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Wheelock, Verner, Ed. – 1981
This report presents keynote papers and summaries of panel discussions from a conference dealing with such issues as future career patterns in the United Kingdom (UK), the impact of microelectronic technology on the workforce, and the role of education in preparing persons for careers in an information society. Verner Wheelock describes the growth…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Education Work Relationship, Electronic Equipment, Employment Opportunities
Download full textRouth, Frederick B.; Waldo, Everett A. – 1974
Separate papers address the following topics in the proceedings of this Regional Civil Rights Conference: impacting equal opportunity in public employment; strengthening state and local agencies, and improving relationships among those agencies and between them, the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights, and other federal agencies; strengthening the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Civil Rights, Conference Reports
American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC. – 1990
This document contains 19 papers on work and second careers presented at a conference on aging. The papers, grouped into themes of trends and implications, resourceful roles, resources, and an agenda for the future, include the following: "Demographic Potential and the Quiet Revolution" (Opening Remarks by Robert A. Harootyan); "Work/Second…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Community Services, Demography, Employer Employee Relationship
Sheppard, Harold L., Ed. – 1990
This book contains seven chapters on work and older workers based on an international symposium held at the University of South Florida in 1989. Chapter titles and authors are as follows: (1) "The Corporate Sector's Stake in Older Workers" (Daniel Knowles); (2) "A Seller's Market for Older Workers" (Audrey Freedman); (3) "Retirees' Reentry into…
Descriptors: Early Retirement, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1988
This report summarizes the presentations and discussions at a conference on contingent labor sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. The first two sections are introductory: (1) "Introduction to the Role of Contingent Labor" (Kathleen Christensen, Mary Murphree); and (2) "Between Now and the Year 2000: A Glimpse of the Workplace" (Jill Houghton…
Descriptors: Consultants, Cost Effectiveness, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 2000
This publication contains materials from a forum on the changing nature of work (CNW) that brought together researchers and research users to hear how to use findings to improve vocational education and training (VET) in Australia. An overview of the program and biographical information on presenters and panel members follow. The next section…
Descriptors: Administration, Adult Education, Developed Nations, Dislocated Workers
Mower, Eleanor – 1997
In September 1997, more than 900 corporate leaders, educators, work force development professionals, coalition members, employment and training specialists and government officials participated in a conference focused on the new realities in the work force and workplace. The conference featured papers on such topics as the implications of a global…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Business, Conferences, Corporations
Habeck, Rochelle V., Ed.; And Others – 1985
This volume contains the following presentations: "An Overview of Policy Issues," by Donald Galvin; "Policies for the Employment of Disabled People,' by Norman Acton; "A Corporate Perspective," by Jane Belau; "The Future of Work for People with Disabilities--A View from Great Britain," by Paul Cornes; "A…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Cooperative Programs
Guggenheim, Eric Fries, Ed. – 2002
This document contains 11 papers from a 2-day meeting on the principles, practice, and effectiveness of Jobrotation, which denotes a European Union program of investing in human capital by giving employees the opportunity to temporarily leave their posts for training without any major disturbance in the production process. The following papers are…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Articulation (Education), Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
