...industries that still need skilled workers as of today. Some of those industries are Pilots, Brewers, Auto Mechanics, Welders, construction supervisors and supervisors in general. These industries need people with prior training, skills and qualifications in their specialized fields due to their day to day activities consistently change. With having their working environment and day to day tasks change almost every day the individuals prior experience helps them adjust and successfully complete their requires task. Unlike knowledge based employees who usually work in a fairly consistent work environment. There was an article posted in Business week titled, “The Surprising Global Shortage of Skilled Workers”. This article really made me think about the unemployment rate and why it is so high. For some reason I always thought that the unemployment rate was so high because companies were simply not hiring, but this article reported that employers are begin pickier on who they employ allowing me to think about more factors that go into the unemployment rate. This is because they want skilled workers; skilled workers come with prior knowledge which makes them easier to train. Employers also like having skilled workers on their team because it helps them decrease their labor costs and increase employee satisfaction in the workplace. A skilled labor force allows a company to operate with a reduced number of employees but still being able to conduct business. A skilled workforce has the...
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...services in the cities is giving rise to career and income structures that are distinctly different from those in the manufacturing industry. This new career structure consists of a mix of high-skilled, high-paying jobs and low-skilled, low-paid jobs. Technically, soft skills are likely to enhance the flexibility among all kinds of employers and improve the image of corporate. Therefore, employers are more attached to soft skills than traditional ones has become a development trend. A significant change also happened in employers’ attitudes towards skills, that is soft skills have become more important than technical skills. (Hillage et al., 2002). According to the research conducted by Grugulis and Vincent (2009), highly skilled workers such as IT professionals are more likely to benefit a lot from soft skills, as soft skills can bring...
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...WHITE PAPER Preparing for a Shortage of Skilled Employees Lauren Dupont, M.A. Customer Value Consultant LDupont@successfactors.com Gabriela Burlacu, M.S. Customer Value Research Advisor gburlacu@successfactors.com SUCCESSFACTORS / WHITE PAPER PREPARInG FOR A SHORTAGE OF SkILLED EMPLOyEES a d ing for Prepar ge of Skille rta es Sho loye Emp ribe Subsc g ur Blo to O Preparing for a Shortage of Skilled Employees TABLE OF COnTEnTS: 3 Is There an Impending Skills Shortage? 5 Examining the Causes of Skilled Labor Shortages 7 Strategies for Attracting, Retaining, and Growing a Skilled Workforce 10 Conclusion 11 Endnotes As the U.S. economy slowly recovers from the 2007-2009 recession, many organizations are shifting focus from managing short-term workforce needs to more strategic, long-term workforce planning. Factors that play a role include the growing number of retirement-ready employees, technological changes, shifts in industry growth and decline, and the risk of losing star employees as more opportunities emerge. In addition, other countries —notably Greece, Portugal, Italy and Spain —are still in a deep recession, which could mean that hiring and voluntary attrition remain static. These factors have the potential to force the next “War for Talent” among HR leaders vying to fill critical roles with specialized skills. Whether this perfect storm comes to fruition is yet to be seen, but one thing is certain: Organizations need a plan for replacing the retiring workforce...
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...In recent years, the tradition concepts of skill in many front line service jobs as low skill have been out of date, and clearly need to change if people want to capture the realities of work in a modern economy. Because traditionally thought that in terms of their technical aspects in many front line service job is low skilled , then actually suggest as form of skilled work since they require their employers to perform skilled emotional labor in their dealing with customers ( Bolton, 2004, Korczynski ,2005). Thus , According to Payne, he seeks to open up a critical discussion of the opinions and the key arguments of those authors who look a view the emotional labour as a form of skilled works in his article “ Emotional Labour and Skill : A Reappraisal “ was published by 2009 . Transfer to another aspects between gender and work, Leidner (1988) feels that the gender typed interaction is an expression of workers in their occupation. So, he did analysis of two highly routinized interactive services job “Serving Hamburgers and Selling Insurance”. This article explores the interrelationship of work, gender and identity. In this paper, we will have a critique in the main points of the two articles about emotional labor and skills, and the difference gender in the routinized interaction. Firstly, According to Payne (2009), the ability of front –line staff to perform emotional work, whether it takes the forms of enthusiasm, politeness or remaining calm under pressure, is seen...
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...talent- The high unemployment rate means the pool of candidates is large. However, you don’t want to waste valuable time interviewing dozens of potential workers who aren’t a good fit. This means targeting job seekers with the best mix of education, experience and proven skills to work efficiently. b. Managing labor and benefit costs- As a human resources professional, your challenge will be to identify strategies that will satisfy the bottom line, meet operational needs and encourage valuable staff members to remain in your employ. c. Creating opportunities- Human resource professionals face the challenge to create opportunities for their most valuable staff members—perhaps through cross training or continuing education, if not through actual advancement. d. Managing wages between skilled and unskilled workers- Human Resource is challenged with making sure employees are happy with their wages and its fair based on their skills and abilities. Human Resource have to identify difference between a skilled worker and an unskilled worker is that a skilled worker has some special skill, knowledge, or ability in relation to their work, while an unskilled worker has no special training or education. Skilled workers may have attended a college, university, technical school, or completed specific coursework. Also, a skilled worker may have gained their experience through prior employment. e. Training- It is HR’s responsibility to figure out how to conduct the training so that operations...
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...The emphasis on knowledge, service, and information in the new economy creates space for more new firms to emerge, and exerts pressures on existing companies to hire employees with higher level skills in order to compete successfully. The increased demand for a highly skilled workforce has contributed to the rising importance of obtaining a college education. However, recent studies indicate that newly hired college graduates do not excel in these higher-level knowledge and information based skills at the level that employers desire. Entrepreneurs have also indicated that the shortage of highly skilled workers inhibits the growth and development of new entrepreneurial firms. In response to this there have been multiple calls for educators at all levels to recognize the challenges and opportunities in today’s economy and to ensure that students develop the “21st century” knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) they need. A closer look at these 21st century KSAs alongside research and data on entrepreneurial competencies reveals a meaningful overlap between the two. This overlap can be developed into a useful heuristic to determine appropriate outcomes for assessment of undergraduate entrepreneurship programs. Sample outcomes and program assessment processes are illustrated and discussed. INTRODUCTION As the “new” economy of the 21st century continues to develop around knowledge, service, and information based activities, a company’s ability to create and commercialize ...
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...was more heavily focused in one direction as compared to the other. Phase-1 (1950s to 1960s) Grubel and Scott identified that developed and developing countries are advanced in the fields of science and technology while Pierpaolo Giannocolo concluded that a lesser developed country which sends its qualified and skilled workers to these countries will not only benefit from this socially but also economically. Initially, the outflow of scientists and technologists was focused from Europe (and primarily the UK) to The United States and Canada. On the other hand, Kannappan stated that the heavy outflow of skilled labor from poor countries resulted in the nations losing their economic and productivity potentials. Similarly, according to Portes, the concept of ‘brain drain’ was mainly harmful for the native countries as it resulted in the development of the North and backwardness of the Southern countries. Phase-2 (1970s-1990s) The reviews from a majority of the scholars concluded that the concept of ‘brain drain’ is in fact not beneficial for the native country as it usually results in the host country gaining benefits from the inflow of qualified skilled workers and depriving the sending country of this human capital and potential. The solutions suggested to reduce this include the implementation of migration policies and to create and fortify the role of the International Organizations and Institutions to manage these migration flows. During 1970s, brain drain was often...
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...opinion. Some of his title points included, “It’s not just going to be 11 million”, “Shadowy people aren't going to come out of the shadows”, Jobs Americans won't do, and “We already have guest worker programs that don't work”. According to Mr. Seminara, “A substantial percentage of illegal immigrants are here alone, and once they get green cards, they will be able to petition for their wives and children to join them in the U.S. And if they become U.S. citizens, they will also be able to petition for their siblings and parents” he also goes on to say that “11 million migrants could result in possibly 30 million new arrivals”. This conclusion from Mr. Seminara sounds like more an sensationalized theory, than actual fact. He offers no supportive data to prove how 11 million illegal immigrants will become 30 million, nor does he state how long the number would take to grow from 11 to 30 million. However, if his numbers are indeed correct, our country would actually benefit from the additional work force. According to an article written in The Washington Post by Brad Plumer (September 6, 2013) “Baby boomers are starting to retire en masse, which means that there are fewer eligible American workers” This statement from this author makes perfect sense, because it is common knowledge that the baby boom...
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...Behavioral factor has been seen as one of the factor that contributes to the increase of employment among foreign workers in certain sectors. In determining the behavioral factor that involve in this study, the researchers choose MARS Model, which is introduced by McShane (2013), as a guideline. MARS Model is an acronym for motivation, ability, role perceptions and situational factors. Omollo (2015) stated that elements in MARS Model are greatly connected to each other, which affect the employee behavior and performance. Omollo also gave an example, which described the sequence or connection of all elements by saying, “enthusiastic and employee with...
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...Overview Malaysia has always been a hotspot and the country of choice for many foreign workers looking for a better job and prospect of life. Immigrants from countries such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, Vietnam and Philippines pour in to our country yearly in search of jobs. Malaysia has and still welcomes foreign workers to enter our country to work in certain sectors, provided that they have valid and proper documents. Sadly, many immigrants are coming in illegally and those who fail to obtain a job are resorting to crime to earn a living. Resulting in many problems and discomfort for the society and government. Analysis Recent cases have shown many illegal Bangladeshi are pouring into the country posing mostly as foreign students and sometimes as tourists. (http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2013/11/03/Influx-of-workers-posing-as-students-Thousands-of-Bangladeshis-aided-by-institutions-working-with-hu.aspx) There are approximately 3.1million legal and illegal foreign workers in Malaysia today. (http://www.nst.com.my/latest/2-8-million-legal-illegal-foreign-workers-in-msia-1.317515) Statistics have shown that Malaysia is seeing fewer skilled foreign workers and expatriates, while low-skilled migrant workers flood our shores. Malaysia’s rapid economic growth accompanied with shortages for unskilled workers continue to attract foreign workers from neighbouring countries. The differences in growth differentials and overall educational gaps between the labour...
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...the University of Zimbabwe, the Paterson system places job decision-making into six groups or bands--policy making, programming, interpretive, routine, automatic and defined. These groups correspond to the following organizational levels--top management, senior management, middle management, junior management and skilled positions, semi-skilled positions and unskilled positions. Features * Comprised of grades A through F, Paterson's grading system is listed below with an explanation of the corresponding graded decision making. An upper grade reflects a job requiring coordination or supervision, and a lower grade reflects non-coordinating jobs. A- Prescribed or defined decisions. Jobs are performed with limited training for grade A, and employees, such as unskilled workers, decide when and how fast to execute tasks. B, lower- Automatic or operative decisions B, upper- Coordinating, automatic decisions. Theory or systems knowledge for grade B is not required, though employees, such as semi-skilled workers, can decide where and when to perform operations. C, lower- Routine decisions C, upper- Coordinating, routine decisions Theory and/or systems knowledge...
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...1992-2248 © 2009 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The role of science and technology education at network age population for sustainable development of Bangladesh through human resource advancement Gazi Mahabubul Alam Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: gazi.alam@um.edu.my. Tel: +6037967 5077. Fax + 603-7967 5010. Accepted 25 September, 2009 Education is supposed to play a vital role for the development of a nation. Many countries made progression through education. Nevertheless, some of them also failed to retain the development achieved since these countries failed to supply required skilled workforce for emerging economics caused by globalization and rapid change of economic pattern. This now forces policymakers to prioritize the production of skilled manpower that can contribute for sustainable development. The countries that achieved sustainable development have given a high priority to science and technology education in formulating education policy. Bangladesh has no more alternatives in order to gain development, except properly utilizing its population. Bangladesh’s economy and human development could have grown faster than its actual progression in the last 25 years (that is, since independence in 1971), if it had earlier taken substantial steps in educational development. This paper has defined a ‘network age population’ for Bangladesh. This paper also suggests that this population is required...
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...Introduction William Border is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development where he leads the Migration and Development Initiative. His current research focuses on the effects of international migration, and on rigorous impact evaluation for aid projects. Much of his current work focuses on development and covers topics including the impact of international aid and policymaking on education equality outcomes, as well as the post-2015 development agenda, the role of technology in quality of life improvements, and governance and anticorruption. It is commonly believed that BD results in a decrease in tax revenue to the government... I actually have a different view on this matter. From the remittances is it first of all the households that are benefitting from it, but secondly the government is benefitting as well. I will explain this in more detail. The remittances spent on the consumption of both domestically produced goods and imports increase the tax base, which in turn increases revenues from sales taxes, value-added taxes and import duties and other indirect taxes. (stroomdiagram) With the remittances, the individuals/society determine their spending priorities as opposed to the agenda of the government as is the case with taxes and foreign aid. Besides this, governments are now able to increase their debts, because of the constant inflow generated by tax, or governments can spend more on infrastructure. (Abdih et al, 2012) In other words, remittances...
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...ISSN 1992-2248 © 2009 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper The role of science and technology education at network age population for sustainable development of Bangladesh through human resource advancement Gazi Mahabubul Alam Faculty of Education, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. E-mail: gazi.alam@um.edu.my. Tel: +6037967 5077. Fax + 603-7967 5010. Accepted 25 September, 2009 Education is supposed to play a vital role for the development of a nation. Many countries made progression through education. Nevertheless, some of them also failed to retain the development achieved since these countries failed to supply required skilled workforce for emerging economics caused by globalization and rapid change of economic pattern. This now forces policymakers to prioritize the production of skilled manpower that can contribute for sustainable development. The countries that achieved sustainable development have given a high priority to science and technology education in formulating education policy. Bangladesh has no more alternatives in order to gain development, except properly utilizing its population. Bangladesh’s economy and human development could have grown faster than its actual progression in the last 25 years (that is, since independence in 1971), if it had earlier taken substantial steps in educational development. This paper has defined a ‘network age population’ for Bangladesh. This paper also suggests that this population is required to...
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...talent- The high unemployment rate means the pool of candidates is large. However, you don’t want to waste valuable time interviewing dozens of potential workers who aren’t a good fit. This means targeting job seekers with the best mix of education, experience and proven skills to work efficiently. b. Managing labor and benefit costs- As a human resources professional, your challenge will be to identify strategies that will satisfy the bottom line, meet operational needs and encourage valuable staff members to remain in your employ. c. Creating opportunities- Human resource professionals face the challenge to create opportunities for their most valuable staff members—perhaps through cross training or continuing education, if not through actual advancement. d. Managing wages between skilled and unskilled workers- Human Resource is challenged with making sure employees are happy with their wages and its fair based on their skills and abilities. Human Resource have to identify difference between a skilled worker and an unskilled worker is that a skilled worker has some special skill, knowledge, or ability in relation to their work, while an unskilled worker has no special training or education. Skilled workers may have attended a college, university, technical school, or completed specific coursework. Also, a skilled worker may have gained their experience through prior employment. e. Training- It is HR’s responsibility to figure out how to conduct the training so that...
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