Improving lifelong learning - a toolbox
With this white paper the Adecco Institute gives a new impetus to the implementation of lifelong learning beyond the Lisbon targets, which were set for 2010. In cooperation with the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development, a multidisciplinary perspective on lifelong learning has been chosen to stimulate the debate on how to bring new dynamics into the European training landscape. For this purpose results from cognitive sciences and social sciences were combined to yield a fresh perspective on the "evergreen" topic of lifelong learning.
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Public-private partnerships: Improving labour market performance
As the economic downturn hits hard, the acute problem of unemployment intensifies, especially amongst disadvantaged groups. This Adecco white paper explores the success factors for partnerships between public and private employment services, increasingly seen as an effective route to improve labour market performance and integrate the unemployed into the workforce.
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Public-private partnerships in labour markets: A managers survey
Who has the greater competence to resolve the problem of growing unemployment – the public sector with its public employment services, or private human resources (HR) service providers with their closeness to companies? Research amongst top managers in the European Union’s five largest economies reveals their opinion on the respective roles and opportunities of public and private employment services in tackling unemployment and how they can be partners in this quest.
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IT and engineering skills shortages - are you prepared?
The paper outlines the causes and effects of IT and engineering skills shortages that pose a significant threat to corporate growth and prosperity, especially in developed nations. Six practical steps that companies can take to address these shortages are outlined in a report that explores the interaction of drivers such as increasing automation, change in the IT and engineering arenas, globalization and demographic trends.
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The new role of "HR in the future"
The Adecco Institute surveyed more than 5,000 HR executives over two years on topics including skill shortages, career management, knowledge management, and lifelong learning, among others. Informed by these interviews as well as industry reports and workforce surveys, this Adecco Institute white paper argues that Talent Management – the effective assessment of and planning for a company’s human resources needs – will be the single most important focus of HR in the future.
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