Search Results - subject:"Workforce Development"

Assessment of social marketing education, training, and application in public health settings

Biroscak, Brian J.; Lefebvre, R. Craig; Schneider, Tali; … - In: International review on public and non-profit marketing 11 (2014) 2, pp. 145-160

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Understanding green occupations from a task-based approach

Peters, David J. - In: Applied economic perspectives and policy 36 (2014) 2, pp. 238-264

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Discourse about workforce development in tourism : an analysis of public policy, planning, and implementation in Australia and Scotland ; hot air or making a difference?

Solnet, David; Nickson, Dennis; Robinson, Richard N. S.; … - In: Tourism analysis : an interdisciplinary tourism & … 19 (2014) 5, pp. 609-623

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Mimesis : learning through everyday activities and interactions at work

Billett, Stephen - In: Human resource development review : HRD review 13 (2014) 4, pp. 462-482

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Building the Next Workforce: Georgia Discussion Forums

Wilkins, Joy; Brown, Mac - 2007

Workforce development was widely viewed by stakeholders across Georgia as an areaof critical challenges and … together and discuss workforce development challenges and potentialsolutions from a regional perspective. A common conclusion …

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Working, But Poor: A Study of Georgia's Economic Self-Sufficiency Policies

Hayes, Rosa B. - 2006

The "work first" philosophy of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act sent millions of people into the labor force, many for the first time. The result was a dramatic increase in the number of workers whose earnings failed to pull them and their families out of...

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Report on Georgia's Innovation Forums of 2006

Wilkins, Joy; Brown, Mac - 2006

Each year the Southern Growth Policies Board conducts a major policy research project to explore a vital issue related to economic development. A central component of the research project is to gather the opinions and experiences of citizens across the South. Partners are recruited across the...

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The dual promise of green jobs : A qualitative study of federally funded energy training programmes in the USA

Scully-Russ, Ellen - In: European Journal of Training and Development 37 (2013) 3, pp. 257-272

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to review the policy literature on green jobs and green jobs training in the USA and to present findings of a qualitative study on the start-up of two Energy Training Partnerships (ETP) funded by the US Department of Labour to train workers for green jobs....

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Reworking Workforce Development

Schrock, Greg - In: Economic Development Quarterly 27 (2013) 3, pp. 163-178

In recent years, local officials throughout the United States have attempted to retool workforce development programs … important for local economic development. But are these old and new goals for workforce development reconcilable? Does a more … manufacturing and service industries. This case study finds that efforts to â€œreworkâ€ the public workforce development system to …

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Examining the labor market presence of US WISEs

Cooney, Kate - In: Social Enterprise Journal 9 (2013) 2, pp. 147-163

employment conditions suggest that additional aspects of WISE workforce development strategy should be taken into account …

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