Breaking the Credentials Barrier

Miller, Serena

doi:10.1177/019263656805232906

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“…As employers have raised standards of employability, access to good jobs and careers has increasingly been stratified, and correlated with social origin, race, and levels of educational attainment. Manpower policies have ignored this problem, despite recent research findings which suggest that employment and promotional standards are highly overstated (see Berg, 1970;Miller, 1967).…”

Section: Obstacles To Effective Manpower Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

Manpower Issues for the City

Rosen¹

1970

Urban Affairs Quarterly

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Manpower problems are closely connected with many other aspects of the urban crisis; effective solutions to the manpower challenge will take us a long way toward coping with the soaring welfare rolls and costs, reversing a declining tax base, reviving the economic role of the city in the nation's economic life, and healing the tension between the races which has already threatened to rip apart the social fabric of our cities. If we can devise more effective strategies to raise the productivity and the earned incomes of our urban labor force, we will strengthen the capacity of cities to survive and to flourish. This survival is clearly the key to the future of the economy and the society which depends on it. THE URBAN LABOR FORCEThe evidence is not clear, but the probability is that we have slipped backwards over the past twenty years in coping with the manpower

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Section: Obstacles To Effective Manpower Usagementioning

confidence: 99%

Manpower Issues for the City

Rosen¹

1970

Urban Affairs Quarterly

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“…built-in education as part of the regular work-day or work-year, provided by credential-granting educational institutions; 3. educational style and content geared as closely as possible to the actual requirements of successful job performance, both at present and at higher levels, based on task analysis and other techniques for translating work content into educational programs;13 4. education provided close to or on the work site, and linked with actual skills training which would normally not be credential-yielding; and 5. successful completion of education and training sequences defined by em-ployers as sufficient evidence of career advancement, assuring employees that the rewards for educational achievement will be concrete and meaningful.…”

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confidence: 99%