Essential Skills - National Adult Literacy Database

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Essential Skills and the Northern Oil and Gas Workforce Final Report and Resource Guide
Solutions to skill shortages
Δ Skill Upgrading
Δ Reduce Emigration
Δ Increase Immigration
Δ Restructuring of the Workplace
& the HR Management approach
Research suggests that we still
under-utilize our workforce
• Research done by Harvey Krahn with respect to
literacy skills determined that in the current labor
force about 26% of employees were mismatched
in skill requirement.
• But rather than being employed beyond their
current skill level the researchers found that 21%
of these mis-matched employees were underemployed
for their skill level.
• In the 21% (under-utilized) there was a higher
representation by women and young workers.
More research suggesting skill
degradation
• The new ALLs (Adult literacy and lifeskills
survey) to be released this Oct confirms:
• the level of essential skills (literacy and numeracy)
actually decreased in a group of students from the
time they graduated from school until 6 years later
in the workforce.
• Another example of under-utilization of skills in
the workplace, you lose what you don’t use.
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What does this have to do with
Job Design?
•Job Design has a huge
influence on the effective
use of Human Capital
•Job Designhas a huge
influence on the effective
use of Human Capital
Potential
What people are capable of achieving
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