The Skills That Matter [Paperback]

The Skills That Matter is an edited collection written by leading academics from the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia in the area of skills acquisition, formation and development. It combines academic evidence and policy debates with a critical analysis, making it an asset to students of HRM, industrial relations, sociology of work and business and management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as being a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the field of skill formation.The Skills That Matter is an edited collection written by leading academics from the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia in the area of skills acquisition, formation and development. It combines academic evidence and policy debates with a critical analysis, making it an asset to students of HRM, industrial relations, sociology of work and business and management at both undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as being a useful resource to researchers and policy makers working in the field of skill formation.Whatever Happened to Skill?; I.Grugulis, C.Warhurst & E.Keep.- Conceptual Confusions: Emotion Work as Skilled Work; S.C.Bolton.- Skills that Matter and Shortages that Don't; A.Westwood.- The Interdependence of Social and Technical Skills in the Sale of Emergent Technology; A.Darr.- Training Reform in a Weakened State: Australia 1987-2000; I.Hampson.- Exploring the Concept of Employer Demand for Skills and Qualifications: Case Studies from the Public Sector; H.Rainbird, A.Munro & L.Holly.- What is 'Skill'? Training for Discipline in the Low-Wage Labour Market; G.Lafar.- The Institutionalisation of Skill Division in Britain and Germany: Examples from the Construction Industry; L.Clarke & G.Herrmann.- Job Complexity and Task Discretion: Tracking the Direction of Skills at Work in Britain; A.Felstead, D.Gallie & F.Green.- Lifelong Learning and Workplace Relations: Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet, Worlý