What Value Do Employers Give to Qualifications?

Autor/inn/en	Ridoutt, Lee; Smith, Chris Selby; Hummel, Kevin; Cheang, Christina
Institution	National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia).
Titel	What Value Do Employers Give to Qualifications?
Quelle	(2005), (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	1-9208-9643-0
Schlagwörter	Employees; Employment Qualifications; Foreign Countries; Compliance (Legal); Recruitment; Business; Decision Making; Work Experience; Innovation; Small Businesses; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Employment qualification; Vocational qualification; Vocational qualifications; Berufliche Qualifikation; Ausland; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Business studies; Wirtschaft; Betriebswirtschaft; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Kleingewerbe; Australien
Abstract	This report is about employers and how they value and use qualifications in their business decisions. The research indicates clear differences in the value placed on and use made of qualifications by employers for different groups of workers and occupations. Qualifications are considered more important for higher-level occupations and employers use them predominantly to recruit new employees and to ensure regulatory compliance. Employers regard qualifications as a signal of potential for future learning and skills acquisition, not as a signal of immediate competence. Overall, employers drew a strong distinction between qualifications and experience, and favoured and valued the latter more in regard to many of their business decisions. The higher the level of enterprise change and innovation, the lower the level of value and use made of qualifications by employers. Also, small enterprises are more likely to be highly discriminating of qualifications and supporting development among their employees. (Contains 4 tables and 12 figures.) [For related support document, see ED495265.] (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10