Empowering the New Mobility Workforce

• Author : Tyler Reeb
• Publisher : Elsevier
• Release : 20 June 2019

Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape. Transportation employers will need to hire 4.6 million workers—1.2 times the current transportation workforce—in the next decade. The book explores how leaders in education, industry and government can work together to create an ecosystem that facilitates learning and upskilling for emerging and incumbent

• Author : Esra Ozdenerol
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 23 February 2021

Gender inequality is entrenched in the cultural, political, and market systems that operate at household, community, and national levels. Overarching global changes in access to markets, climatic conditions, and the availability of natural resources intensify disparities in income, assets, and power among genders. This book explains these gender dynamics at macro and micro levels through GIS and spatial analysis. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the current role of GIS in the context of gender inequalities, how it still exists globally

• Author : Lauri Scheyer
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 23 September 2021

Why do so many writers and audiences turn to theatre to resolve overwhelming topics of pain and suffering? This collection of essays from international scholars reconsiders how theatre has played a crucial part in encompassing and preserving significant human experiences. Plays about global issues, including terrorism and war, are increasing in attention from playwrights, scholars, critics and audiences. In this contemporary collection, a gathering of diverse contributors explain theatre's special ability to generate dialogue and promote healing when dealing with

• Author : Claire Bond Potter,Renee Christine Romano
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release : 23 March 2023

Explores the difficulties of writing histories of recent events, due to the lack of perspective, hindsight, and developed historiography.

• Author : OECD
• Publisher : OECD Publishing
• Release : 11 June 2021

This report, OECD Skills Strategy Lithuania: Assessment and Recommendations, identifies opportunities and makes recommendations for Lithuania to better equip young people with skills for work and life, raise adults’ and enterprises’ participation in learning, use people’s skills more effectively in workplaces, and strengthen the governance of skills policies.

• Author : Scott Lincicome
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 January 2023

Empowering the New American Worker identifies what Cato scholars believe to be the most important market-oriented policies for today's American worker, covering a broad array of issues including education, housing, remote work, health care, criminal justice, and licensing. Since at least 2016, policymakers on both the right and the left have lamented the plight of the American worker and promised to fix it. Unfortunately, the most common "pro-worker" policies today-heavy on government intervention in labor, trade, or other markets-suffer from critical

• Author : Vasiliu-Feltes, Ingrid
• Publisher : IGI Global
• Release : 13 May 2022

The impact of women’s empowerment on the Sustainable Development Goals is exponential, as their contributions are essential in all domains relevant to our society and economy. As a society, we are facing a moral imperative to redesign, reshape, and recalibrate our global approach towards women’s empowerment. A call to action and alternative pathways that can address some of the major challenges that fuel the global, social, and economic gender gap are required in order to further the empowerment

• Author : Deepa Narayan-Parker
• Publisher : World Bank Publications
• Release : 01 January 2005

Large-scale poverty reduction depends on the effective empowerment of poor people themselves. This publication sets out a conceptual framework that can be used to monitor and evaluate empowerment programmes, based on papers written by practitioners and researchers in a wide variety of fields, including economics and political science, sociology and psychology, anthropology and demography. These papers draw on research and practical experience at different levels, from households to communities to nations and in various regions of the world.

• Author : Charu Raheja, Ph.D.
• Publisher : Continuwell
• Release : 23 March 2023

Engagement is, in short, the connection employees feel to their employers. Engagement levels plummet when employees feel undervalued, mistreated, or dissatisfied at work. Increasing active engagement vastly improves employee loyalty and morale, and reduces turnover. This eBook examines in detail why employee engagement matters to employers and outlines steps employers can take to increase engagement, reduce turnover, and improve communication.

• Author : Marwa Shalaby,Valentine M. Moghadam
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 09 November 2016

With studies on the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Syria, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, this collection presents a theoretical framework on the study of women's empowerment amid the transformations that have shaped the social and political fabrics of Arab societies.

• Author : Katharine Christopherson,Audrey Yiadom,Juliet Johnson,Francisca Fernando,Hanan Yazid,Clara Thiemann
• Publisher : International Monetary Fund
• Release : 18 February 2022

It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries’ domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women’s economic participation, and removal of these impediments through legal reform has been shown to be an effective method to catalyze greater participation of women in the economy—along with the related macroeconomic benefits. Once legal barriers

• Author : Institute of Medicine,Board on Global Health,Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety,Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education
• Publisher : National Academies Press
• Release : 23 June 2015

In September 2014, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety of the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop on empowering women and strengthening health systems and services through investing in nursing and midwifery enterprise. Experts in women's empowerment, development, health systems' capacity building, social enterprise and finance, and nursing and midwifery explored the intersections between and among these domains. Innovative and promising models for more sustainable health care

• Author : Rakesh Patel
• Publisher : Partridge Publishing
• Release : 24 September 2014

Do you know that organizations and IT departments scramble to devise a good strategy for enterprise mobility? Surprisingly, only half of them have well-defined mobile strategies, confirms a recent survey of over six hundred companies by IBM. Now this is where a handbook for enterprise mobility can be instrumental for CIOs, CTOs, and IT decision-makers who look for creating robust enterprise mobile strategies and solutions. This book shares some of the practical cases related with enterprise mobility, which will be

• Author : Sian Griffiths,David J Hunter
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 22 November 2017

The General Practice Jigsaw provides comprehensive and up-to-date information on the future of education training and professional development in general practice and primary care. It is an anthology of work produced by many of the leading figures in general practice across the United Kingdom. General practice now faces challenges that could be seen as threatening the way it traditionally operates but can also be seen as presenting opportunities. This book provides inspiration and guidance to its readers and fuel for

• Author : OECD
• Publisher : OECD Publishing
• Release : 12 July 2019

The 2019 edition of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development looks at countries’ efforts to meet this challenge and identifies opportunities for accelerating progress. The third in a series, it shows how integrated and coherent policies, supported by strong institutional and governance mechanisms, can contribute to empowering people and ensuring inclusiveness and equality.