The Great Skills Gap : OptimizingTalentfor the Future of Work

Cover -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Talent of the Future: Are We Missing the Mark? -- Introduction -- 1 Equipping a New Generation with the Skills Needed in the Automation Age -- 2 The Role of Citizen Developers in Developing Technological Literacy -- 3 The Future of Work: Four Difficult Questions I Ask Myself as an Employer -- 4 Why Geography Is So Important -- 5 Enabling a High-Performing, Human-Centered Organization in Pfizer's Upjohn Division -- 6 How the Future of Work Impacts the Workforce of Technical Organizations -- 7 Corporate Learning and Development Has a Vital Role to Play in the Robotics Revolution-Is It Ready? -- Part II: Higher Education: Still the Solution for a Workforce in Flux? -- Introduction -- 8 Supporting Unlearning to Enable Upskilling -- 9 Higher Education's Changing Faces: Serving STEM Learners for a Lifetime -- 10 The Future of Business Education: New Economies of Automation, Certification, and Scale -- 11 Back to the Future: Fragile Workers, Higher Education, and the Future Knowledge Economy -- 12 The Evolution of the Liberal Arts -- 13 The Evolution of Liberal Education in a Technology-Mediated, Global Society -- 14 The Core and the Adult Student -- 15 Perpetual Learning as Alumni Engagement: Renewing the Social Contract -- Part III: Bridging the Gap between Learning and Labor -- Introduction -- 16 Harnessing the Power and Potential of Diversity and Inclusion -- 17 Public Education and the Future of Work -- 18 Developing Workers for the Workplace: How Businesses and Higher Education Can Alleviate Worker Barriers to Retraining or Upskilling -- 19 Past as Prologue: Apprenticeship and the Future of Work -- 20 Bachelor's-Level Registered Apprenticeship for Engineers: Possibilities and Challenges.