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The Future of Workforce Development—Old Wine in New Bottles?
No full textIn recent years organisations have been compelled to adopt an expanding range of workplace education and training activities in order to remain competitive and survive. Developing people to gain, maintain and obtain new employment, sometimes called employability, has become accepted practice and part of the human resource practitioners' narrative. However, the language we use to describe these learning events has changed from one decade to the next-largely in response to adjustments in vocational education policy, developments in society and evolutions in the nature of work. Workforce development is the latest label in a long line of professional titles given to workplace education and training activities and in this chapter we attempt to discover whether the current vocabulary reflects a surge in innovation or is simply a case of putting old wine into new bottles. In this final chapter we identify a selection of important findings from each section and synthesise them into a concept model of ten topics arranged in three broad themes of environment, place and people. We conclude as a consequence of these emerging issues that the strategies and workforce development practices deployed by organisations in the future will become much less predictable than previous generations, more diverse and challenging for upcoming HRD professionals
Leading Multiple Generations in the Australian Rail Workplace
No full textThe emergence of multi-generational organisations and the need for leaders to develop ‘generational competence’ is a contentious topic in the literature. Academics argue that multi-generation organisations are nothing new and warn us of the dangers of making sweeping generalisations about the behaviours and outlook of people who belong to a particular age classification. Conversely, market surveys and consulting reports, primarily led from the USA, claim the existence of such a growing phenomenon and suggest that organisations must treat different cohorts of employees in a way that capitalises on their age-related values and working preferences. These studies have given rise to popular terms such as Baby Boomers and Generation X and Y.
This chapter draws on research findings to uncover how one industry in Australia is dealing with a workforce of four generations. We comment on how the rapidly ageing industry is facing major challenges in transferring tacit knowledge and skills from one generation to the next and how workforce development activities accommodate the needs of different age groups such as attracting apprentices, up-skilling returning workers and assisting those who are ready to retire. The findings remind us of the need to plan and prepare for career transitions at all generational levels
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Building Leadership Capability: What It Means for Rail Organisations
No full textThis chapter draws attention to the pressing need for all organisations to build leadership capability at a time in history when leadership is a recurring and signifi cant theme in popular discourse. According to international experts, leadership is the most pressing issue facing organisations today because of the turbulent and complex environments where endless change and unexpected events have become the norm. In Australia, the pool of leadership talent has decreased at a faster rate than many other parts of the world, while at the same time investments in leadership development activities are higher than many other developed countries. In this chapter we aim to demystify the challenge of building leadership capability and move beyond the rhetoric to explore what can be done as part of a workforce development strategy. This chapter reports on fi ndings taken from a leadership study undertaken between 2009 and 2011 which contributed to the development of a leadership capability framework in the Australian rail industry. The study concluded that many industries such as rail should utilise top-level frameworks of good practice while also making leadership development fi t the local context of each unique environment
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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