Worker Personality: Another Skill Bias Beyond Education in the Digital Age

Bode, Eckhardt; Brunow, Stephan; Ott, Ingrid; Sorgner, Alina

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2884733

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“…10 Table 2 summarises the themes that emerged regarding the obstacles virtual inclusion faces, and also the themes that emerged around actions that can be taken to overcome them. 11 Notably, twenty of the thirty actions identified to respond to identified obstacles undoubtedly require managers with high levels of social skills to execute them effectively (we delineate these from other actions in Table 2 with the italic font for ease of reference). Table 2 illustrates the importance of managers with high social skills for the effective running of organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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The Accelerated Value of Social Skills in Knowledge Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Josten¹,

Lordan

2021

LSE Public Policy Review

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a debate around which skills will be the most valuable in its aftermath. This study discusses the relevance of social skills in this debate and presents new evidence that shows its necessity. Specifically, we focus on knowledge workers and highlight that the importance of social skills was increasing pre-COVID-19 for these workers and that this importance has increased further during the pandemic, particularly for those in management roles. This study has also emphasised that we are at the beginning of the learning curve in understanding how social skills can be taught effectively to adults, and in particular knowledge workers. Establishing this evidence base is particularly important as governments around the world reconsider their skills agenda as a way to build up their economies post COVID-19.

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Section: Working Together Virtuallymentioning

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“…The drawback is that we risk missed nuances as it is largely subjective. To overcome this two researchers worked independently on determining the themes, and came together ex post to discuss the findings 11. We note that a more complete overview of the obstacles identified and actions that can be taken can be found in Lordan[35].…”

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The Accelerated Value of Social Skills in Knowledge Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Josten¹,

Lordan

2021

LSE Public Policy Review

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“…The improvement of enterprises' technological level may lead to the substitution effect of technology, which reduces the demand for labor (Vienneau, 2019). Conversely, technological progress can stimulate consumption and investment demand by reducing product costs and increasing income, thus expanding employment opportunities (Bode et al, 2019). This paper uses the ACF method to measure total factor productivity, and the estimated coefficient of this variable cannot be determined.…”

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The Employment Effect Of Chinese Enterprises Embedded In The Global Environmental Value Chain

Wang¹,

Chen²,

Kedong³

2021

Preprint

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The employment effect of enterprises embedded in global value chains has important theoretical value, but existing research has ignored the impact of cross-border pollution transfer on employment under the division of labor system within the value chain. This study constructs a global environmental value chain (GEVC) analysis framework to combine economic and environmental issues and establishes a theoretical model to discuss the impact of the degree of enterprise embeddedness in the GEVC on employment. Using 2000–2006 data from the China Industry Business Performance and China Customs databases, the study finds that an increase in the degree of enterprise embeddedness has a significant inhibitory effect on employment, especially for female laborers, lower-skilled laborers, state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and enterprises in the eastern region. The research also shows that the cost increase effect enhances the negative effect of increased GEVC embeddedness on employment, while the innovation promotion effect and the foreign direct investment effect serve to mitigate the negative effect. The results provide a reference for developing countries seeking to effectively protect people's livelihood and employment while achieving a leap in the division of labor along the green value chain.

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“…Whereas, requirements at the workplace increasingly emphasize the importance of non-cognitive skills (Deming, 2017 ; Bode et al, 2019 ; see also Weidmann and Deming, 2020 ), employers are at the same time concerned with a lack of social skills in applicants which is detrimental for employability (European Commission, 2016 , 2017 ). One approach to enhance social skills are intervention programs.…”

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Utilizing Incentivized Economic Experiments to Test for Social Skills Acquisition Through Physical Education: Study Protocol of the Movigen Project

Haas¹,

Wittelsberger²,

Wäsche³

et al. 2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Besides cognitive skills, non-cognitive skills—social skills in particular—are crucial for outcomes in various domains of life. The present work describes the design of the Movigen project, an intervention study with children aged 10–13 years using enhanced physical education lessons to foster social skills in a playful way. Utilizing a novel methodological approach various incentivized economic experiments were applied to test for spillover effects of the intervention on social skills. At three points during the course of the study individuals participated in a series of incentivized economic experiments to elicit economic preferences and personality traits. Additional information about physical activity and free time activities, different psychometric scales, and family background were elicited with questionnaires. Furthermore, a subset of individuals was equipped with accelerometers for 7 days to validate the answers on physical activity in the questionnaire. The data set comprises a treatment group which received enhanced physical education lessons and a control group which received regular physical education lessons at school. The comparison of individuals' decision in the economic experiments between both groups allows to study the impact of our intervention on social skills.

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Worker Personality: Another Skill Bias Beyond Education in the Digital Age

Cited by 5 publications

References 62 publications

The Accelerated Value of Social Skills in Knowledge Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Accelerated Value of Social Skills in Knowledge Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

The Employment Effect Of Chinese Enterprises Embedded In The Global Environmental Value Chain

Utilizing Incentivized Economic Experiments to Test for Social Skills Acquisition Through Physical Education: Study Protocol of the Movigen Project

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