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Copeland, Rebecca; Bruno, Debra; Epstein, Nadine – Rural Electrification Magazine, 1999
Driven by restructuring, marketplace competition, and technological change, rural electric co-ops are implementing early retirement and severance packages, instituting staffing changes to reflect changing functions and needed skills, hiring business managers to develop business strategies and marketing plans, providing consumer-choice advocates,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperatives, Economic Factors, Electrical Occupations
Crystal, John C.; Deems, Richard S. – Training and Development Journal, 1983
Redesigning jobs can be cost-effective as well as personnel-effective as organizations change to meet society's changes. The process of redesigning jobs, which allows an organization to use existing personnel and avoid the high cost of recruitment, hiring, and duplicative training, consists of asking the right questions and finding the answers to…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Job Development, Job Satisfaction, Job Training
Download full textFlynn, Patricia M. – 1992
This paper demonstrates that production life-cycle models provide a conceptual framework to analyze systematically the interrelationships between industrial and technological change and human resources. Section II presents the life-cycle model, focusing on its implications for the types and level of employment and skill requirements in an area.…
Descriptors: Competition, Dislocated Workers, Economic Development, Emerging Occupations
Araujo e Oliveira, Joao Batista – 1991
Case studies of five French firms illustrate the impact of new work technologies on training. Liquid Corporation has embarked on changes in production technology in response to market needs. Four aspects of the change process are as follows: creating the climate for change, selecting operators, defining new training requirements, and training for…
Descriptors: Automation, Case Studies, Developed Nations, Employment Practices
Koehoorn, Mieke; Lowe, Graham S.; Rondeau, Kent V.; Schellenberg, Grant; Wagar, Terry H. – 2002
Insights from a variety of research streams were synthesized to identify the key ingredients of a high-quality work environment in Canada's health care sector and ways of achieving high-quality workplaces in the sector. The following sets of interacting factors were considered: (1) the work environment and the human resource practices that shape…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cooperative Planning, Educational Research, Employer Employee Relationship
Verma, Anil; Lonti, Zsuzsanna – 2001
Changing workplace practices in Canada's government workplaces were examined. The study analyzed 774 responses (response rate, 53%) to the 1998 Survey of Workplace Issues in Government, which was a survey of government managers in Nova Scotia, Ontario, Manitoba, and Alberta. The findings of five case studies were also considered. The survey…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Case Studies, Compensation (Remuneration), Employer Employee Relationship
