Skills Mismatch and Firm Dynamics: Integrating skills with the world of work

Date:

Friday 27 April 2012 8:30am - 5:30pm

Speaker:

High level experts on skills mismatch and firm policies & Business professionals

Venue:

One Great George Street Conference Centre, Westminster, london, SW1P 3AA

The Centre for Research in Employment, Skills & Society (CRESS) organised in cooperation with Cedefop a workshop on skill mismatch.

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The aim of the workshop was to obtain a clearer insight into the relationship between work-based training, work organisation/human resource policies (e.g. recruitment, training, wage policies and performance appraisals, career development, job design) and skill mismatch within enterprises. The objective was to strengthen our understanding of the important issues that need to be addressed with respect to the incidence and impact of mismatch in different types of skills for firm performance, and of the underlying motives and incentives of enterprises driving their recruitment, training and career development strategies for tackling skill mismatch.

The workshop was intended to inform the European Commission’s policy goal of anticipating and matching the skills of the European workforce with the current and future skill needs of enterprises (e.g. Agenda for New Skills and Jobs).

Keynote speakers to the event included Prof. Michael Sattinger (University at Albany, New York) and Prof. Kostas Mavromaras (Flinders University, Adelaide, S. Australia). The workshop will also feature presentations by Dr. S. McGuiness (ESRI), Dr. F. Rycx (University Libre de Bruxelles), Dr. G. Mason (NIESR), Dr. R. Homkes (LSE) and representatives from Eurofound (Dr. M.Curtarelli) and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) (Dr. A. Baron).  A panel discussion session will host Dr. K. Rudiger (CIPD), Dr. W. Mueller (Director, German Federal Employment Agency, European Representation) and Professor K. Mayhew (Oxford University, Director of SKOPE) as speakers.

Download the conclusions of the workhop