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Cathcart, Stephen Michael – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This mixed method study examines HRD professionals' decision-making processes when making an organizational purchase of training. The study uses a case approach with a degrees of freedom analysis. The data to analyze will examine how HRD professionals in manufacturing select outside vendors human resource development programs for training,…
Descriptors: Human Resources, Labor Force Development, Professional Personnel, Decision Making
Bristow, Susan – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Employers of newly hired higher education graduates report their new workforce is not prepared. Further research was required to discover insights to the workforce readiness gap. This concurrent mixed methods study explored what competencies influenced employer's perceptions of the work-readiness of Information Systems (ISYS) undergraduate…
Descriptors: Employment Qualifications, College Graduates, Job Skills, Labor Force Development
Al-Buhairan, Fadi – ProQuest LLC, 2012
People with disabilities face a number of societal challenges that influence this vulnerable population to be less interested and motivated to pursue working. According to researchers, persuasive technologies are able to motivate intended users to change a targeted behavior. This study included the design, development, and evaluation of an…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Design, Disabilities, Employment
Cummins, Phyllis Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Workers are remaining in the labor force at older ages and despite their desire to work, those without jobs face unprecedented durations of unemployment. Many of the unemployed lack current skills for jobs in demand and need to either upgrade their skills or be trained for a new occupation to become reemployed. An aging workforce combined with…
Descriptors: Older Workers, Educational Attainment, Credentials, Community Colleges
Levy, Dayna Dunsmoor – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Equipping a healthcare workforce with leadership skills to drive change and innovation through the twenty-first century is imperative. This research measured outcomes of students' participation in a year-long leadership development program at a small, private, urban healthcare university in the northeastern United States. A mixed method approach…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Student Attitudes, Health Services, Labor Force Development
Kyeyune, Catherine – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In a global environment, growing business corporations have recognized the role diversity plays in business development. However, the human resource development (HRD) profession charged with the responsibility for developing any organization's human resources, has not defined what cultural competence is and its role in improving the…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Interpersonal Competence, Cross Cultural Training, Best Practices
Gonzalez, Jeffery Mark – ProQuest LLC, 2013
According to the National Center for Education Statistics (Aud et al., 2013), only 10.6% of students who started at a two-year institution in the 2003-2004 year successfully completed a baccalaureate degree from a four-year institution within six years. Two- and four-year institutions are looking for new strategies to improve transfer student…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Bachelors Degrees, Intercollegiate Cooperation, Two Year Colleges
Adcock-Shantz, Jennifer K. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Current research indicates that community colleges are facing what has been termed a "leadership crisis" due to the high number of Baby Boomers retiring and those planning to retire in the next several years (McCall, 2006; Bagnato, 2004; Shults, 2001). In 2006, the American Association of Community Colleges recommended community colleges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Baby Boomers, Retirement, Labor Needs
Metcalf, Heather E. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Considerable research, policy, and programmatic efforts have been dedicated to addressing the participation of particular populations in STEM for decades. Each of these efforts claims equity-related goals; yet, they heavily frame the problem, through pervasive STEM pipeline model discourse, in terms of national needs, workforce supply, and…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, STEM Education, Mixed Methods Research, Critical Theory
Taghavian, Alexander H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Workforce development represents a central priority in a comprehensive effort to create wealth, industry thickening, and broad-based prosperity. From the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, the Sacramento Region experienced anemic economic growth and remained behind the nation in job creation. Contextualized in the aftermath of the economic…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Economic Development, Geographic Regions, Economic Factors
Brundage, Tracy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The greatest challenge we face in the next ten years is the challenge of making sure we have a qualified workforce able to meet the demands of living in a global economy. To do this we will need to expand the capacity of our workforce development and educational system to meet the training needs of business and industry. In order to assess the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Laborers, Fuels, Control Groups