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Skills mismatch and firm dynamics
Integrating skills with the world of work
Cedefop is organising in cooperation with the Centre for Research in Employment, Skills & Society (CRESS) a workshop on skill mismatch.
The aim of the workshop is to obtain a clearer insight into the relationship between work-based training, work organisation/human resource policies (e.g. recruitment, training, wage policies and performance appraisals, career development, job design) and skill mismatch within enterprises (see attached background note for a summary of the workshop's aims and objectives).
The objective is to strengthen our understanding of the incidence and impact of mismatch in different types of skills for firm performance, and of the underlying motives and incentives of enterprises with respect to the recruitment, training and career development of mismatched workers. The discussion of the workshop is intended to inform the European Commission’s policy goal of anticipating and matching the skills of the European workforce with the current and future skill needs of enterprises (e.g. Agenda for New Skills and Jobs).
The conference venue is at the heart of Westminster (http://www.onegreatgeorgestreet.com/).
Keynote speakers to the event include Prof. Michael Sattinger (University at Albany, New York) and Prof. Kostas Mavromaras (Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia). The workshop will also feature presentations by Dr. Seamus McGuiness (ESRI), Dr. Francois Rycx (University Libre de Bruxelles), Dr. Geoff Masson (NIESR) and representatives from Eurofound and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). A panel discussion session will host Dr.Katerina Rudiger (Skill policy adviser at CIPD) and Dr. Wolfang Mueller (Director, German Federal Employment Agency, European Representation) as speakers. A draft agenda is available below.
We invite interested participants to register their interest for the event by completing the attached registration form and returning it back to roula.panagiotou@cedefop.europa.eu. We regret that due to a limited number of spaces available, confirmation of participation to the event will only take place on a first-come-first-serve basis.
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Workshop draft agenda
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Posted on 12/12/2011
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