Is it too ambitious to hope that the UK could aim for all work to be ‘good work’? The Prime Minister commissioned a Review of Modern Employment Practices in October 2016. Chaired by Matthew Taylor, RSA Chief Executive, the Review aims to ensure both policy makers and the public come to recognise the vital importance of good work to social justice, economic dynamism and civic engagement. Speakers: The Rt Hon Theresa May MP, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Prime...
Topics: The RSA, Great Britain, London, Youtube, good work, employee rights, Independent Review into...
How do we improve the quality of working lives across our economy? Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, asks whether the government, businesses, employers, employees, individuals and communities can come together to create an economy that offers people the opportunity of work that is decent, fair and fulfilling. Watch Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA and Chair of the Government’s Review into Modern Employment Practices, in our latest RSA Spotlight - the edits which take you...
Topics: The RSA, Great Britain, London, Youtube, self employed, gig economy, work economy, workers, UK...
Today's shop floor, the area of a factory where operatives assemble products, is a complex and demanding work environment. The employed and produced technology becomes ever more complex, and employees are responsible for an increasing amount of tasks. As a consequence, the employee is under constant pressure to solve problems occurring on the shop floor as fast as possible, and simultaneously to improve his work-related knowledge, skills, and capabilities. This paper gives an account how...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Workplace Learning, Manufacturing Industry, Manufacturing, Educational Technology,...
The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University was the first higher education institution in Germany to combine on-the-job training and academic studies. The study model integrates theory and practice, both being components of cooperative education. The success of this university is based on its cooperation with over 10,000 companies. Students are employed and remunerated for the duration of their studies by their partner company. In South Africa and Namibia, while cooperative education...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Cooperative Education, On the Job Training,...
When districts get ready to recruit excellent teachers for the career possibilities that Opportunity Culture roles offer, success may come down to two actions: Start early, and communicate constantly, say recruiters in Charlotte-Mecklenburg's Project L.I.F.T. (Leadership and Investment For Transformation) schools. What brings excellent teachers in droves to apply for jobs in hard-to-staff schools? Project L.I.F.T. started by offering a complete Opportunity Culture package of career advancement...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Vignettes, Teacher Recruitment, Employment Practices, Experienced Teachers, Teacher...
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Join the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #talkgoodjobs. There's no denying that service businesses like retail and fast-food chains have been engines of job growth. But, these industries typically offer bad jobs—low wages, scant benefits, and erratic work schedules. And not just low wages, but poverty-level wages. Nearly one in four working adults in America cannot support a family. Why such bad jobs? Many companies—especially those offering low prices—believe it's the only way...
Topics: Colorado, Aspen, The Aspen Instititue, Youtube, Good, Book, good jobs, strategy, Trader Joe's...
To date western feminist scholarship on gender and work has primarily focused on women providing valuable information as to their discrimination and invisibility, especially in the echelons of power and in senior decision-making positions. Feminist scholars have needed to explore women's under representation in senior leadership positions because of their long term exclusion. This is true for Australian women where most have been unable to secure senior jobs despite their desire to do so and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness, Universities, Leadership, Women Administrators,...
It's been said that men are paid more than women are paid over their lifetimes. But what does that mean? Are women paid less because they choose lower-paying jobs? Is it because more women work part time than men do? Or is it because women tend to be the primary caregivers for their children? AAUW's "The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap" succinctly addresses these issues by going beyond the widely reported 78 percent statistic. The report explains the pay gap in the United...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Gender Differences, Gender Discrimination, Comparable Worth, Salary Wage...
Little information exists on the basic elements of diversity recruiting on college campuses. A set of questions was developed for the Collegiate Employment Research Institute's (CERI's) annual college hiring survey that attempted to capture the current practices and benchmarks being employed by organizations in their diversity recruiting programs. This report begins by examining how organizations define diversity. In the other sections, topics cover the degree to which diversity recruiting is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Benchmarking, Student Diversity, Student Employment, Organizational Culture,...
The U.S. Department of Education Chapter of Blacks in Government (BIG) reviewed and responded to the EEOC [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Office] African American Workgroup Report. The BIG ED Chapter considered whether: There is any evidence indicating that the number and percentage of African Americans employed by any federal government agency is a variable in the barriers described in the Report. Articulated another way, do barriers still exist in agencies with large numbers and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Minority Groups, Racial Discrimination, Public Agencies,...
Research has shown that "last hired, first fired" policies maximize the number of teachers subject to reductions in force by eliminating those teachers that are lowest on the pay scale first. Until now, advocates of effectiveness-based reduction-in-force (RIF) policies could only point to simulated policy exercises as evidence of the potential benefits of a discretionary reduction-in-force policy. This study suggests that, while reductions in force negatively affect student...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Effectiveness, Job Layoff, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Job...
In today's job market, middle and high skills jobs--jobs that require some education and training beyond high school--comprise the majority of job openings and typically provide the best wages and opportunities for advancement. And almost every day, there is an article or news story discussing the "skills mismatch" phenomenon, the ongoing challenge employers have in finding qualified and skilled employees to fill the more than 3 million jobs currently open in the United States, even...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Labor Market, Employment Patterns, Skilled Occupations, Technical Occupations,...
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, more than two-thirds of the professoriate in non-profit postsecondary education is now comprised of non-tenure-track faculty. New hires across all institutional types are now largely contingent and this number will continue to grow unless trends change. This paper presents conceptual diagrams that show interactions of...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Tenure, Outcomes of Education, Interaction, Educational Environment, College Faculty,...
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, the professoriate is now comprised of mostly non-tenure-track faculty. In 1969, tenured and tenure-track positions made up approximately 78.3% of the faculty and non-tenure-track positions comprised about 21.7% (Schuster & Finkelstein, 2006). Forty years later, in 2009 these proportions had nearly flipped; tenured and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Tenure, Unions, Part Time Faculty, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Proprietary...
This article reports on a study, among the first in the United States, to examine staff working in early care and education infrastructure organizations, a growing segment of the workforce. This exploratory study used an online survey of 1,091 staff in three different types of organizations in California that receive public funding--child care resource and referral programs, local child care coordinators, and local First 5 Commissions. This study develops a portrait of the demographic and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Professional Development, Child Care, Child Development, Individual Characteristics,...
In an uncertain economy, reliable information about tomorrow's labor market can be a valuable tool in career planning. Understanding the future workforce helps an individual prepare for his/her place in it. When choosing among careers--or assisting others who are making such choices--it helps to know a few basics: the types and number of jobs likely to be available, the wages of workers in those occupations, and the typical ways of preparing for them. And that's just to get started. The U.S....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Planning, Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Occupational Information, Job...
This document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Building the Capacity to Innovate: The Role of Human Capital," and is an added resource for further information. This document contains the following appendices: (1) Survey methodology; (2) Synopsis of the literature; (3) Interview questions; and (4) Survey questionnaire. (Contains 56 tables and 5 figures.) [For the full report, "Building the Capacity to Innovate: The Role of Human Capital. Research...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Research Methodology, Literature Reviews,...
The nature of the American academic workforce has fundamentally shifted over the past several decades. Whereas full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty were once the norm, more than two-thirds of the professoriate in non-profit postsecondary education is now comprised of non-tenure-track faculty. New hires across all institutional types are now largely contingent and this number will continue to grow unless trends change. This paper presents a sample of reforms and practices implemented at...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Best Practices, Community Colleges, Higher Education, College...
It is important for administrators, faculty, and policy makers to understand and consider how policies commonly associated with non-tenure-track faculty roles and working environments impact student learning. Many policies impede the ability of faculty to provide effective instruction that is aligned with departmental and institutional goals for learning outcomes. On many campuses, current policies create conditions wherein these faculty are inaccessible to students outside of scheduled class...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Tenure, Outcomes of Education, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, College...
This report examines the link between human resource management practices and innovation. It is based on a conceptual framework in which "human resource stimuli measures"--work organisation, working time, areas of training and creativity--feed into innovative capacity or innovation. Of course, having innovative capacity does not necessarily mean that a firm will be innovative. One of the issues of this approach is that, while innovation can be directly observed, innovative capacity is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Management, Creativity, Human Capital, Innovation,...
This report examines Ohio's changing economy and whether Ohio is well positioned to meet the shifting skill demand. After examining job losses and job growth projections by sector and education attainment, findings revealed that Ohio has a projected education attainment gap for workers with some post-secondary education but less than a college degree and for workers with a college or higher level degree. Ohio is also projected to have a surplus of workers with high school degrees or less. The...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Unemployment, Job Development, Educational Attainment, Labor Force Development,...
People with disabilities are employed at less than half the rate of their non-disabled peers; and the current economic climate is making it even harder for people with disabilities to obtain employment. During the summer and fall of 2011, Cornell University's Employment and Disability Institute and the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) collaborated on the development and implementation of a survey on current critical issues around the employment of people with...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Disabilities, Employment, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Leaves of Absence, Job...
After the attacks of 9/11/2001 the federal government implemented new policies intended to protect people and institutions in the United States. A surprising policy requires education researchers conducting research under contract to the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to obtain security clearances, sometimes known as security screenings. Contractor employees whose work meets any of four conditions are required by to "undergo personnel security screenings." Two of the four...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Research, Federal Government, Federal Regulation, Personnel Evaluation,...
The National Association of Colleges and Employers' (NACE's) "2011 Internship & Co-op Survey" indicates that internships are an integral and ever-important part of the college recruiting scene. The survey finds that employers expect to increase internship hiring by about 7 percent this year and co-op positions by nearly 9 percent. Furthermore, they will draw approximately 40 percent of their new college hires for 2011 from their internship and co-op programs. These figures...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Experiential Learning, Recruitment, Occupational Surveys, Employer Attitudes,...
Between 2000 and 2003, the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project identified and implemented a diverse set of innovative models designed to promote employment stability and wage or earnings progression among low-income individuals, mostly current or former welfare recipients. The project's goal was to determine which strategies could help low-wage workers stay employed and advance over time--and which strategies seem not to work. Over a dozen different ERA program models have now...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Models, Welfare Recipients, One Parent Family, Tenure, Employment Practices, Labor...
The National Association of Colleges and Employers conducted its annual survey of employer members from June 15, 2010 to August 15, 2010, to benchmark data relevant to college recruiting. From a base of 861 employers holding organizational membership, there were 268 responses for a response rate of 31 percent. Following are some of the major findings of the 2010 survey: (1) Globalization in college recruiting is, at this point, a relatively specialized aspect of the overall recruiting scene;...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Global Approach, College Graduates, Employment Patterns, Benchmarking, Regional...
The National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) conducts an annual survey of college students to identify: (1) how students approach the job market as they near graduation; (2) how responsive the market is to the graduating students; (3) the resources students use to seek their first full-time job after getting their degree; and (4) the preferences students have regarding job and/or employer attributes that may impact their decision for whom to work or not to work. Each year, the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Job Search Methods, Labor Market, Student Surveys, College Graduates, Student...
This policy brief, a quick look at some aspects of the debate, illustrates the differences in New York City public schools that would result when layoffs are determined by seniority in comparison to a measure of teacher effectiveness. Due to data limitations and an interest in simplicity, this analysis employs the value added of teachers using the 4th and 5th grade math and ELA (English Language Arts) achievement of their students. Unsurprisingly, the authors find that layoffs determined by a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Class Size, Teacher Effectiveness, Job Layoff, Tenure, Academic Achievement,...
For nearly two decades, charter founders have opened schools across the land on the basis of a distinctive education bargain: operational autonomy--freedom from restrictions typically placed on public schools--in exchange for strong results-based accountability. During that time, many have studied the "results" and "accountability" side of this arrangement, yet to everyone's knowledge there has never before been a systematic national appraisal of the autonomy side. Despite...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Charter Schools, Institutional Autonomy, State Legislation, Contracts, Teacher...
Management experts have observed that employment relationship has become contractual, fragile, and short-lived. Downsizings have resulted in some people having far too much work and stress, while increasing numbers have no work at all. As a result, people are taking jobs they do not really want and staying longer in jobs they do not really like. This author states that workforce preparation needs a holistic approach that includes awareness of some of the harsh realities of today's world--a...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Education, Holistic Approach, Education Work Relationship, Quality of Working...
Education reformers routinely call on school districts to stop hiring teachers based on seniority, which they argue interferes with effective staffing, especially in disadvantaged schools. The few researchers who have empirically studied the issue, however, disagree about whether seniority-based hiring is systematically associated with staffing problems for disadvantaged schools. We approach the question by examining what happens when a single urban school district eliminates seniority-based...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Schools, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Persistence, Personnel Selection,...
This report presents the findings of the review of the evidence base on comparative practices of teacher selection and recruitment, specifically on the different mechanisms countries use to assess teacher readiness to take up teaching posts, with particular emphasis on testing or examinations. It is intended that the report will be helpful to countries or states that are looking to review their existing methods of recruiting and selecting teachers, and to those who are advising them. The main...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Evidence, Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Selection, Foreign Countries, Teacher...
In a time of scarce resources, many colleges and universities are looking for ways to stretch their existing resources for student success. At the same time, most institutions have a significant number of student workers. This paper presents the latest research that describes the vital role of on-campus employment in student retention. This report also presents seven specific suggestions for maximizing the return from your investment in student employees. Eight ways on how supervisors can best...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Holding Power, Student Employment, Educational Resources, Resource Allocation,...
The unusual nature of the current economic environment combined with changing labor market demographics heightens the importance to those engaged in employment activity of utilizing methods that fulfill their needs. But electronic technology is transforming available employment methods. How can career building and recruiting best be sustained in today's continually changing and ever-more electronic age? This paper identifies current practices employers, prospective employees, and career service...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Career Development, Employment Practices, Labor Market, College Graduates, Trend...
One focus of the Australian Government's social inclusion agenda is to help people with a disability into work. The government's new National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy acknowledges that a considerable barrier to employment for people with a disability is the lack of information for employers. It is therefore timely to examine employer views on employing people with a disability. Based on a series of focus groups with employers from small-to-medium-sized enterprises, this...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Employer Attitudes, Focus Groups, Disabilities, Employment Opportunities, Employment...
The study investigated and analyzed the state of academic web-based job announcements in Library and Information Science Field. The purpose of study was to get in depth understanding about main characteristics and trends of academic job market in Library and Information science field. The study focused on web-based version announcement as it was fast, moderate and reliable. The study focused on one of the worldwide and most used web site in the Library and Information Science field; ALISE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Information Science Education, Information Science, Job Placement, Case Studies,...
The public higher education systems have received significant budget cuts in the 2009-10 fiscal year, with the University of California (UC) receiving $813 million less than in 2007-08, California State University (CSU) receiving $625 million less, and the community college system receiving $812 million less. It is important to understand the effects of the budget cuts and the need to restore public funding to at least 2007-08 levels to maintain the quality of and access to higher education....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Budgets, Budgeting, Public Colleges, State Colleges, Community...
In April 2009, a high school principal in a large Arizona school district met individually with 18 of his most senior teachers to inform them that they would not have a job the following year. Why didn't tenure protect them from wholesale dismissal? The answer is they all had one thing in common: they were retirees who had been leased or hired back to fill their former positions and were collecting state pensions. Looking at the options and considering the overall high level of seniority of its...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Principals, High Schools, Boards of Education, Teacher Supply and Demand, Teacher...
The loss of full-time tenure faculty positions along with the overuse and financial exploitation of contingent faculty (part-time, full-time nontenure track and graduate employees) are roiling higher education around the country. This is called the academic staffing crisis. Many are undoubtedly working through the bargaining process to improve the pay, benefits, and job security provisions that members receive. This report provides advice on how to take the important bargaining work that one is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, College Administration, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Faculty...
This guide aims to help organization leaders develop the tools and knowledge they need to create and use sound human resources management (HRM) systems and practices that support program success and sustainability. It identifies key components of HRM systems and discusses important considerations in designing HRM policies, procedures, and protocols. It provides tips and advice on how to hire, develop, and retain staff and reduce the time spent dealing with personnel issues by implementing...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Youth Programs, Human Resources, Personnel Management, Recordkeeping, Employer...
In this policy brief the authors present an overview of the current state of school leadership in California. They examine the challenges that California must overcome to recruit, hire, train, and retain strong and talented principals, with a particular focus on the limitations of current state and district policies. They also propose a set of actions that policymakers can take in order to ensure that great principals are providing leadership in all of California's schools. (Contains 4 figures.)
Topics: ERIC Archive, Instructional Leadership, Principals, Personnel Policy, Personnel Management,...
The negative consequences of the current economic recession are vast, both for the education field and for all sectors of society. Yet one benefit has emerged from these recent tough economic times: Teaching is becoming a more attractive career choice. Although states and local policymakers should "always" work proactively to attract effective teachers to the profession, the impact of the economic recession--combined with a new public agenda focused on social responsibility--can open...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teacher Effectiveness, Career Choice, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Recruitment, Change...
We surveyed 31 prospective employers (65% response rate) regarding their views on character as part of the employment selection process. The results showed character qualities superordinate, relative to skills that prospective employees bring to potential jobs. We discuss survey results in light of business educators' responsibility for helping students to internalize ethical decision-making. Although the results show employers making few company changes due to the media's attention on...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Personnel Selection, Moral Values, Moral Issues, Morale, Employer Attitudes,...
It has been known for decades that individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), including those with significant impairment or who have behaviors that others find challenging, can work when they are given appropriate supports (Smith, Belcher, & Juhrs, 1995). It is also clear that individuals with ASD can benefit from employment. Benefits include improved emotional state, greater financial gain, decreased anxiety, greater self-esteem, and greater independence (Mawhood & Howlin,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Job Applicants, Employment Practices, Autism, Economically Disadvantaged, Job...
Over the last generation, the instructional staffing system in American higher education has experienced a significant reduction in the proportion of jobs for full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty members and a dramatic growth in fixed-term full- and part-time instructional jobs without tenure. About 70 percent of the people teaching in college today hold these temporary jobs and are known as "contingent" faculty and instructors. Particularly in the case of part-time/adjunct...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Tenure, Public Colleges, Health Insurance, Unions, Comparable...
Employment is an important component to community living that allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to form new relationships and learn new skills. Individuals with disabilities have much to contribute to the work place and, if a proper "fit" is achieved, work inclusion can benefit all involved. This project provides and insight into the work experiences of persons with developmental disabilities through the eyes of the employers. Through in-depth interviews with the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Developmental Disabilities, Employment, Employer Attitudes, Individual...
With particular regard to gender, this paper considers the rise and fall of EEO in Australian universities over the last 30 years. The paper argues that EEO, a product of social liberalism, had barely been introduced before it became a casualty of the Dawkins reforms and the transformation of the university. Corporatisation resulted in top-down managerialism and the production of academics as neoliberal subjects. Within this context, identity politics either moved to the periphery or...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Critical Theory, Social Justice,...
Many federal laws, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, have enabled women and minorities access to the workplace. These same laws have mandated that employers prevent discrimination against women and minorities, yet when employers utilize various strategies for eliminating discrimination in the workplace, they have found themselves faced with litigation for their efforts. For example, human resource managers have been struggling with finding ways to prevent and eliminate sexual...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Civil Rights Legislation, Federal Legislation, Diversity (Institutional), Compliance...
This report describes recent hiring and retirement patterns as well as tenure-related changes and actions taken by public and private not-for-profit postsecondary institutions that offered an associate's or higher degree in fall 2003 and participated in federal Title IV student aid programs. The 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:04) sampled such institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia both to obtain lists of faculty and instructional staff to be surveyed and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Faculty, Employment Practices, Personnel Selection, Unions, Retirement,...
The contents of this module have been prepared to address some of challenges associated with teaching about work-family issues from a human resource management and employment perspective. The goals of this module are: (1) To develop an understanding that work-family policies are part of a human resource management system and the employment relationship; (2) To explain how work-family policies can be understood from both the individual employee and the organizational perspectives, which...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Educational Policy, Familiarity, Organizational Effectiveness, Family Work...
