...Ellen Scully-Russ 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...

... these in the organization for achieving both improved performance and harmony. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Culture Brainstorming Vision Policy Strategy In physics, vectors are a means for representing the magnitude as well as the direction of forces. Vectors can be geometrically summed, which is very much...

... policy look like to support and facilitate innovation, avoiding the pitfall of protectionism? Two case studies are presented: one on linear innovation policy and one on learning processes of farmers. Innovative learning is balancing between the chaos of uncertainty and the old grooves of experience...

... © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Vocational training Europe Policy Europe ill-prepared for lifelong learning? Keywords: Vocational training, Europe, Policy Making lifelong learning a reality requires a fundamental rethink of the role of vocational training and how people...

... to an apparent state of confusion among small and medium‐sized companies and their employees. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Skills Training Lifelong learning Policy Small and medium‐sized enterprises The creation of new skills policies is in fashion. Commentators across the political spectrum...

... concerns implementing espoused strategic goals and policies, and the degree of alignment between stated intent (vision and mission), actual behaviour and policy performance at operational level. Strategic fit models have developed typologies of human resource practices for different competitive strategies...

...). For further information please contact any of the following: Ian Cunningham, Tel: 01273 703691; Peter Honey, Tel: 01628 633946; Michael Pearn, Tel: 00 353 1 475 3931. The document claims that the biggest missed opportunity for policy makers and leaders in organizations is the failure to capitalize...

...Thomas N. Garavan Focuses on professional development policy for Irish second‐level teachers. Attempts to conceptualise current thinking about professional development policies as they relate to the teaching profession. Reviews existing policy for the provision of professional development before...

... of the interviews highlighted the presence of inherent paradoxes vis‐à‐vis attitudes of flexible professionals and their organizational employers, suggesting potentially unrecognised dysfunctionality between individual and institutions towards flexible working policies. A conventional career...

... the polytechnics (HBO‐schools) were adopted into the higher education sector, and together with the universities and academic professional schools they provide a range of options. In the 1980s and early 1990s this orientation in educational policy changed toward a re‐assessment of vocational education...

... is examined through a critique of policy developments in both initial and continuing education and training. Original survey data are used in combination with national statistical sources and other survey findings to present a picture of human resource development activity within organisations. In conclusion...

...David O’Donnell; Thomas N. Garavan Argues that a human resource development (HRD) strategy, in alliance with a global‐arching human resource management (HRM) strategy, is the most effective way to link training policy and practice to organizational goals. Both manufacturing and service...

.... Traditional lack of continuity of the national education policy, as well as persistent low financing of vocational education by the state, has resulted in the accumulation of long‐standing problems. This situation has added up to a sluggish vocational education organization, more or less incapable...