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Supporting Workplace Learning for High Performance Working

By: David N. Ashton,Johnny Sung

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Supporting Workplace Learning for High Performance Working

By: David N. Ashton,Johnny Sung

Explores workplace learning as a means of enhancing both work performance and the quality of working life. Identifies characteristics of high performance work organizations, considers the implementation of high performance work practices and investigates how far these practices are embedded in different countries. Examines ways in which public policy can be used to encourage organizations to make more effective use of the skills of their employees.

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International Labour Organization

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9221128016

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9789221128014

Skills in Business

The Role of Business Strategy, Sectoral Skills Development and Skills Policy

By: Johnny Sung,David N Ashton

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Skills in Business

The Role of Business Strategy, Sectoral Skills Development and Skills Policy

By: Johnny Sung,David N Ashton

Johnny Sung and David Ashton are two of the leading scholars in the area of skills. This book combines challenging theories with cutting edge research in a way that should bring skills to life for students. I strongly recommend it for anyone researching or studying in this area. - Irena Grugulis, Leeds University Business School "A much needed contribution to the complex debate of how skills can best be utilised to enhance company performance, with particular emphasis on an innovative sectoral approach. It is a model of clarity in its presentation of the authors’ conceptual models using a historical narrative as well as comparative case studies in both the UK and Singapore." - Bert Clough, Leeds University Business School Public skills policy in most market economies in the last forty years made one repeated error, time and again. We seem to be unable to learn from those mistakes. Consistently, public policies view a wide range of economic and social issues e.g. low productivity, low-skilled jobs, low wage, inequality and in-work poverty as the consequence of skills deficits and a lack of qualifications held by individual workers. Whilst mis-diagnosing the source of the problems and failing to deliver any effective change, public skills policies continue with a policy prescription of ‘more skills’ and ‘more degrees’. If we have not solved the problems with this decade-old approach, why should the same medicine work this time? This book examines the role of public skills policy from a completely different perspective. It starts by challenging the lack of a systematic analysis of the link between skills utilisation and business strategy, and provides a new model for fresh thinking. The book extends this theoretical analysis to examine the implications for the sectoral approach to skills development as a more effective form of public skills policy. David N. Ashton is Emeritus Professor at the University of Leicester and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University. Johnny Sung is at The Institute for Adult Learning, Singapore Workforce Development Agency, Singapore.

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SAGE

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1473908922

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9781473908925

Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War

The Irony of Interdependence

By: N. Ashton

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Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War

The Irony of Interdependence

By: N. Ashton

Nigel J. Ashton analyses Anglo-American relations during a crucial phase of the Cold War. He argues that although policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic used the term 'interdependence' to describe their relationship this concept had different meanings in London and Washington. The Kennedy Administration sought more centralized control of the Western alliance, whereas the Macmillan Government envisaged an Anglo-American partnership. This gap in perception gave rise to a 'crisis of interdependence' during the winter of 1962-3, encompassing issues as diverse as the collapse of the British EEC application, the civil war in the Yemen, the denouement of the Congo crisis and the fate of the British independent nuclear deterrent.

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Springer

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0230800017

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9780230800014

Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser

Anglo-American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955-59

By: N. Ashton

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Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser

Anglo-American Relations and Arab Nationalism, 1955-59

By: N. Ashton

The years 1955-59 were a vital transitional period for the Anglo-American relationship in the Middle East. British and American leaders sought to protect cold war and oil interests in the region against the background of a renaissance of Arab nationalism personified by the Egyptian leader Nasser. With the aid of extensive declassified official documentation, this study traces the British and American responses to the Turco-Iraqi Pact of 1955, the Suez crisis, the Syrian crisis of 1957, the outbreak of civil strife in Lebanon, and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958. It shows how the differing priorities of the two powers in the region promoted a patchwork of confrontation and cooperation over Middle Eastern questions. For Britain, this study reveals that it was the Iraqi Revolution rather than Suez which led to a redefinition of strategy in the region, and a concentration on the defence of her oil interests in the Gulf.

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Springer

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0230378978

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9780230378971

The Salem Athenæum, 1810-1910

By: Joseph N. Ashton

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The Salem Athenæum, 1810-1910

By: Joseph N. Ashton

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0530789655

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Book's by N. Ashton

Supporting Workplace Learning for High Performance Working

Supporting Workplace Learning for High Performance Working

Skills in Business

Skills in Business

Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War

Kennedy, Macmillan and the Cold War

Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser

Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser

The Salem Athenæum, 1810-1910

The Salem Athenæum, 1810-1910

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