The automation of job tasks due to technological change increases the pressure on workers whose jobs consist largely of such activities. In this context, politics and science attach great importance to further training, although the benefits for affected workers have hardly been investigated. Drawing on human capital theory and the task-based…

In this paper the authors explore the implications for higher education of the disruptions caused by changes in the retail sector resulting from rapid developments in technology. Industry 4.0 technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things, blockchain, automation, robotics, artificial intelligence and virtual reality are increasingly evident…

Issues currently affecting employee training are the impact of high technology, worker adaptability, the communications revolution, job satisfaction, underinvestment in human capital, demographic shifts, and interest in productivity improvement. (SK)

Canada's National Advisory Panel on Skill Development Leave recommends that the response to technological and structural change must be learning throughout life and proposes universal educational leave to allow people continuous access to retraining and upgrading opportunities. (SK)

The author reports on a survey of 64 human resources managers. Forty-eight percent of the respondents indicated that their organizations had some type of retraining program. Topics covered include (1) retraining topics, (2) employee types, (3) program content, (4) trainee scheduling, (5) completion rates, (6) payment, and (7) program success. (CH)

To provide information on the relationship of automation to changing occupational patterns and related worker displacements, examples of automation and technological change in industry are given. Some summary findings are: (1) Technological advancements cause some jobs to disappear and also cause some new jobs to appear, (2) Many workers dispaced…

This interview with the General Secretary of the International Federation of Commercial, Clerical, Professional, and Technical Employees ranges over the problems created for these workers by micro-technology. (SK)

In the coming decades, schools will change from closed teaching systems to open learning systems. Compulsory attendance, grades, and degrees will tend to disappear. Learning will be more future oriented, less retrospective. Survival in a changing world will mean that man must learn, unlearn, and learn again. (Author)

Presents new evidence on the effect of technology on worker alienation, using data from the organizational level as well as the individual level. In the latter approach, the impact of automation on the work of newspaper printers is examined. (SK)

Vocational agriculture must continue to be sensitive to the labor market needs of the agricultural industry. As technology changes the world of work, it inevitably affects workers and students. School curriculum and vocational agriculture teachers must keep up-to-date with these changes. (LRA)

Today's information technology-based economy makes job-related knowledge and workplace skills obsolete faster than ever before. As a result, many adults are heading back to school, often because of the demands of the marketplace that has little place for those without current credentials. (Author/JOW)

THE NATURE AND APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS OF THE TECHNICAL SKILL OBSOLESCENCE PROBLEM WERE STUDIED AS A RESULT OF THE WIDELY ALLEGED OCCURRENCE IN RECENT YEARS OF DETERIORATION OF SKILLS AMONG PRACTICING ENGINEERS AND APPLIED SCIENTISTS RESULTING FROM THE MASSIVE EMERGENCE OF NEW SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE DURING THE PAST QUARTER CENTURY.…

Explores the relationship between vocational education and customized training; identifies the significant opportunities customized training holds for vocational education and the conditions under which those opportunities may be realizied. (JOW)

Discusses factors contributing to the increased urgency for retraining, associated problems of the dislocated workers, barriers to retraining, the inherent potential of America's work force, and new mechanisms and incentives to promote retraining. (CT)