scholarly journals Exploring the Revolution on Jobs and its Overall Challenges in the Field of Engineering and Technology with Statistical Aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 3676-3681
Keyword(s):  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Future Research ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Expected Information ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The 19Th Century

Technology has been developing instantaneously since the beginning of the 19th century from the inventions of light bulb by Thomas Edison to the space shuttle by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Technology contributes to the GDP growth, transforms work force, enhances business innovation and creates jobs. Rapid development of technology has created many newer industries and professions for instance, Facebook created worldwide 182,000 jobs (World Economic Forum, 2016) and it is expected information technology sector will grow by 22 percent by 2020 (World Economic Forum, 2013). Nevertheless, technology is creating many employments; it is also replacing many other jobs with technological breakthrough (Arntz,Gregory &Zierahn, 2016). The study of this paper is to identify the technology challenges and its implication to the future job market, economy as well as human resources practices. The paper also suggests means of addressing the areas and recommendations for future research in this area.

scholarly journals Exploring the revolution on Jobs and its overall challenges in the field of Engineering and technology with Current and Future aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 617-622
Keyword(s):  
Space Shuttle ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Future Research ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Technology Sector ◽  
Expected Information ◽  
Engineering And Technology ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The 19Th Century

Technology has been developing instantaneously since the beginning of the 19th century from the inventions of light bulb by Thomas Edison to the space shuttle by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). Technology contributes to the GDP growth, transforms work force, enhances business innovation and creates jobs. Rapid development of technology has created many newer industries and professions for instance, Facebook created worldwide 182,000 jobs (World Economic Forum, 2016) and it is expected information technology sector will grow by 22 percent by 2020 (World Economic Forum, 2013). Nevertheless, technology is creating many employments; it is also replacing many other jobs with technological breakthrough (Arntz,Gregory &Zierahn, 2016). The study of this paper is to identify the technology challenges and its implication to the future job market, economy as well as human resources practices. The paper also suggests means of addressing the areas and recommendations for future research in this area.

scholarly journals Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Critical Review, Practical Applications, and Prospects for Future Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1919
Author(s):  
Aries Purwanto ◽  
Janez Sušnik ◽  
Franciscus X. Suryadi ◽  
Charlotte de Fraiture
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Framework Development ◽  
The Impact

This paper presents knowledge gaps and critiques on the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus that have emerged since the concept of the WEF nexus was proposed by the World Economic Forum and the Bonn 2011 Conference. Furthermore, this study analyses current innovations on the WEF nexus concept, applications, and impacts during the period of 2012–2020. This begins by reviewing ten WEF nexus frameworks developed by international organizations and researchers. On this basis, several gaps and omissions in nexus frameworks are obvious in almost all developed frameworks. Studies that start to address some of these gaps are analysed, but they are relatively few and do not address all gaps. Several proposed improvements to nexus frameworks are identified to narrow the gaps and put the concept into practical implementation in WEF resources management and governance. Four principles and the perspective of “from local to global” for future WEF nexus framework development and analysis are suggested to ensure that the security of water, energy, and food resources can be achieved sustainably in local communities. This will improve the impact of national and global ambitions on WEF security.

Principles of Evolutionary Modernization of Transition Economies

2009 ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Rustamov
Keyword(s):  
National Culture ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Transition Economy ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Beneficial Use ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Comparative Advantages ◽  
World Economic

The article considers strategic issues of modernization of the transition economy. The analysis is based on the methodology of the World Economic Forum where special attention is paid to the sequence of the transformation stages. The main conclusion is that modernization should combine implementation of the governance mechanisms with the beneficial use of comparative advantages of the national culture. In fact, modernization of the transition economy should be evolutionary. It is precisely this course of development that is relevant for Azerbaijan which has successfully upgraded its economy in the recent years.

The World Economic Forum Principles on "Climate Governance on Corporate Boards": can soft law help to face climate change around the world?

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Sabrina Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Boards Of Directors ◽  
Soft Law ◽  
Corporate Boards ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Financial Factor ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic

Climate change is a financial factor that carries with it risks and opportunities for companies. To support boards of directors of companies belonging to all jurisdictions, the World Economic Forum issued in January 2019 eight Principlescontaining both theoretical and practical provisions on: climate accountability, competence, governance, management, disclosure and dialogue. The paper analyses each Principle to understand scope and managerial consequences for boards and to evaluate whether the legal distinctions, among the various jurisdictions, may undermine the application of the Principles or, by contrast, despite the differences the Principles may be a useful and effective guidance to drive boards' of directors' conduct around the world in handling climate change challenges. Five jurisdictions are taken into consideration for this comparative analysis: Europe (and UK), US, Australia, South Africa and Canada. The conclusion is that the WEF Principles, as soft law, is the best possible instrument to address boards of directors of worldwide companies, harmonise their conduct and effectively help facing such global emergency.

Soft Force

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Anne McLarney
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Women's Leadership ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
Global Leader ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The Public Sphere

This chapter focuses on the work of Heba Raouf Ezzat. Ranked the thirty-ninth most influential Arab on Twitter, with over 100,000 followers, voted one of the hundred most powerful Arab women by ArabianBusiness.com, and elected a Youth Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, Raouf Ezzat has articulated and disseminated her Islamic politics in a global public sphere. Her writings and lectures develop an Islamic theory of women's political participation but simultaneously address other contested questions about women's leadership, women's work, and women's participation in the public sphere. Heba Raouf Ezzat is one of the most visible public figures in the Arab and Islamic world today, a visibility that began with her book on the question of women's political work in Islam, Woman and Political Work.

Gender Impact on the Enterprise Performance

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Oleksii V. Lyulyov ◽  
Oleksandra I. Karintseva ◽  
Andrii V. Yevdokymov ◽  
Hanna S. Ponomarova ◽  
Oleksandr O. Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
Board Members ◽  
Enterprise Performance ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
The World ◽  
World Economic ◽  
The Impact

The article describes the situation of gender equality in Ukraine and in the world during the last 5 years, identifies the leading countries in moving towards gender equality in various fields of life by analyzing the indicators of the Global Gender Gap Report of the World Economic Forum. These indicators include: Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, Political Empowerment, which are the part of a single index that determines the position of countries in the overall ranking. Based on the results of this analysis, Ukraine has improved value of gender equality index, although in the overall ranking of countries Ukraine has lost its position and dropped 11 ranks lower than in 2014. This means that, among all the countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum, there are countries that are moving much faster towards gender equality than Ukraine. In addition, the article includes the investigation of the gender representation among the board members of 5 enterprises of Ukraine for 2014-2017, which represent the leading sectors of the Ukrainian economy. The dynamics of changes in the level of performance of these enterprises using the return on assets (ROA) indicator is analyzed, the relationship between the leadership of the enterprises and the value of the ROA indicator is graphically presented. The obtained results do not give a clear answer about the gender impact on the enterprise performance. The reason for this is a number of factors, such as: insufficient statistical sampling of enterprises; the selected performance indicator of enterprise activities does not fully reflect the impact of the gender factor on enterprise activities; the methodology used in the work needs improvements, or it is necessary to choose a totally new approach to the analysis of the investigated issue under study. Gender representation among board members and its impact on enterprise performance should be investigated further. Key words: gender, gender equality, enterprise board members, return on assets.

Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen K. Reed
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Action Categorization ◽  
Visuospatial Reasoning ◽  
The World ◽  
Imperfect Knowledge ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Knowledge Strategies

Cognitive Skills You Need for the 21st Century begins with the Future of Jobs Report 2018 of the World Economic Forum that describes trending skills through the year 2022. To assist with the development of these skills, the book describes techniques that should benefit everyone. The 20 chapters occupy 6 sections on acquiring knowledge (comprehension, action, categorization, abstraction), organizing knowledge (matrices, networks, hierarchies), reasoning (visuospatial reasoning, imperfect knowledge, strategies), problem-solving (problems, design, dynamics), artificial intelligence (data sciences, explainable AI, information sciences, general AI), and education (complex systems, computational thinking, continuing education). Classical research, recent research, personal anecdotes, and a few exercises provide a broad introduction to this critical topic.

scholarly journals Improvements and Spatial Dependencies in Energy Transition Measures

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (13) ◽  
pp. 3802
Author(s):  
Marta Ewa Kuc-Czarnecka ◽  
Magdalena Olczyk ◽  
Marek Zinecker
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Spatial Error ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Spatial Dependencies ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Transition Index

This article aims to improve one of the newest energy transition measures—the World Economic Forum WEF Energy Transition Index (ETI) and find its driving forces. This paper proposes a new approach to correct the ETI structure, i.e., sensitivity analysis, which allows assessing the accuracy of variable weights. Moreover, the novelty of the paper is the use the spatial error models to estimate determinants of the energy transition on different continents. The results show that ETI is unbalanced and includes many variables of marginal importance for the shape of the final ranking. The variables with the highest weights in ETI did not turn out to be its most important determinants, which means that they differentiate the analysed countries well; nonetheless, they do not have sufficient properties of approximating the values of the ETI components. The most important components of ETI (with the highest information load) belong to the CO2 emissions per capita, the innovative business environment, household electricity prices, or renewable capacity buildout. Moreover, we identified the clustering of both ETI and its two main pillars in Europe, which is not observed in America and Asia. The identified positive spatial effects showing that European countries need much deeper cooperation to reach a successful energy transition.

‘Bonbibi’ Could Wait Till Our Boss Decides: Looking at the Changing Face of the Indian Sundarbans

2021 ◽  
pp. 239386172110146
Author(s):  
Prama Mukhopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Strong Impact ◽  
Interstate Migration ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Fishing Community ◽  
Indian Sundarbans ◽  
Local Perception ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
The Face ◽  
World Economic

Internal migration constitutes a major source of steady flow of population in India, and reports published by the World Economic Forum (WEF),1 2017 state that interstate migration in the country has doubled during 2001–2011, compared to the previous decade.2 In developing countries, such migration is often considered to be an effective way for income diversification for the economically marginalised sections of the society, even though its effect on ‘human development’ is oft debated. This article would engage with this debate and bring out how migration from the Indian part of the Sundarbans to other parts of the country is not only changing the demography of the region but is also having a strong impact on the local perception and attachment towards the deltaic landscape. By bringing in ethnographic details from a village in the Indian Sundarbans, which was predominately inhabited by the fishing community earlier, this article would bring out how traditional occupations like fishing are slowly losing their popularity in the face of the lure of out-migration, as the very identity of the ‘indigenous’ Sundarban fisher folks—who were once rightfully considered to be the true conservator of the forests—is changing. From there, this article would engage with the broader debate of rethinking whether migration can be considered as a positive indicator of development in such ecologically fragile areas like the Sundarban deltas, which used to indeed have a distinct economic, social and cultural life of its own.

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