Digital Transformation and the Future of Work

Brown, Phillip; Souto-Otero, Manuel; Sadik, Sahara

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“…Additionally, the availability of appropriate skills for leveraging emerging technologies is a crucial determinant of national competitiveness and innovation capabilities (Spötti & Windelband, 2021). Companies have trouble defining their skill requirements due to rapid technological development (Brown et al, 2019). But, people's ability to contribute to and benefit from a more equitable and sustainable future largely depends on the education they get.…”

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Teachers’ Perspective of Soft Skills Development in Business Studies

Mabić,

Gašpar,

Ćorić

2024

DIEM Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting

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Education and employment stakeholders worldwide have increasingly acknowledged the need to teach students soft skills to improve their academic performance and long-term prospects. Soft skills are transferable across jobs and industries and related to personal and social competencies. Their development aims to empower and increase personal growth and learning participation and improve job opportunities. Given their central role in shaping students’ educational experiences, teachers must be well-versed in the value of cultivating soft skills and awareness of the necessity to incorporate their study into various curricular frameworks. As a result, this article investigates whether business schools adequately prepare their students for the soft skills demanded by today’s labor market. Business teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina were the subjects of the survey. The findings indicate that teachers recognize the value of teaching students soft skills but that current curricula may be strengthened in this area.

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Teachers’ Perspective of Soft Skills Development in Business Studies

Mabić,

Gašpar,

Ćorić

2024

DIEM Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting

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“…EC, 2021a; OECD, 2016). However, problems in defining digital skills, coupled with a paucity of evidence from the workplace, make it difficult to assess how requirements are actually changing (Brown et al, 2018; Keep, 2021). This raises questions as to whether terms like ‘crisis’ and claims of escalating skills gaps may overplay the complexity of some of these new skill demands.…”

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“…These categorisations are designed to have general application across the economy but are remote from what is happening at the workplace. Unsurprisingly, there have been calls for greater contextualisation (Orlik, 2018), and a closer examination of digital skills requirements in specific sectors and occupations (Brown et al, 2018; Keep, 2021). As Kispeter (2018: 58) notes, ‘the most important gap concerns information about digital skills from workplaces and from the perspective of workers’, especially the lower skilled.…”

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Digital skills in context: Working with robots in lower-skilled jobs

Lloyd

Payne

2022

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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Digital skills are increasingly presented as essential for work and labour market inclusion, with fears the low-skilled could be left behind. Lack of clarity about these new skill demands and limited evidence from the workplace have prompted calls to unpack skill requirements in specific sectors and occupations. This article analyses digital skills in relation to wider skills and knowledge required in a job, and examines the influence of the workplace, sector and national institutional context. The study focuses on robotic technologies in lower-skilled jobs, drawing on the experience of food and drink processing operatives, and logistic porters and service workers in public hospitals, in Norway and the UK. The article contributes to the conceptualisation of digital skills, probes country differences, and offers a grounded understanding of the challenges presented for workers in lower-skilled jobs.

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Digital Transformation and the Future of Work

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Teachers’ Perspective of Soft Skills Development in Business Studies

Teachers’ Perspective of Soft Skills Development in Business Studies

Digital skills in context: Working with robots in lower-skilled jobs

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