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Direct linkGivens, Marlee, Ed.; Slutskaya, Sofia, Ed. – ALA Editions, 2022
Technical services departments are increasingly expected to do more with less, which means that finding a balance between meeting service demands and developing staff knowledge and skills is more challenging than ever. Today's next gen catalogs, changing cataloging rules, and diverse formats and delivery models demand that technical services…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Libraries, Library Services, Staff Development
Peer reviewedHarteis, Christian, Ed.; Gijbels, David, Ed.; Kyndt, Eva, Ed. – Professional and Practice-based Learning, 2022
The volume comprises a variety of research approaches that seek to explore and understand employees' learning and development through and for work. Working life reveals challenges through technological, economic and societal development that can only rudimentarily be addressed by formal education and training. Workplace learning becomes more and…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Employees, Professional Identity, Change
Hamidullah, Madinah F., Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021
Public affairs and nonprofit program administrators and directors interested in (or tasked with) implementing undergraduate programs require a resource where they can find information for recruiting and retaining the next wave of public and nonprofit workers. While similar to graduate public affairs programs, undergraduate programs may differ in…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Public Affairs Education, Personnel Selection, Outcomes of Education
Download full textCommittee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2020
In January 2020, the Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board (CED) embarked on the 2020 election project, releasing monthly Solutions Briefs that have been updated to address the dramatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and are compiled in this Compendium. The objective is to analyze the most important business and economic…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Training, Labor Force Development
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2015
"Research Messages 2014" is a collection of summaries of research published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) in 2014 in the context of changing economic, industrial, social and education conditions, organised under the following broad categories: (1) Productivity: to sustain and build Australia's human…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Postsecondary Education
Rothwell, William J., Ed.; Gerity, Patrick E., Ed. – Community College Press (NJ3), 2008
"Linking Workforce Development to Economic Development: A Casebook for Community Colleges" is a compilation of best practice examples, which illustrate what it takes for community colleges to achieve their goal of helping people acquire education and skills, helping employers, supporting communities, and building the nation. The book is…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Labor Force Development, Economic Development, Best Practices
Griffin, Tabatha, Ed.; Beddie, Francesca, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2011
One of the challenges facing Australia is the ageing of the population. Of major concern, especially to government, is that the dependency ratio--a measure of the burden that economically active persons carry by supporting dependent persons--will increase significantly unless older people keep working or immigration is used to change the…
Descriptors: Employment Services, Employment Potential, Maturity (Individuals), Age Discrimination
American Society for Training and Development, Ames, IA. Iowa Chapter. – 1987
Based on a needs assessment survey of American Society for Training and Development members, this sourcebook provides practical information for trainers in business and industry. The guide is organized in five chapters: "Program Evaluation: A Model for Technical Programs" (Dan Gehler); "Transfer of Training: Readiness--Have We Thought about It"…
Descriptors: Career Development, Industrial Training, Job Training, Management Development
2000
This packet contains three papers from a symposium on developing employee competence. The first paper, "Coaching in Organizations: Self-Assessment of Competence" (Gary N. McLean, Min-Hsun [Christine] Kuo), reports on development and pilot-testing of an instrument to identify the developmental needs of managers and peers to function more…
Descriptors: Adults, Competence, Competency Based Education, Educational Needs
Rosenfeld, Stuart A. – 1995
This book about new technology at two-year colleges contains two parts. Part one includes the following chapters: (1) "Introduction"; (2) "Toward the Vanguard of Industrial Modernization"; (3) "Learning Who Does What and How Well: Technology Education and Modernization Services";(4) "Structuring Community Colleges' Services"; (5) "Delivering the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Development, Economic Development, Emerging Occupations
Karmel, Tom, Ed.; Beddie, Francesca, Ed.; Dawe, Susan, Ed. – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) commissioned six leading thinkers to offer insights into what is meant by a training market, constraints upon that market and the areas for improvement in the system which would allow consumers greater choice. These papers, along with responses and an introduction by NCVER's Managing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Job Training, Labor Force Development
Tracey, William R., Ed. – 1994
This revised handbook on the theory and practice of human resources management and development (HRM/D) focuses on people management and the personnel development processes. The book's 18 parts and 102 chapters by 107 contributors provide authoritative and comprehensive information on every aspect of modern HRM/D. Part 1 provides an overview of…
Descriptors: Employee Assistance Programs, Employer Employee Relationship, Human Resources, Job Training
Tollefson, Terrence A.; Garrett, Rick L.; Ingram, William G. – 1999
In 1990 a study was conducted whose purpose was to establish empirically the degree to which governance of each state community college system was centralized or decentralized. This data would provide information on which to base decisions for changing governance structures. The 1990 study was replicated in 1997. A 100% response rate was obtained…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges
Esbeck, Tim, Comp.; Falcone, Lisa, Ed. – 1993
In developing this compendium of exemplary economic development practices among small and/or rural two-year colleges, the American Association of Community Colleges Commission on Small/Rural Community Colleges (CSMCC) sent out a call for program descriptions to all community colleges with less than 3,000 full-time employees or that were…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Economic Development
A Collection of Original Essays on Curriculum for the Workplace. EAE604 Curriculum and Competencies.
Deakin Univ., Victoria (Australia). – 1994
This publication contains six essays that offer a range of practical and theoretical perspectives on work-related curriculum. It is part of the study materials for the one-semester distance education unit, Curriculum and Competencies, in the Open Campus Program at Deakin University (Australia). An introduction proposes a course design and pedagogy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Competency Based Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
