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The Mismanagement of Talent - Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy (Paperback, New)
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The Mismanagement of Talent - Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy (Paperback, New)
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This book lifts the veneer of 'employability', to expose serious
problems in the way that future workers are trying to manage their
employability in the competition for tough-entry jobs in the
knowledge economy; in how companies understand their human resource
strategies and endeavor to recruit the managers and leaders of the
future; and in the government failure to come to terms with the
realities of the knowledge-based economy. The demand for
high-skilled, high waged jobs, has been exaggerated. But it is
something that governments want to believe because it distracts
attention from thorny political issues around equality,
opportunity, and redistribution. If it is assumed that there are
plenty of good jobs for people with the appropriate credentials
then the issue of who gets the best jobs loses its political sting.
But if good jobs are in limited supply, how the competition for a
livelihood is organized assumes paramount importance. This issue,
is not lost on the middle classes, given that they depend on
academic achievement to maintain, if not advance the occupational
and social status of family members. The reality is that increasing
congestion in the market for knowledge workers has led to growing
middle class anxieties about how their off-spring are going to meet
the rising threshold of employability that now has to be achieved
to stand any realistic chance of finding interesting and rewarding
employment. The result is a bare-knuckle struggle for access to
elite schools, colleges, universities and jobs. This book examines
whether employability policies are flawed because they ignore the
realities of 'positional' conflict in the competition for a
livelihood, especially as the rise of mass higher education has
arguably done little to increase the employability of students for
tough-entry jobs. It will be of interest to anyone looking to
understand the way knowledge-based firms recruit and how this is
influenced by government policy, be they Researchers, Academics and
Students of Business and Management, Industrial Relations, Human
Resource Management, Politics or Sociology; Human Resource
Management or Recruitment Professionals; or job candidates.
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