The Workforce Shortage and Limited Sites of Care

This paper describes a qualitative survey of professional statisticians carried out in New Zealand in 2014. The aim of the study was to find out if the issues this group faced were consistent with those identified in the literature. The issues identified were integrity, legitimacy, isolation, workforce shortage, communication, and marginalisation. They represent points of frustration for statisticians that may impact on the future of the profession as it responds to increasing demands and higher expectations. We found that these issues resonated for many of the statisticians included in our study and we have discussed a number of strategies to address them. They include raising our profile, attracting a broader range of people to the profession, increasing our communication skills, raising the statistical literacy of the people we work with, and a commitment to making it easy to engage with our colleagues. First published November 2017 at Statistics Education Research Journal Archives

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Pharmacists increasingly offered starting bonuses to counter workforce shortage

The Pharmaceutical Journal ◽

10.1211/pj.2021.1.106671 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Workforce Shortage

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Resolving a Workforce Crisis in the U.S. Roofing Industry

Cases on Performance Improvement Innovation - Advances in Business Strategy and Competitive Advantage ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3673-5.ch011 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 191-207

Author(s):

John G. Schehl

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

Research Study ◽

Trade Association ◽

State University ◽

Arizona State University ◽

Workforce Shortage ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Labor Statistics ◽

Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽

The U.S

The National Roofing Contractors Association (NRCA), a nonprofit construction trade association established in 1886, was challenged to find a solution to overcome a severe industry workforce shortage that emerged as the economy recovered from the great recession. The NRCA leadership, staff, and other industry stakeholders focused on developing strategies to address the workforce crisis head-on and committed resources to develop a series of performance-based programs to overcome the crisis. The new initiatives relied on limited U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data to support development decisions. Aware that the available BLS data was insufficient, NRCA commissioned the Arizona State University (ASU) to conduct the roofing industry's first ever comprehensive demographics research study. New data gleaned from the research changed not only NRCA's approach to resolving the workforce crisis, but it may potentially change how the entire roofing industry operates.

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