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Building a Skilled Workforce in Canada
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| Arupa Tesolin talks about the challenges of maintaining a skilled work-force in Canada and why we need to re-think the ready-employee and start training them again. |
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Attracting Service Sector MNEs
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| As shown in section II.2, services sector FDI has been a growing area in the past
15 years. Since the service sector FDI, in general, involves high value-added MNEs that
possess knowledge and technology, host developing countries may want to mobilise
their human resources so as to attract these types of MNEs. While not all servicesrelated
MNEs require high-skilled workers, some of the growing services-related MNEs
do actually require a high-skilled workforce. They include MNEs operating in the area of
financial services, information technology, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, medical,
as well as firms that locate regional headquarters in the host country. |
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Prospects of Human Capital in the Future: Background
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| Future prospects of human capital development can be seen from the current
trends in education among the children as well as the training efforts made in
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Managing Diversity: A Bliss or a Curse
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| Workforce diversity is a reality at San Francisco. We already reflect the national demographic trends predicted for the year 2000 by the Hudson Institute in its 1987 report, Workforce 2000. Accommodation issues for our diverse workforce, such as childcare, elder care, flexible work arrangements, disability accommodation, and literacy are being addressed in the workplace. |
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Attracting Service Sector MNEs
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| As shown in section II.2, services sector FDI has been a growing area in the past
15 years. Since the service sector FDI, in general, involves high value-added MNEs that
possess knowledge and technology, host developing countries may want to mobilise
their human resources so as to attract these types of MNEs. While not all servicesrelated
MNEs require high-skilled workers, some of the growing services-related MNEs
do actually require a high-skilled workforce. They include MNEs operating in the area of
financial services, information technology, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, medical,
as well as firms that locate regional headquarters in the host country. |
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Employers of Choice - Why They Attract Employee Loyalty
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| Far from business determining the future of the workforce, the workforce now determines the future of business. While earning money at work is still vital, commitment to one employer is not. People want more than money - they want employment that enables them to achieve their personal goals. |
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Managing Your Virtual Workforce Effectively
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| Overcome virtual workforce related challenges and increase business productivity and profitability
Most entrepreneurs having a virtual workforce continuously find themselves struggling with issues of communication, trust, work control, productivity and accountability. Here are some points to ponder if you wish to make your virtual workforce more efficient.
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Millennials – Can’t Work With ‘Em…Can’t Work Without ‘Em: So what’s a company to do?
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| Millennials: The youngest members of your workforce, given that moniker becaue they began entering the workforce at the turn of the millennium. As with their older counterparts, they have their own set of stereotypes that come along with them: "Slackers" - "Whiners" - "The 'get a reward for everything' generation." How do companies, and particularly we Boomer bosses, make the most of these young people's capacities while we help them learn how to navigate a work world that will not always be as warm and fuzzy as was mom and the soccer coach? |
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How to repair trust after workforce reduction
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| Workforce reduction and the way it is handled either reinforce congruency or breaks it along with perceived integrity, reliability and fairness. When this happens, team work success and trust is compromised. This article offers two suggestions for successful entrepreneurs on how to repair workforce trust and explains the productivity cost of not doing so.
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Time to Retire Retirement?
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| Ten-years from now 80% of the native born American workforce will be over 50! When these workers start to retire there will not be nearly enough young people in the workforce to take their place. |
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Soft Skills Training
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| It is often argued that the education of hard skills is becoming more prevalent in schools and, as such, graduates are coming out more skilled than ever. Hard skills relate to abilities that are testable, such as typing or mathematical skills. Unfortunately, soft skills are often neglected and today’s grads find themselves incredibly skilled but unable to practically implement what they’ve learned. Soft skills relate to teamwork and interpersonal skills. |
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6 Steps To Recruit Competent Virtual Employees
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| Right recruitment sows the seeds for growing a virtual workforce that is competent and delivers results better than an in-office workforce does. However, recruiting, training, and managing virtual employees are tasks that involve planning and a clear sight of the goal. Here are a few tips that would get you started in the right direction. |
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RETENTION OF STAFF
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| Why is retention of staff such an issue these days? Surely staff are lucky enough to be employed in a full time job without you having to worry about whether or not you’re going to keep them?
Retention of staff is an issue that should be ranked priority number one. Regardless of the current economy - we do not have enough skilled staff with the appropriate skill base to fill all the available jobs – and it’s not going to improve. Simply put, the workforce growth rate is declining. In the long run there will be more jobs than workers. The future will be that there is increased competition for fewer qualified workers, which will necessitate an enormous emphasis on the need to retain the workers we already have.
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