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Workforce Ready Challenges in the Asia Pacific
Herausgeber: Cameron, Roslyn; Burgess, John; Dhakal, Subas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together perspectives on employability challenges faced by countries in the Asia Pacific region and focuses on more effectively addressing these key socio-economic challenges.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138691759
• ISBN-10: 1138691755
• Artikelnr.: 50249872

Autorenporträt

Roslyn Cameron is Associate Professor and Head of HRM Discipline at the Australian Institute of Business. She is also Co-Convenor of the Mixed Methods Special Interest Group (MMR SIG) of the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM). Subas P. Dhakal is Lecturer at Curtin Business School in Curtin University. He is a management academic with expertise in the theory and practice of sustainable development. John Burgess is Professor of Management at RMIT University, Australia. His research interests include HRM practices of multinational enterprises, the relationship between working time and health, and work in care sectors.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: The Issues and the Challenges
1. Introduction: Applicant Work-Readiness and Graduate Employability
Challenges in the Asia Pacific (John Burgess, Roslyn Cameron, Subas Dhakal
and Kerry Brown)
2. Graduate Work Readiness in Asia Pacific Economies: A Review of the
Literature (Alan Nankervis, Verma Prikshat and Roslyn Cameron)
Part II: Country Studies
3. Labour Market and Work Readiness Challenges: The Case of Taiwan
(Min-Wen Sophie Chang and Julia Connell)
4. Enhancing Graduate Work-readiness in Vietnam (Nguyen Danh Nguyen and
Nguyen Ba Ngoc)
5. Work Readiness in Malaysia (Noorziah Mohd Salleh, Jude Emelifeonwu,
Jonathan Winterton and Kwok Mow Chan)
6. "The Perfect Storm": Constraints on Indonesian Economic Growth Posed by
Graduate Work-readiness Challenges (Soegeng Priyono and Alan Nankervis)
7. Work Readiness in Singapore (Peter Waring, Christopher Vas and Azad
Singh Bali)
8. Antecedents, Consequences, and Strategic Responses to Graduate
Work-Readiness: Challenges in India (Verma Prikshat, Sanjeev Kumar and
Parinita Raje)
9. Graduate Employability in Australia: Time for a VET and HE Overhaul?
(Alan Montague, Julia Connell and Barbara Mumme)
10. The State of Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training
Sectors in Nepal: Implications for Graduate Work-Readiness and Sustainable
Development (Subas Dhakal)
11. Work Readiness in Lao PDR (Vipapone Apayvanh)
Part III: Comparative Analysis and Conclusions
12. A Comparative Perspective on Work-Readiness Challenges in the Asia
Pacific Region (Subas Dhakal, John Burgess, Roslyn Cameron and Alan
Nankervis)
13. Conclusion: The future for Work-readiness and Graduate Employability in
the Asia Pacific (Roslyn Cameron, John Burgess, Subas Dhakal and Barbara
Munne)