Many Paths to Skilled Employment

Many Paths to Skilled Employment

Author: Adrian Ziderman

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13:

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The manpower requirements forecasting approach to national planning for vocational education and training reduces choices available to individuals and creates a less diverse and efficient training system.


Skills and Skilled Work

Skills and Skilled Work

Author: Francis Green

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-06-06

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0199642850

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This multidisciplinary book develops an original framework for understanding skills, skilled work, and surrounding policies. It establishes the concept and measurement of skill, sets out a theoretical framework for skills analyses, and investigates the roles of employers, workers, and other social actors.


Other Ways to Win

Other Ways to Win

Author: Kenneth C. Gray

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2006-02-16

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781412917810

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Now in its third edition, this bestseller offers new data, recommendations, and observations that explore the choices for success available to students in the academic middle.


Monthly Labor Review

Monthly Labor Review

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 748

ISBN-13:

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Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.


Occupational Outlook Handbook

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Author: Us Dept of Labor

Publisher: Claitor's Law Books and Publishing

Published: 2008-02-06

Total Pages: 708

ISBN-13: 9781579809256

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Career guidance, put out by the U. S. Department of Labor.


Self-Efficacy

Self-Efficacy

Author: Albert Bandura

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1997-02-15

Total Pages: 628

ISBN-13: 9780716728504

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Albert Bandura's highly anticipated examination of his vastly influential work on self-efficacy is now available. The result of over 20 years of research by this renowned psychologist, the book articulates comprehensively Bandura's theory that believing one can achieve what one sets out to do results in a healthier, more effective, and generally more successful life.


Shifting Understandings of Skills in South Africa

Shifting Understandings of Skills in South Africa

Author: Simon A. McGrath

Publisher: HSRC Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780796920447

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The South African preoccupation with worker skills and skills acquisition is addressed and analyzed in this compilation of essays on the multiple and shifting meanings of the word skill within the country.


Training for Self-employment Through Vocational Training Institutions

Training for Self-employment Through Vocational Training Institutions

Author: John P. Grierson

Publisher: Skat

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13:

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This book was written to help formal and informal sector trainers provide the prospective self-employed with both useful skills and business acumen, and to help vocational training managers and administrators address the challenges of reorienting their institutions to self-employment. Self-employment is fundamentally about business, however modest the micro-enterprises of the self-employed might appear to be. The book has four principal parts. Part l opens with a brief overview of enterprise development issues, and provides a framework to help projects, training institutions and education systems consider or plan self-employment programmes. Part ll is an overview of self-employment issues and options. Part lll offers a collection of case studies from Africa, India, and Latin America. The final section, Part lV, offers a synthesis of experiences to date and a systematic oway forwardo.