants of inequality in workers’ formal life-long learning (LLL) in Europe. In particular we investigate the incidence of personal, job-specific and firm-specific...
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