ISBN : 9780198828013
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future?
Introduction
John Buchanan, David Finegold, Ken Mayhew, and Chris Warhurst: Skills and Training: Multiple Targets, Shifting Terrain
Section I: Concepts, Definitions, and Measurements of Skill
1 Jane Bryson: Disciplinary Perspectives on Skill
2 Cathie Jo Martin: Skill Builders and the Evolution of National Vocational Training Systems
3 Jonathan Payne: The Changing Meaning of Skill: Still Contested, Still Important
4 Chris Warhurst, Chris Tilly, and Mary Gatta: A New Social Construction of Skill
5 Michael J. Handel: Measuring Job Content: Skills, Technology, and Management Practices
6 Gordon Stanley: Accreditation and Assessment in Vocational Education and Training
Section II: Education, Training, and the Development of Workforce Skills
7 Paul Dalziel: Education and Qualifications as Skills
8 John Polesel: Pre-Employment Skill Formation in Australia and Germany
9 Robert I. Lerman: Skill Development in Middle-Level Occupations: The Role of Apprenticeship Training
10 Martin Humburg and Rolf Van der Velden: What is Expected of Higher Education Graduates in the Twenty-First Century?
11 Lorna Unwin: Employer-Led In-Work Training and Skill Formation: The Challenges of Multi-Varied and Contingent Phenomena
12 Mark Stuart and Tony Huzzard: Unions, the Skills Agenda, and Workforce Development
13 Gunter Schmid: A Working Lifetime of Skill and Training Needs
Section III: Skills Demand and Deployment
14 David W. Livingston: Skill Under-utilization
15 David Ashton, Caroline Lloyd, and Chris Warhurst: Business Strategies and Skills
16 Alan Felstead, Duncan Gallie, and Francis Green: Measuring Skills Stock, Job Skills, and Skills Mismatch
Section IV: Skill Outcomes
17 Craig Holmes: The Individual Benefits of Investing in Skills
18 Irena Grugulis, Craig Holmes, and Ken Mayhew: The Economic and Social Benefits of Skills
Section V: Differing Skill Systems: The Levels of Determination
19 Hugh Lauder, Phillip Brown, and David Ashton: Theorizing Skill Formation in the Global Economy
20 Gerhard Bosch: Different National Skill Systems
21 John Buchanan, Pauline Anderson, and Gail Power: Skill Ecosystems
22 Alice Lam and David Marsden: Employment Systems, Skills, and Knowledge
Section VI: Differing Skill Systems: The Dynamics of Development in a Global Economy
23 Caroline Smith: Skill Demands and Developments in the Advanced Economies
24 Johnny Sung and Arwen Raddon: Approaches to Skills in the Asian Developmental States
25 Mingwei Liu and David Finegold: Emerging Economic Powers: The Transformation of the Skills Systems in China and India
Section VII: Current Challenges
26 Stuart W. Elliott: Projecting the Impact of Information Technology on Work and Skills in the 2030s
27 James Wickham: International Skill Flows and Migration
28 Mari Sako: Professional Skills: Impact of Comparative Political Economy
29 Wendy Loretto, Chris Phillipson, and Sarah Vickerstaff: Skills and Training for the Older Population: Training the New Work Generation
30 Leesa Wheelahan: Rethinking Skills Development: Moving Beyond Competency-Based Training
31 Lynn Gambin and Terence Hogarth: Who Pays for Skills? Differing Perspectives on Who Should Pay and Why
32 Ewart Keep: Current Challenges: Policy Lessons and Implications