France has a lifelong vocational training system to provide education opportunities throughout people's lives. Initial vocational training concerns young people in full-time education and apprenticeships, while lifelong vocational training concerns those who have left initial education as well as adults already working. Vocational training represents about 1.5% of France's GDP and includes options from technical education to apprenticeships to higher education degrees. The system is jointly overseen by the national government and regional authorities working with industry representatives.
This paper explores different definitions and uses of the term "competence" in human resource development contexts. It finds that competence is a "fuzzy concept" with inconsistent usage. The paper analyzes approaches to competence in the US, UK, France, Germany and Austria. It argues that a holistic framework incorporating knowledge, skills, competences and competencies is needed to integrate education/training with labor market needs and promote workforce mobility.
Your network on LinkedIn currently consists of 2,442 direct connections, over 1 million connections two degrees away (friends of friends), and over 15 million connections three degrees away (friends of friends of friends), totaling over 16.5 million connections. The total number of LinkedIn users that can be contacted directly is over 100 million. The document then provides additional details on the geographic and industry breakdown of the user's network.
The document outlines an employee engagement strategy for a company using the concept of running the business like a theater. It discusses how building emotional commitment from employees through effective communication of the company strategy and employee roles can boost engagement levels. The strategy proposes using theater terminology and concepts to help employees understand the connection between their work and the company's goals in order to drive discretionary effort.
Ford sells its Hertz rental car subsidiary to a group of private equity investors including Clayton Dubilier & Rice, Carlyle Group, and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity for $15 billion. Ford will receive $5.6 billion in cash from the sale, allowing it to strengthen its balance sheet as its automotive profits decline. The new owners plan to keep Hertz's management team in place for the foreseeable future as they take over the largest car rental company in the US from public to private ownership.
This document provides a six-step guide for organizations to establish and maintain an effective organizational value system. The steps include incorporating value setting into strategic planning, translating values into employee behaviors, training employees on values through "values facilitators," integrating values into organizational processes, reinforcing values across the workforce led by facilitators, and auditing behavioral alignment with values over time. The goal is to create a value system that defines an organization's culture and inspires employee commitment and engagement.
This document provides information about personal styles and a personal style inventory assessment. It includes:
1) Four personal style categories (extraversion/introversion, sensing/intuition, thinking/feeling, perceiving/judging) with descriptions of characteristics for each.
2) Learning goals of helping individuals identify their personal style and how it relates to behaviors and relationships.
3) An overview of the personal style inventory which measures eight style preferences across four categories to help individuals understand their most frequent patterns of thinking and behaving.
This document provides statistics about a LinkedIn user's professional network, including the total number of connections, industries and locations represented, and people that can be reached through connections. The user's network includes over 2,300 direct connections and the ability to reach over 16 million professionals through up to three degrees of connections. The full LinkedIn network exceeds 100 million users that can be contacted directly. The network statistics also show the top locations, industries, and fastest growing areas represented in the user's connections.
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The document is an invitation from a LinkedIn member to connect and share their research on employee engagement over the past two years. They developed a concept called "Human Sigma Made in France" which draws from various sources like Holacracy, Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and behavioral economics. It integrates lessons learned from past roles at Disney and Hertz to engage employees and customers through storytelling. The research aims to address how organizations can be run in the new global economy through new governance paradigms.
