An Experiment in Using Lay-Off Time for Improving Workers' Advancement Potential. Report on Two Years of the Job Advancement Training Program.

Titel	An Experiment in Using Lay-Off Time for Improving Workers' Advancement Potential. Report on Two Years of the Job Advancement Training Program.
Quelle	(1972), (82 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Basic Education; Career Counseling; Demonstration Programs; Employment Potential; Experimental Programs; Labor Force Development; Labor Relations; Program Attitudes; Program Evaluation; Promotion (Occupational); Remedial Programs; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult education; Erwachsenenbildung; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Erprobungsprogramm; Arbeitskräftebestand; Arbeitsbeziehung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Aufstiegsberuf; Berufsförderung; Förderprogramm; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	The Job Advancement Training Program (JAT) was an experimental demonstration project to determine whether workers, employers, and community agencies would perceive value in and respond positively to non-skills training opportunities offered to workers during periods of temporary layoff, and also to determine if the training seemed to have increased promotion possibilities for the enrollees. Conclusions from the project experience show that temporarily laid-off workers (the primary target group) will not enroll. The program attracted relatively young and inexperienced workers on indefinite or permanent layoff. The target group perceived no job-related benefits in such training, because in most industries worker advancement and promotional systems are negotiated through the collective bargaining process which ensures advancement on the basis of seniority. Employers response to the JAT concept was minimal as they could not perceive any area of self-interest. Findings suggest that application of such a program would be of potential benefit only in industries where internal labor market practices are not ridigly tied to a worker's seniority. (MF)
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC