scholarly journals Skills Gap – A Strategy for Increasing Knowledge Worker Supply & Demand

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Gregg Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Skills Gap ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
The Face ◽  
Market Needs ◽  
The Unemployed

The U.S. Economy has been and continues to be burdened with a “Skills Gap” where the skills of the available workforce are mismatched with the skilled talent needs of employer. The skills gap is especially evident among knowledge workers.  Millions of people in the US are looking for jobs while millions of skilled jobs remain open. The unemployed and the underemployed in general do not posess the professional skills necessary for the jobs that are available. The conundrum is this recognized shortage of skilled knowledge workers has not led to the expected increase in salaries traditional economic analysis would suggest. This paper explains the true economic analysis of the skills gap in terms of an economic “wedge” that supresses knowledge worker saleries in the face of worker shortages. The paper recognizes a systemic disharmony between the momentum of traditional higher education and the rapidly changing needs and demands for professional skill sets in the marketplace. Traditional academic institutions are not predisposed to creating job-ready professionals that meet market needs, and private sector businesses are not positioned to fill the professional education, training and development gaps that exist. Significant opportunities exist to reposition the players to cerate opportunities for both academic intuitions and private sector companies to address the skills gap problem efficiently and effectively.

A assistência estudantil no IF Baiano Campus Santa Inês em tempos de pandemia de Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. e051001
Author(s):  
Nivia Barreto dos Anjos ◽  
Ângelo Francisco de Souza Andrade ◽  
Nelian Costa Nascimento ◽  
Tailan Bomfim Andrade
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequality ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Assistance Program ◽  
The Face ◽  
Student Assistance ◽  
Santa Inês

Este artigo apresenta a sistematização das ações de Assistência Estudantil realizadas pelo IF Baiano Campus Santa Inês em 2020 em tempos de pandemia de Covid-19. O objetivo geral consiste em demonstrar a relevância que as ações de Assistência Estudantil têm diante da situação de vulnerabilidade social que vivenciam estudantes que enfrentam a desigualdade social, fruto de um capitalismo perverso, a qual foi agravada no período da pandemia. A grande questão é tentar identificar como em 2020 o IF Baiano Campus Santa Inês tem impactado a vida dos estudantes em situação de vulnerabilidade social durante essa emergência sanitária. A metodologia adotada baseia-se em pesquisa sobre os relatórios das entrevistas e visitas domiciliares, com recorte temporal de 2020; como também na análise das ações desenvolvidas para estes estudantes diante da situação de emergência decorrente da pandemia. Trata-se de um estudo de caso que procura pesquisar a experiência. O recorte teórico baseia-se na concepção de Assistência Estudantil como um direito amparado legalmente pelo Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil, e nos estudos sobre desigualdade social na sociedade pós-moderna. E com base na pesquisa da experiência, os dados de Assistência Estudantil serão apresentados, explicitados em sete ações desenvolvidas em 2020. Já as considerações finais procurarão anunciar que o IF Baiano Campus Santa Inês tem feito diferença, impactado a vida de estudantes e contribuído para o fortalecimento da Política de Educação do Estado da Bahia durante a pandemia de Covid-19, principalmente dos estudantes em situação de vulnerabilidade social. Palavras-chave: Desigualdade Social; Neoliberalismo; Capitalismo; Educação Profissional.     Abstract: This article presents the systematization of student assistance actions carried out by IF Baiano Campus Santa Inês in 2020 in Times of pandemic covid-19. The general objective is to demonstrate the relevance that student assistance actions have in the face of the situation of social vulnerability that students who face social inequality, the result of a perverse capitalism, which was aggravated in the period of the pandemic. The big question is to try to identify how the IF Baiano Campus Santa Inês in 2020 has impacted the lives of students in situations of social vulnerability during this health emergency. The methodology adopted is based on research on the reports of interviews and home visits, with a time frame of 2020; as well as in the analysis of the actions developed for these students in the face of the emergency situation resulting from the pandemic.  This is a case study that seeks to research the experience. The theoretical framework is based on the conception of Student Assistance as a right legally based by the National Student Assistance Program, and on studies on social inequality in postmodern society. And based on the research of experience, the Data of Student Assistance will be presented, explained in 7 actions developed in 2020. The final considerations will seek to announce that the IF Baiano Campus Santa Inês has made a difference, impacted the lives of students and contributed to the strengthening of the Education Policy of the State of Bahia during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially of students in situations of social vulnerability. Keywords: Social Inequality; Neoliberalism; Capitalism; Professional Education.

scholarly journals Undergraduate dental sudents' perspectives about experiences in primary care for their education in the field of health

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 1255-1265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Augusto Thiene Leme ◽  
Antônio Carlos Pereira ◽  
Marcelo de Castro Meneghim ◽  
Fábio Luiz Mialhe
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Supervised Training ◽  
The Face ◽  
Learning Scenarios ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Service Contact

Supervised training periods in primary care have been used as spaces for teaching and extension in the area of health, making it feasible to include undergraduates in concrete teaching-learning scenarios. The aim of this study was to analyze the perceptions of dental students about the importance of supervised training periods in Family Health Units to their professional education. The sample consisted of 185 students who answered the question: What is your opinion about the importance of this training period in SUS to your professional education? Comment on this experience and its positive and negative aspects The responses were analyzed by the quali-quantitative Collective Subject Discourse (CSD) technique. The students appreciated learning through practice in the service; contact with professionals from other areas; opportunity for technical-operative improvement and demonstrated sensitivity in the face of social reality, although they appeared to be concerned about being absent from the faculty, arguing that they were being prejudiced as regards their intramural clinical productivity, exhaustively demanded of them. It was concluded that students placed value on the extramural experience, however, it was perceived that there was still a predominant influence of focus on intramural clinical training.

scholarly journals Drucker: On Learning (to Learn) Management

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Kumar Srinivasan
Keyword(s):  
Life Span ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Learning To Learn ◽  
Feedback Analysis ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Formative Experiences

This paper argues that there is an intrinsic link between the concepts of “learning-to-learn” and the “knowledge worker” in the work of Peter Drucker. This is because the increasing life-span of knowledge workers and the decreasing life-span of organizations in the contemporary world have changed the underlying nature of the “social contract” that has hitherto governed the relationship between workers and organizations. Furthermore, these changes are forcing all stakeholders to confront the demands of learning-to-learn and self-management as the necessary modalities of professional and social mobility for knowledge workers in the global economy. Drucker therefore argues that formalizing an ethic of learning-to-learn will provide both knowledge workers and organizations, by implication, with a competitive advantage in “the next society.” Understanding the importance of learning practices and knowledge management will also make it possible for knowledge workers and knowledge-based organizations to continually renew themselves despite the intensity of competition and the relentless demands for individuation, differentiation, and innovation in the global economy. Drucker cites his own career as an example of such a possibility by demonstrating that “intellectual omnivorousness” can serve as an emotional and intellectual reservoir of possibilities for knowledge workers over a long life span. What knowledge workers need then is a “method of study.” In addition to spelling out a possible model of study based on his own formative experiences, Drucker also cites the sources from which he initially learnt the modalities that he calls for in a general theory of learning-to-learn in knowledge workers and organizations. The essential modality in making knowledge “actionable” for Drucker is “feedback analysis,” a practice that he identifies with the Jesuits and the Calvinists in Europe. In other words, decision-makers must have the confidence and patience to write decision reports and check to see if they have been able to anticipate the consequences of a given decision through feedback analysis. They must also develop a high degree of self-awareness on what constitutes their cognitive style by deciding whether their style of information-processing demands the style of a “reader or listener” and act accordingly. This relates to the larger necessity of acting from strengths rather than from weaknesses in Drucker's thought. And, finally, the knowledge worker must be willing to learn from the experience of artists, musicians, and scientists on the possibilities of creativity in old-age and internalize the moral obligation to pursue perfection whenever or wherever possible.

Lifelong Learning in Developing Knowledge Workers

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Halim Abdul Majid ◽  
Nor Bizura Seth
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Codified Knowledge ◽  
College Of Business ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Universiti Utara Malaysia ◽  
Developing Knowledge

This monograph discusses the importance of lifelong learning in developing knowledge workers and human capital. Facets of lifelong learning, knowledge workers and human capital are highlighted to provide basic understanding to all readers. The facets of lifelong learning include accessibility to learning, investment for learning, methods and contents of learning, values of learning, direction and guidance in learning and learning opportunities closer to home. Meanwhile, the facets of knowledge worker are problem solving, using intellectual skills, requiring a high level of autonomy, emphasizing on quality of judgment, using unique processes, possessing un-codified knowledge, sourcing between his ears and using knowledge and information to add to deeper knowledge and information. There are several individuals whom we would like to thank for their contributions to this monograph. This monograph has benefited greatly from the inputs, comments and expertise as well as working experience of all contributors. We also would like to thank the School of Business Management, the College of Business, Universiti Utara Malaysia, the Research Innovation and Management Center (RIMC) of Universiti Utara Malaysia and the top leaders of the University for their encouragement and support. Those who have contributed directly or indirectly toward the publication of this monograph also deserve our appreciation.

Disciplining Innovation? Mobile Information Artefacts in a Telco Innovation Center

2011 ◽  
pp. 351-366
Author(s):  
Chris Russell
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Consumer Good ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Mobile Information ◽  
Good For ◽  
The Devil

This chapter introduces the pattern of bargains with the devil as a means of examining the adoption and use of mobile information artefacts. It argues that, in contrast to other attempts to impose discipline on innovation work practices, the introduction of mobile information artefacts is requested by knowledge workers. Vendor advertising plays a tempting role: proclaiming that the artefact is a consumer good for the knowledge-worker and a productivity tool for the employer. This enlightenment--and deception- -results in knowledge workers persuading their employer by appropriating the productivity discourse of the vendor. There follows a honeymoon phase of play and pleasure for these “techies.” But this is the prelude to destruction, as the knowledge-worker faces demands for their promised productivity. The artefact disciplines their innovation work, even erodes it; thus the situation of the employment relationship within relations of consumption results in the knowledge-worker (and their employer) being exploited by the vendor.

scholarly journals Narrating ‘potential’: older knowledge workers’ anticipatory narratives about their future employment

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Karen Handley ◽  
Birgit den Outer
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Intellectual Assets ◽  
Narrative Patterns ◽  
Employment Potential ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article examines the narratives of 24 knowledge workers aged 48–58 as they anticipate their future employment and employability. The term knowledge worker is used to indicate occupational roles such as software engineer, academic, architect, manager and lawyer, where work involves non-routine problem-solving using ‘intellectual assets’. Four narrative patterns about future employment are presented: winding down, reorienting ‘self’ away from work, seeking progression and renewal. These patterns reveal contrasting self-evaluations of employability and potential. We argue that employability is not a straightforward function of human capital, which usually refers to experience, knowledge and qualifications. We show through our data how judgements about a person's employability – both self-evaluations as well as evaluations by others – are complicated by social norms and cultural understandings of ‘potential’. Strategies to signal one's potential become more complex and sometimes less effective for older knowledge workers. We contend that a person's age influences others’ evaluations of their employment potential, such that the relationship between attributed merit (based largely on past experience) and attributed potential (based on assumptions about a person's future) is inverted as workers become older. The findings have implications for public policies such as ‘Extending Working Lives’. Policies that remove legal and institutional barriers to extended working lives may be only partially successful without changes to cultural attitudes about older workers’ employment potential.

Instilling affective commitment: insights on what makes knowledge workers want to stay

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharmila Jayasingam ◽  
Muhiniswari Govindasamy ◽  
Sharan Kaur Garib Singh
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Affective Commitment ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Knowledge Retention ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – This study aims to examine factors that may influence affective organizational commitment among knowledge workers. The five final factors considered in this study include knowledge-sharing culture, autonomy, workplace value identity, promotion practices and, finally, management support. Gender was included as the moderator for the aforementioned relationships. Design/methodology/approach – A sample of 522 knowledge workers from manufacturing, retail and service sector anonymously completed a structured questionnaire that included measures of the variables of this study. Hierarchical regression was used to test the hypotheses. Findings – The findings provide evidence on the possible factors that organizations need to focus on and improvise to ensure the “want to remain in the organization” sentiment is enhanced among knowledge workers. Workplace value identity and knowledge-sharing culture were identified as the pertinent factors in influencing affective commitment. Gender was found to moderate the relationship between unfair promotion practice, knowledge-sharing culture and affective commitment. Research limitations/implications – One obvious limitation is that the sample of this study is sourced from a pool of knowledge workers. This limits our ability to conduct a comparative analysis with non-knowledge workers. Hence, future research could expand the model of this study to compare these relationships among knowledge and non-knowledge worker. Practical implications – Understanding the impact of these factors in a knowledge-based context helps firms prioritize and focus on important factors that can improve the level of affective commitment among knowledge workers. Doing so facilitates knowledge retention and prevents loss of knowledge. Originality/value – From a knowledge-based view, this paper identified factors that play an important role in retaining knowledge workers through enhanced affective commitment. With the changing workforce, the findings of this study show how knowledge-sharing culture and achievement orientation dominate affective commitment in a knowledge-based context.

Déshydratation des produits de décontamination des cendres volantes d'incinérateur de déchets municipaux

1999 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 736-745 ◽  
Author(s):  
C Marcotte ◽  
J F Blais ◽  
Guy Mercier ◽  
G Roberge
Keyword(s):  
Fly Ash ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Dry Weight ◽  
Filter Press ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Vacuum Filter ◽  
Total Solids ◽  
Commercial Polymers

Municipal solid waste combustion fly ash handling costs are increasingly expensive because of the increase of the landfilling cost. A research team from the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS-Eau) developed, in association with the private sector, a fly ash decontamination process. Once treated by this process, two types of sludges are produced. The first type of sludge consists of a decontaminated ash, while the second is a residual metal sludge. This research project aimed to show that these sludges could be dewatered economically with standard filtration devices, under normal operating conditions. This paper demonstrates that sludge conditioning can easily be achieved by adding a small amount of commercial polymers, [Formula: see text]0.5 kg per ton of dry weight. Two types of commercial dehydration equipment were compared: a filter press and a vacuum filter. For the ash sludge, these two types of equipment produced a filtration cake containing more than 40% in total solids. For the metal sludge, total solids were 20% for the filter press. Vacuum filter efficiency was significantly lower with a total solids of only 13%. An economic analysis showed that the use of a filter press for both sludges was the best choice.Key words: fly ash, decontamination, dehydration, filter press, vacuum filter, conditioning, metal.

scholarly journals Employee Turnover and Knowledge Management in the Czech Republic

2015 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucie Vnoučková ◽  
Hana Urbancová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Personal Growth ◽  
Employee Turnover ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Basic Approaches

Knowledge economy regards employee knowledge as a most important asset. It is a priority task to ensure systematic knowledge continuity of those employees who are the holders of critical knowledge. The aim of the article is to analyse the causes of mobility of knowledge workers and categorise types of employees and mobility according to the future development of an employee’s career. The research areas, i.e. ensuring knowledge continuity and employee turnover were analysed based on the premise of significant relation between those two areas. The data were collected in organizations in the Czech Republic. Surveys were drawn across sectors to ensure representativeness of the outcomes. The outputs revealed two basic approaches to maintaining knowledge inside organizations. Employees can be divided into knowledge workers and remainder, who seek only security. A knowledge worker who decides to transfer is not motivated by the amount of salary (they do not mind a lower level of remuneration); on the contrary they suffer due to an unclear vision on the part of the organization, where they used to work; they cannot stay in conditions where there is no possibility to participate on personal growth. Future research in this area should focus on the return of investments in the knowledge and employee learning, training and retention.

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