The great skills gap : optimizing talent for the future of work /

"An extraordinary confluence of forces stemming from automation and digital technologies is transforming both the world of work and the ways we educate current and future employees to contribute productively to the workplace. The Great Skills Gap opens with the premise that the exploding scope...

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Other Authors: Wingard, Jason (Editor), Farrugia, Christine A. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Talent of the future : are we missing the mark?. Equipping a new generation with the skills needed in the automation age / Susan Lund and Bryan Hancock
  • The role of citizen developers in developing technological literacy / Lance Braunstein
  • The future of work : four difficult questions I ask myself as an employer / Matthew Pittinsky
  • Why geography is so important / Michael L. Ulica
  • Enabling a high-performing, human-centered organization in Pfizer's Upjohn division / Amrit Ray, Lu Hong, and Trish White
  • How the future of work impacts the workforce of technical organizations / Gregory L. Robinson
  • Corporate learning and development has a vital role to play in the robotics revolution
  • is it ready? / Uli Heitzlhofer
  • Higher education : still the solution for a workforce in flux?. Supporting unlearning to enable upskilling / Chris Dede
  • Higher education's changing faces : serving STEM learners for a lifetime / Yakut Gazi and Nelson Baker
  • The future of business education : new economies of automation, certification, and scale / Anne Trumbore
  • Back to the future : fragile workers, higher education, and the future knowledge economy / Earl Lewis, Alford Young, Jr., Justin Shaffner, and Julie Arbit
  • The evolution of the liberal arts / Christopher Mayer
  • The evolution of liberal education in a technology-mediated, global society / Kelly J. Otter
  • The core and the adult student / David Schejbal
  • Perpetual learning as alumni engagement : renewing the social contract / Matthew Rascoff and James DeVaney
  • Bridging the gap between learning and labor. Harnessing the power and potential of diversity and inclusion / Stephanie Bell-Rose and Anne Ollen
  • Public education and the future of work / Ross Wiener
  • Developing workers for the workplace : how businesses and higher education can alleviate worker barriers to retraining or upskilling / X. Susan Zhu, Alexander Alonso, and Johnny C. Taylor
  • Past as prologue : apprenticeship and the future of work / Mary Alice McCarthy
  • Bachelor's-level registered apprenticeship for engineers : possibilities and challenges / Daniel Kuehn
  • The agility imperative : the future of work and business-higher education partnerships / Jason A. Tyszko and Robert G. Sheets
  • Demand for the "blended digital professional" / Brian K. Fitzgerald, Isabel Cardenas-Navia, and Janet Chen
  • A coherent approach to connect : education and the future of work / LaVerne Srinivasan, Elise Henson, and Farhad Asghar