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Skills in Business - The Role of Business Strategy, Sectoral Skills Development and Skills Policy (Paperback)
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Skills in Business - The Role of Business Strategy, Sectoral Skills Development and Skills Policy (Paperback)
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Johnny Sung and David Ashton are two of the leading scholars in the
area of skills. This book combines challenging theories with
cutting edge research in a way that should bring skills to life for
students. I strongly recommend it for anyone researching or
studying in this area. - Irena Grugulis, Leeds University Business
School "A much needed contribution to the complex debate of how
skills can best be utilised to enhance company performance, with
particular emphasis on an innovative sectoral approach. It is a
model of clarity in its presentation of the authors' conceptual
models using a historical narrative as well as comparative case
studies in both the UK and Singapore." - Bert Clough, Leeds
University Business School Public skills policy in most market
economies in the last forty years made one repeated error, time and
again. We seem to be unable to learn from those mistakes.
Consistently, public policies view a wide range of economic and
social issues e.g. low productivity, low-skilled jobs, low wage,
inequality and in-work poverty as the consequence of skills
deficits and a lack of qualifications held by individual workers.
Whilst mis-diagnosing the source of the problems and failing to
deliver any effective change, public skills policies continue with
a policy prescription of 'more skills' and 'more degrees'. If we
have not solved the problems with this decade-old approach, why
should the same medicine work this time? This book examines the
role of public skills policy from a completely different
perspective. It starts by challenging the lack of a systematic
analysis of the link between skills utilisation and business
strategy, and provides a new model for fresh thinking. The book
extends this theoretical analysis to examine the implications for
the sectoral approach to skills development as a more effective
form of public skills policy. David N. Ashton is Emeritus Professor
at the University of Leicester and Honorary Professor at Cardiff
University. Johnny Sung is at The Institute for Adult Learning,
Singapore Workforce Development Agency, Singapore.
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