Workforce Development Strategies and Practices

This book is the second in a series of two volumes that reviews a broad range of workforce development strategies and practices in a period following the global financial crisis, when organisational stability and survival were foremost in leaders’ minds. Drawing mainly from a wide range of major res...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Short, Tom (Editor), Harris, Roger (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2014, 2014
Edition:1st ed. 2014
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Creating Capacity: a Common Framework to Safety Incident Investigation Herbert C Biggs, Tamara D Banks and Nathan Dovan
  • CONCLUSION
  • Adoption and Engagement Strategies in Workforce Development Roger Harris and Tom Short.   
  • Introduction
  • Workforce Development: Moving Perspectives to Practices Tom Short and Roger Harris
  • International Trends in Skilled Migration and the Implications on Workforce Development Strategy Peter Kell
  • What do Young Australian Engineers Want? Strategies to Attract this Talent to less ‘Glamorous’ Industries Michelle Wallace, Neroli Sheldon, Roslyn Cameron and Ian Lings
  • Enhancing Career Pathways Neroli Sheldon and Michelle Wallace
  • Developing a Win-Win Scenario: Agendas and Strategies with Organizations to Enhance Workers’ Learning Brian Findsen
  • Recognising and Developing the Skills of Culturally Diverse Groups Katie Maher
  • Formal Workplace Mentoring: A Strategy for Engagement Tom Short
  • Education Technologies and Simulation in Training Gregory Tibbits, Lesley Jolly, Lydia Kavanagh and Liza O’Moore
  • Managing complex project in large organisations Senevi Kiridena and Andrew Sense
  • Strategies to Recognise Abstract Skills in Skills Recognition Processes: a Case Study of Personal Practice Lisa Davies
  • e-Technologies Kieren Jamieson, Sukanlaya Sawang and Cameron Newton
  • Building Leadership Culture: What it means for Organisations Tom Short, Tom Stehlik and Janene Piip
  • Workplace Coaching: Context and Challenge Roslyn Cameron
  • How to Identify Talented Leaders Janene Piip and Roger Harris
  • A Moment in Time and Place: Can Highly Contextualised Training meet National Training Frameworks? Jill Hadley
  • Innovation, Change and the Intrapreneurial Mindset John Thompson, Jarna Heinonen and Jonathon M Scott
  • Recruitment of skilled employees and workforce development in the German VET system: problems, politics and strategies for the future Thomas Deissinger
  • Applying National Vocational Curricula to Develop a Unified Industry Standard Michele Simons, Roger Harris