Skill and status

Skill and status
Author: Laurel Doucette
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 191
Release: 1979-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 177282335X

A study of a ten-member rural sibling group, characterized by a high degree of specialization in traditional skills, which determines the factors regulating the achievement of status in a family setting.

Skill

Skill
Author: Christopher S. Ahmad
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2015-06
Genre: Orthopedic surgery
ISBN: 9780996388504

"This book provides guidelines--via 40 practical tips and processes--to fulfill anyone's natural ability. It's about becoming the master of your own fate, your own skills and your own success. Greatness is not a natural gift... It is something achieved through hard work and diligent practice--not from dreaming, but from working. Commit to becoming the best: work hard, have a positive mindset, and practice, practice, practice."--Back cover.

Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets

Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets
Author: Solomon W. Polachek
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 476
Release: 2017-05-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787143775

This volume contains original research articles which analyze the linkages between education and skills and the causes and consequences of different types of skill mismatch. The volume yields new insights regarding overeducation, underskilling, graduate jobs, wages returns to skills, aggregate productivity, job complexity and skill development.

High Skills : Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation

High Skills : Globalization, Competitiveness, and Skill Formation
Author: Phillip Brown
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2001-09-20
Genre:
ISBN: 0191588350

Economic globalization has led to intense debates about the competitiveness of nations. Prosperity, social justice, and welfare are now seen to depend on the creation of a 'high skilled' workforce. This international consensus around high skills has led recent American presidents to claim themselves 'education presidents' and in Britain, Tony Blair has announced that 'talent is 21st-century wealth'. This view of knowledge-driven capitalism has led all the developed economies to increase numbers of highly-trained people in preparation for technical, professional, and managerial employment. But it also harbours the view that what we regard as a 'skilled' worker is being transformed. The pace of technological innovation, corporate restructuring, and the changing nature of work require a new configuration of skills described in the language of creativity, teamwork, employability, self-management, and lifelong learning. But is this optimistic account of a future of high-skilled work for all justified? This book draws on the findings of a major international comparative study of national routes to a 'high skills' economy in Britain, Germany, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and the United States, and includes data from interviews with over 250 key stakeholders. It is the first book to offer a comparative examination of 'high skill' policies -- a topic of major public debate that is destined to become of even greater importance in all the developed economies in the early decades of the twenty-first century.

Skill and Occupational Change

Skill and Occupational Change
Author: Roger Penn
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1994
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198279280

In this major new book leading sociologists, economists, and social psychologists present their highly original research into changes in jobs in Britain in the 1980s. Combining large-scale sample surveys, personal life-histories, and case studies of towns, employers, and worker groups, their findings give clear and often surprising answers to questions debated by social and economic observers in all advanced countries. Does technology destroy skills or rebuild them? How does skill affect the attitudes of employees and their managers towards their jobs? Are women gaining greater skill equality with men, or are they still stuck on the lower rungs of the skill and occupational ladders? The book also takes up neglected issues (what do employees really mean by a skilled job? How does skill-change link with changes in social values?) and challenges and discredits the widely held view that new technology has de-skilled the work force. Skill and Occupational Change exploits the richest single data-set available in contemporary Europe and the authors exemplify many new techniques for researching skills at work: as an economic resource, as a motor of occupational change, and as a basis for personal careers and identity. It provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and carefully researched set of conclusions to date on skill trends and their implications and draws the authoritative new map of skill-change in British society.

Social Skills Training for Children and Youth

Social Skills Training for Children and Youth
Author: Craig Lecroy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1135848548

One of the most complete sources of information on the development of social skills training with youth, this useful volume integrates current research and practice. Practitioners interested in establishing or revising current social service delivery programs for children and adolescents will discover valuable conceptual and programmatic ideas.

OECD Skills Studies Skills on the Move Migrants in the Survey of Adult Skills

OECD Skills Studies Skills on the Move Migrants in the Survey of Adult Skills
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2018-10-29
Genre:
ISBN: 9264307354

Migration has been at the centre of political debate across the OECD in recent years. Drawing on data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this report provides new evidence on differences in migrants’ characteristics and contexts and considers how these relate to the skills migrants ...

Skill in Ancient Ethics

Skill in Ancient Ethics
Author: Tom Angier
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350104337

Illustrating the centrality of skill within ancient ethics, including Socrates' search for expertise in virtue, the Republic's 'craft of justice', Aristotle's delineation of the politike techne, the Stoics' 'art of life' and ancient Chinese ethics, this collection shows how skill has been an ethical touchstone from the beginning of philosophical thought. Divided into six sections – on Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Mencius and Xunzi, the Mohists and Zhuangzi, and comparative perspectives – world-leading philosophers explore the significance of skill according to traditional figures, as well as lesser-known philosophers such as Carneades and Antipater, and texts such as the Zhuangzi. In doing so, the seventeen contributors illustrate how skill, expertise and 'know how' are essential to and foundational within ancient ethical thought. As the first collection to foreground skill as central to ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese ethics, this is an essential resource for anyone interested in the value of cross-cultural philosophy today.

Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills: A Practical Guide

Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills: A Practical Guide
Author: Judith A. Beto
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2023-01-19
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1284284085

Collaboratively written members of the Nutrition Educators of Dietetic Preceptors (NDEP) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics under the editorship of Judith A. Beto, Nutrition Counseling and Education Skills: A Practical Guide helps students and dietetic practitioners develop the communications, counseling, interviewing, motivational, and professional skills they’ll need as Registered Dietitian professionals. Throughout the book, the authors focus on effective nutrition interventions, evidence-based theories and models, clinical nutrition principles, and knowledge of behavioral science and educational approaches.

Post-Fordism and Skill

Post-Fordism and Skill
Author: Denise Thursfield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2017-11-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351726005

This title was first published in 2000. An in-depth analysis of skill, core and periphery in the context of the firm and its wider economic and product market, management strategies, technology and gender. The book provides a unique model through which to explain the perceptions of those involved in production in the context of a shift from the Fordist to the post-Fordist production paradigm.