While the acquisition of skills has become a major public need, there is increasing dependence for their provision on individual firms. These firms can have no responsibility for general needs with government action being restricted to residual care for the unemployed rather than contributing at the leading edge of advanced skills policy. The authors argue that public agencies must find new ways of working with the business sector, acquiring expertise and authority through such means as supporting skills standards and taking the lead in the certification of employers as trainers.

Are Skills the Answer?: The Political Economy of Skill Creation in Advanced Industrial Countries

Business & Money

CROUCH, COLIN

Finegold, David

Sako, Mari

Economics

Oxford University Press

This outstanding work reveals how boards governing 21st-century organizations can change their practices and align their principles to successfully govern the organization of the new economy. The authors propose that judging a board's effectiveness should be done not in a "shareholder" context but in a "stakeholder" context instead. They couch their reforms in a framework that focuses on what determines effective governance behavior: information, knowledge, power, and rewards. They argue it is behavior, not practices that count, and look at boards from a group and an organizational perspective.

Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top

Conger, Jay A.

Lawler, III, Edward E.

Biography & History

Jossey-Bass

Something Borrowed, Something Learned?: The Transatlantic Market in Education and Training Reform

This work considers British education, tracing reform policy during the final years of the Thatcher government, that borrows from the United States. It provides a useful opportunity for general understanding of the education and training process and the role international comparisons can play in shaping the domestic education and training policy agenda.

Education & Teaching

Richardson, William

McFarland, Laurel

Schools & Teaching

Brookings Inst Pr

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Endocrinology 2 (Slide Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis)

Science & Math

Gower Medical Pub

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