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- Adapting to the knowledge economy. // Finweek;8/10/2006, p68
The article points out that a knowledge economy, to which South Africa is heading, requires educated professionals. The pool of human capital in South Africa is minimal so that companies have to recruit people from other countries, while others which require more general skills, such as...
- HR giants meet up to confront key issues. // Personnel Today;7/13/2004, p3
Seven of the leading human resource (HR) directors in Great Britain gathered together at a networking event in central London last week, addressing an audience of HR professionals, along with others aspiring to get into the industry. The event, organised and hosted by Personnel Today and...
- Developing the Federal Natural Resource Workforce. Gropp, Robert E. // BioScience;Jan2004, Vol. 54 Issue 1, p16
Discusses the awareness of the U.S. government's need to replenish a natural resource workforce. Federal natural resource management and science agencies which began to craft workforce development and recruitment plans; Problem faced by decisionmakers regarding the loss of human capital;...
- Human Capital: Meeting the Governmentwide High-Risk Challenge: GAO-01-357T. // GAO Reports;2/1/2001, p1
People are the federal government's most valuable asset in managing for results. The importance of human capital is underscored by the many links GAO has identified between agencies' human capital shortfalls and the programmatic challenges. A consensus has yet to emerge on broad-based federal...
- Employers face increasingly tough global battle for talent. Wilkinson, Amanda // Employee Benefits;Jul2007, p12
The article reports on the status of labor supply in Great Britain. Talent management specialists face a global war for talented staff and must revise reward strategies to help recruit employees in this group. The shortage of the availability of talent are contributed to the economic downturn...
- Covering all the bases. Klaff, Leslie Gross // Workforce Management;Dec2005, Vol. 84 Issue 14, Special Section p4
The article discusses the most influential trends in workforce management in the U.S. for 2006. As health care costs continue to rise far beyond the rate of inflation, consumer-directed health plans are taking off as a way to alleviate costs. The portion of human resource (HR) budgets directed...
- Force Structure: Air Force Needs a Periodic Total Force Assessment: GAO-02-541. // GAO Reports;5/2/2002, p1
The Air Force began to test the force requirements in its manpower requirements-determination process in May 2000. The defense strategy envisions simultaneously fighting two major theater wars and conducting multiple contingency operations in peacetime. The Total Force Assessment was the Air...
- First step towards human capital management. Kearns, Paul // Personnel Today;4/20/2004, p17
At a time when conventional accounting and auditing practices are in turmoil as a direct consequence of the debacle over the black holes found in the accounts of organizations such as Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat, the HR profession� for once� need make no apologies. HCM is coming, whether...
- Women are the key to filling skills gaps. Woolnough, Roisin // Personnel Today;5/11/2004, p8
Employers in the construction, engineering, IT and plumbing industries need to recruit more women if they are to overcome critical skills shortages. Likewise, the childcare industry needs to attract more men to plug its skills gap. Caroline Slowcock, chief executive at the Equal Opportunities...
