Workforce Development
Workforce development bridges the gap between the current workforce and the desired workforce forecast. Gap closing strategies that you might implement covers:
Attraction, Capabilities, Capacity, Competency Frameworks, Competency Profiles, Core Competencies, Leadership Competencies, Leadership Development, Knowledge Management, Learning and Development, Organisational Development/Learning, Professional Development, Retention, Skills Profiling, Staff Development, Team Development, Training and Development, Transition.
Workforce skills development is all forms of learning and skills acquisition.
Vocational Education Training (VET) Assessment and Learning relates to formal learning and assessment against units of competency and qualifications from National Training Packages or accredited courses through a Registered Training Organisation.
Workforce Development Research and Links
Enabling workforce development: insights from industries using e-learning
University of Sydney. Workplace Research Centre (WRC)
Flexible Learning Advisory Group (FLAG)
http://industry.flexiblelearning.net.au/2011/wfd_research_4feb11.pdf
Pathways: developing the skills of Australia’s workforce
Guthrie, Hugh; Stanwick, John; Karmel, Tom
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2376.html
Schools workforce: Productivity Commission issues paper
Australia. Productivity Commission
http://www.pc.gov.au/projects/study/education-workforce/schools/issues
INTERNATIONAL
Creating opportunities in health care: the community college role in workforce partnerships
Biswas, Radha Roy; Kelley, Jeremy
Jobs for the Future (U.S.) (JFF)
http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/MetLife-OppsinHealthCare-040711.pdf
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
Uhalde, Raymond J.
Jobs for the Future (U.S.) (JFF)
http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/Uhalde-AppropTestimony-040711.pdf
Leaving no worker behind: community colleges retrain the Michigan workforce – and themselves
Hilliard, Tom
Jobs for the Future (U.S.) (JFF)
http://www.jff.org/sites/default/files/LeavingNoWorkerBehind_041411.pdf
Preparing hospitality and tourism students to lead a diverse workforce
Dawson, Mary; Neal, Jack A.; Madera, Juan M.
Journal of teaching in travel and tourism, 11 (2), 2011
Is workplace ‘Skills for Life’ provision sustainable in the UK?
Waite, Edmund; Evans, Karen; Kersh, Natasha
Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES)
http://www.llakes.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/23-Waite-Evans-Kersh-compressed.pdf
The spatial dimensions of Skills for Life workplace provision
Kersch, Natasha; Waite, Edmund; Evans, Karen
Centre for Learning and Life Chances in Knowledge Economies and Societies (LLAKES)
http://www.researchonline.org.uk/sds/search/download.do?ref=B19800
Challenges for continuing professional learning: Singapore’s trainers
Bound, Helen
http://avetra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/94.00.pdf
TJ: training journal, June 2011
Ely, England: Fenman, 2011
AUSTRALIA 2010
Election statement 2010: group training: a stronger role in workforce development
Group Training Australia (GTA)
http://www.grouptraining.com.au/policy/downloads/GTA021_Election_Statement_Web.pdf
Sydney, New South Wales: GTA, 2010
Skilling Australians: lessons from World War II national workforce development programs
Dymock, Darryl; Billett, Stephen
Australian journal of adult learning, 50 (3), November 2010
Skilling WA: a workforce development plan for Western Australia
Western Australia. Department of Training and Workforce Development
http://www.dtwd.wa.gov.au/dtwd/detcms/navigation/category.jsp?categoryID=8805112
Workforce development for the hair and beauty industry
Brennan Kemmis, Roslin; Ahern, Sharyn
http://avetra.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/82.00-Ros-Brennan-Kemmis.pdf
Crows Nest, New South Wales: AVETRA, 2010
Workforce development in early childhood education and care: research overview
Bretherton, Tanya
http://www.ncver.edu.au/publications/2260.html
Skills for jobs: the Training and Skills Commission’s five year plan for skills and workforce development: 2010
South Australia. Department of Further Education, Employment, Science and Technology. Training and Skills Commission (TASC)
http://www.tasc.sa.gov.au/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=AJRaOy5z4UE%3d&tabid=142&mid=581
National Agreement for Skills and Workforce Development: performance report for 2009
COAG Reform Council
Council of Australian Governments (COAG)
http://www.coagreformcouncil.gov.au/reports/skills.cfm
Australian workforce futures: a national workforce development strategy
Skills Australia
http://www.skillsaustralia.gov.au/publications.shtml#workforce-futures
INTERNATIONAL 2010
Workforce cross training: a re-emerging trend in tough times
Abrams, Carmen; Berge, Zane
Journal of workplace learning, 22 (8), 2010
Formal adult learning and working in Europe: a new typology of participation patterns
Hefler, Günter; Markowitsch, Jörg
Journal of workplace learning, 22 (1/2), 2010
Varieties of organizational learning: investigating learning in local level public sector organizations
Pokharel, Mohan P.; Hult, Karen M.
Journal of workplace learning, 22 (4), 2010
HE@Work: three year longitudinal employee learning attitudes survey of large private businesses, 2008-2010
Roodhouse, Simon; Mumford, John
International journal of training and development, 46 (6), 2010
Labour force participation in New Zealand: recent trends, future scenarios and the impact on economic growth
New Zealand. Department of Labour (DOL)
http://dol.govt.nz/publications/lmr/participation/participation.pdf
Education & business Turkey
European Training Foundation (ETF)
http://www.etf.europa.eu/webatt.nsf/0/C12578310056925BC1257817003F33D6/$file/NOTE8D3FHF.pdf
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