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Clarke, Andrew - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 29 (1997) 6, pp. 177-183

Summarizes the Industry and Parliament Trust’s Study Group survey of 40 Trust member companies which together employ over a million people and have a cumulative turnover of more than £100,000 million. The respondents were all at least at senior management level. The study group found that the...

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Personal competencies, organizational competencies, and employability

Civelli, Franco - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 30 (1998) 2, pp. 48-52

In recent years, it has become more and more important to recognize people’s characteristics which are no longer “immutable”. Hence the path followed with competences, the approach in the organizational world called “the competence based approach”. “Employability” highlights a...

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The Small Firm Illusion

Wellens, John - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 17 (1985) 1, pp. 3-7

The small firm, self‐employed syndrome must be recognised as one of the key areas requiring an entirely new approach in the next stage of industrial/economic development. A new side to the production economy, producing custom‐built artefacts for highly specialised purposes, will require...

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Second chance schools spread across Europe

In: Industrial and Commercial Training 31 (1999) 3

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Jobs growth driven by customers and IT

In: Industrial and Commercial Training 31 (1999) 6

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Small firms benefit from being 'family-friendly'

In: Industrial and Commercial Training 32 (2000) 3

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Professional Training as a Tool of Skill Building and Morale Enhancement

Barton, Laurence - In: Executive Development 5 (1992) 2

At no time is professional training more important for employees than during difficult economic periods. With smaller budgets and a reduced workforce, management can introduce professional training programmes as a means of increasing staff morale while concurrently communicating a message that...

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Gender inequality in employment: Editors' introduction

Fleetwood, Steve - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 29 (2010) 3, pp. 221-238

employment and policies designed to eliminate or ameliorate it. When this is brought into focus, some fundamental shortcomings in …: establishes that gender inequality in employment exists; considers the main causes of gender inequality in employment; and … far more thoroughly on the causes of gender inequality in employment, and tailor their policies to address them …

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Migrant employees in Germany: personnel structures and practices

Ortlieb, Renate; Sieben, Barbara - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 29 (2010) 4, pp. 364-379

to demonstrate that their employment opportunities are outcomes of diversity strategies – i.e. patterns of personnel … strategies are tightly related to personnel structures and practices. The best employment opportunities and career prospects for …

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Vocational status and perceived well‐being of workers with disabilities

Konrad, Alison M.; Moore, Mark E.; Doherty, Alison J.; … - In: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal 31 (2012) 2, pp. 100-123

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the different employment statuses of under‐employment …, temporary employment, unemployment and non‐participation in the labor force are associated with perceived well‐being among … Limitation Survey (PALS) conducted by Statistics Canada to develop six categories of employment status. OLS regression analysis …

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