Dissertations / Theses: 'Employment opportunities'

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Woodhams, Carol Anne Cruttenden. "Disability, equality and employment - on whose terms?" Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.284865.

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Driscole, Robert E. "Employment opportunities and skills necessary for entry-level employment in the timber industry." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2004. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3304.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2004.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 35 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 21).

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Tran, Thi Minh Thu. "Employment Opportunities for Adolescents with Autism - A Vietnamese Case." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för socialt arbete, SA, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-13463.

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Baird, Jim. "Black Employment Opportunities: The Role of Immigrant Job Concentrations." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/sociology_theses/6.

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Recent, post-1980, immigration patterns have had a dramatic effect on U.S. labor markets, leading to considerable debate about the impact of immigration on native-born black workers. This research examines immigrant and black labor markets, across metropolitan areas, using Public Use Microdata and Summary File data from Census 2000 to generate low, mid, and high classifications of immigrant and black occupations based on socio-economic index (SEI). Multivariate findings indicate that the effect of recent immigration on black labor market outcomes differs by occupational level. Competition for low-skilled jobs is identified for native-born blacks in low-level jobs while a “bump-up” effect is identified for blacks in mid-level jobs. For example, production occupations with low language and skill requirements are shown to be contested among the groups. On the other hand, service and administrative functions emerge as bump-up mechanisms that create opportunity for black workers who amass the human capital required of these occupations. Thus, the ramifications of immigration for native-born blacks are shown to be quite different for low- and mid-SEI jobs.

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Lam, Alice. "Equal employment opportunities for Japanese women : changing company practice." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1990. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/126/.

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The central aim of this thesis is to examine the extent to which the growing pressures for equal opportunity between the sexes has forced Japanese companies to adapt and modify their employment and personnel management practices in recent years. It analyses the major social and economic factors prompting Japanese companies to adopt more open employment policies towards women since the mid-1970s and the change programmes introduced by management. The thesis especially looks at how companies have reacted to the 1985 Equal Employment Opportunity Law and in the light of this considers how far the present legislation will bring about fundamental changes in the Japanese employment system towards more egalitarian treatment of women workers. A detailed case study was conducted at Seibu Department Stores Ltd., both before and after the introduction of the EEO Law, as a critical test of the possibility of introducing equal opportunities for women in a large Japanese company. Seibu was chosen because it is a big employer of women and is a company operating in an industry which has strong economic and- commercial incentives to offer women better career opportunities. All the more important, Seibu is regarded as a 'leading edge' company in personnel management reforms. The study reveals that despite many economic and social reasons that were in favour of change towards greater sexual equality in Seibu, and especially after the introduction of the EEO Law, change towards more egalitarian treatment of women has been very limited. This study illustrates the depth of the resistance to change in the core employment practices in large Japanese companies. The present EEO Law has little potential for undermining the structural mechanisms which perpetúate sexual job segregation in the employment system. The final part of the thesis speculates on the future prospects of introducing equal opportunities for women in Japanese companies. In the light of the present socio-legal constraints, the author puts forward a number of practical policy suggestions for engendering more pervasive long-term changes towards equal employment for Japanese women.

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Alghamedi, Ahmad. "Enhancing employment opportunities in the Saudi Arabian private sector." Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10250406.

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The history of unemployment in Saudi Arabia has been a decades-long struggle, and is considered among the biggest challenges facing the Saudi Arabian government. The youth and women, unfortunately, have been the most affected groups of the high unemployment rate in Saudi Arabia. In an effort to decrease the number of unemployed, the government of Saudi Arabia introduced the Saudization program in an attempt to create jobs for Saudi job seekers. The Saudization policy was created by the government and implemented through the Ministry of Labor. The main objective of this program was to maximize efforts in decreasing labor opportunities for foreign workers, while increasing the number of opportunities for Saudis in the private sector. However, the Saudization policy was not as successful as had been anticipated. Therefore, new efforts to alter the policy were rolled out under the Nitaqat scheme in the year 2011. Despite the government’s efforts to improve the employment situation in Saudi Arabia, research indicates that progress to reduce unemployment levels during the past 5 years since Nitaqat was implemented by the Ministry of Labor have been minimal. The main purpose of this research paper was to investigate and draw practical solutions to the unemployment challenges facing Saudi Arabia. This study was based on quantitative method using 2 online surveys: (a) Ministry of Labor employees, and (b) Saudi business owners. The most important findings for this study were a need of reforming the employment policy, changing the education system, and implement and/ or edit policy to create middle-class jobs. Additionally, the study found that there was a mismatch between the market needs and educational outcomes. The study also recommended the need for creating more jobs for women. Last, the study findings called for increasing the cooperation between the private sector and Ministry of Labor to create a more effective employment policy that will generate jobs for the Saudi job seekers.

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Rosenblum, Amy. "The Influence of Employment Status and Sex on Job Opportunities." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1544513.

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Millions of Americans are unemployed, looking for work, and hoping to secure job interviews. A job applicant's employment status and sex have the potential to influence hiring managers' judgments as to who is interviewed and, ultimately, hired. In this study, participants reviewed and evaluated fictitious job applicants' resumes. Six resumes which portrayed various combinations of applicant employment status (currently employed, short-term unemployed, long-term unemployed) and sex were developed. However, each participant was only asked to review one resume. Despite the resumes depicting different employment conditions, all of the job applicants had equivalent work experience relevant to the job for which they were applying. Results indicated that employment status and sex did not affect whether applicants were seen as possessing characteristics often associated with the unemployed. However, employment status and sex had a significant interaction when it came to hiring decisions. When making hiring decisions, long-term unemployed females were rated significantly less favorably than employed females, short-term unemployed females, and long-term unemployed males. The data suggest that the effects of unemployment may differ for males and females, and these factors may affect job opportunities. To hire the best employees, hiring managers need to be aware of their biases when making interview and hiring decisions because the factors on a resume can work together to impact these decisions.

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Broomhall, David E. "The influence of perceived employment opportunities on educational performance in Appalachia." Diss., This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08062007-094402/.

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Duckworth, Stephen Charles. "Disability and equality in employment : the imperative for a new approach." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295608.

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McNickle, Cathy, and n/a. "Enhanced access for re-entry into education, training is is seen to enable women to achieve self-fulfilment and to enhance employment opportunities." University of Canberra. Education, 1994. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061013.143535.

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The study topic undertaken was "Enhanced access for re-entry into education, training is seen to enable women to achieve self-fulfilment and enhance employment opportunities". Thesis Proposition and Study Problem : The topic was undertaken to study groups of women during different stages of education, training to see whether they did achieve self-fulfilment and had better employment opportunities if they did have enhanced access for re-entry into education, training. The study briefly looks at the progress by women chronologically, from the late nineteenth century until today, noting the major changes that have given greater gender eguity within the workplace. Methodology : The study focused on four different case studies; each case study focusing on different women who were at different stages of education, training. The study ensured it also focused on women who had gone into nontraditional roles to gain a greater insight as a result of women being given greater access, whether it has played a role in women having the opportunity to gain greater career opportunities and self-fulfilment as a result. Results : Some of the key results were that if women were given the opportunities of education, training that they were able to achieve self-fulfilment and their employment opportunities were enhanced. It was also evident that women were increasing in numbers to study at university. There were a number of inequalities noted still, although there have been a number of changes in recent times. These changes were also noted, as well as the barriers that are still evident. The study identifies different areas within education/employment whereby there are barriers and inequalities. The changes in training/legislation are also noted. Conclusions : The study is concluded by compiling the results of the four case studies and presenting these as well as other evidence from a variety of sources clarifying the investigation that "Enhanced access for re-entry into education, training is seen to enable women to achieve self-fulfilment and enhance employment opportunities".

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Gregory, Jeanne. "Discrimination, employment and the law : a study of judicial and administrative procedures with special reference to the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.294282.

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Norouzi, Ghasem. "Employment opportunities for adults with the label of 'learning difficulties' in England." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2006. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3586/.

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This study considered employment opportunities and realities of work for adults with learning difficulties in England (post the 2001, White Paper Valuing People) with the view to developing opportunities for people in Iran. An eclectic approach, using both qualitative and quantitative methods was adopted. Thus I studied the lives of six workers with learning difficulties and considered the case files of a further 200 similar employees in the English city of Northtown in order to develop an understanding of their employment experiences and to gain insight into the perceptions of their employers in mainstream workplaces. Twenty one employers completed a survey questionnaire and 12 were interviewed. I also investigated how supported employment providers (SEPs) promote `meaningful work' opportunities for people with learning difficulties. The research findings helped me to formulate policy recommendations and applications for Iran. The social model of learning difficulties was the main stance of this research. The research showed that people with learning difficulties were excluded from many aspects of life particularly employment, due to the social, cultural, political and structural barriers within society. All the SEPs and most employers perceived employees with learning difficulties as capable, punctual, reliable, willing, hard-working very helpful and trustworthy workers. This study highlighted that the current supported employment programme, despite supporting employees with learning difficulties at work and increasing the employers' awareness of their ability was not successful in enabling people in gaining meaningful work. The Workstep programme, however, did appear to help people with learning difficulties to get paid jobs. This thesis recommends further reflexive empirical research regarding the employment of people with learning difficulties both in England and in Iran.

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Tomkoria, Amita. "Parallel networks and opportunities for women directors." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/589.

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Karagianni-Karagiannopoulou, Evangelia. "A comparison of the long-term effects of parental divorce on the possible selves of Greek and English young adults." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10006608/.

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Chaus, Oleksandr. "Artificial intelligence and robotics." Thesis, Дніпровський національний університет залізничного транспорту імені академіка В. Лазаряна, 2019. https://er.knutd.edu.ua/handle/123456789/14698.

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The work deals with artificial intelligence as one of the most exciting field in robotics. AI has penetrated almost every industry, from construction, transport and manufacturing to business intelligence, education and healthcare.
Робота стосується штучного інтелекту як однієї з найбільш захоплюючих галузей робототехніки. Штучний інтелект проник майже в усі галузі, від будівництва, транспорту та виробництва до бізнес-розвідки, освіти та охорони здоров'я.
Работа посвящена искусственному интеллекту как одной из самых захватывающих областей робототехники. Искусственный интеллект проник почти во все отрасли, от строительства, транспорта и производства до бизнес-аналитики, образования и здравоохранения.

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Uken, Ernst-August. "Employment opportunities in the South African hotel industry with special reference to tourism." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/16346.

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Bibliography: pages 111-113.
The continued growth of the South African tourist industry was assumed and projections up to year 2020 were made to establish the corresponding growth in employment opportunities in the hotel industry. Overseas tourism is sensitive to and dependent on many factors. These were identified and the performance over the past two decades for bona fide overseas visitors, excluding mere border crossings, were extrapolated, accepting that oscillations about the suggested trend line will become greater in the future. In order to predict the growth of domestic tourism, cognisance had to be taken of the demographic development of the various population groups. The distribution of wealth among the various groups was estimated in the short, medium and long terms. On it depends the choice of accommodation when going on holiday. An evaluation was made of the employment pattern in the South African hotel industry. Published data from the Central Statistical Services and the Bureau of Financial Analysis (BFA) of the University of Pretoria were used. The 1982 Manpower Survey of the BFA proved particularly useful in establishing the present distribution of skilled staff in the industry by hotel grading and by geographical area. Performance ratios were calculated relative to capital invested and to revenue earned. The lowest staff to room ratios were used as criterion for optimal and most efficient usage of staff. The model thus developed with the aid of the Hewlett Packard STATP computer program, was based on actual present performance of a certain category of hotels. Unlike other approaches reported in the literature, a clear distinction was here made between skilled and unskilled labour. This distinction is considered to be of prime importance to any developing country where a shortage of skilled staff generally prevails, in contrast to a vast supply of untrained labour.

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Rae, Mary Nichols. "DISABILITY AND RESTRICTION OF OPPORTUNITIES IN THE WORKPLACE: DATA FROM THE NATIONAL HEALTH INTERVIEW SURVEY (NHIS)." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2000. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ucin971880292.

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Koech, Christopher Arap. "Factors inhibiting equalization of opportunities towards persons with physical disabilities in Uasin-Gishu County, Kenya." University of the Western Cape, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5075.

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Magister Artium - MA
Background: Persons with physical disabilities experience unfavorable conditions in health care, education, employment infrastructure and recreational facilities. Persons with physical disabilities have encountered challenges in accessing health services, accessing the inbuilt environment. Likewise they have also faced economic exclusion, religious exclusion and social/moral exclusion. Laws have been enacted globally, in Africa and in Kenya and the latest universal law being the United Nations Convention on Rights of Person with Disabilities. Aim of the study: To determine factors inhibiting equalization of opportunities with regards to the services in health, education, employment and to explore the factors inhibiting equalization of opportunities with regards to infrastructure and recreational facilities, to persons with physical disability in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya. Study area: Research was conducted at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and APDK Mobile Outreach Centers for Persons with disability. Research Design: Mixed method approach (concurrent) was used where the researcher integrated information at the final interpretation of the results. The study was done in quantitative and qualitative phases. Research Instruments: A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. The questionnaire that was in four sections was administered to 375 participants and it sought to determine the factors inhibiting equalization of opportunities to persons with physical disabilities with regards to health, education and employment. The reliability and validity of the research instrument was tested before use. Six focus group discussions using the nomination rule was conducted and it comprised of 6-8 participants. Structured interviews with four key informants were also held to explore the factors inhibiting equalization of opportunities to persons with physical disabilities in recreational facilities and infrastructure in Uasin Gishu County Kenya. Data analysis: Version 22 of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to pinpoint the quantitative data. Descriptive statistics was used and the findings were presented in the form of frequencies and percentages. To test the relationship between the different categories of variables inferential statistics (chi-square) was used, (p<0.05). For the qualitative data, the tape recorded interviews were transcribed verbatim, field notes typed, categorizing and ordering data was done and themes were produced. To obtain themes thematic content analysis was used. Ethics: The participants were made aware of the aim of the study, confidentiality and their freedom to withdraw from the study. Approval was obtained from the University of the Western Cape Senate Research Grants and Study Leave Committee before the study commenced. Ethical clearance was also obtained from the Institutional Research and Ethics Committee of MTRH and Moi University. Informed approval was also obtained before the survey and the FGD. Results: There were statistially significant relationship between nature of disability and workplace policies (p=0.001) to employment, distance from residence (p=0.001) to health facility and attitude of health workers on access to health. There was also a significant relationship between school policies (p=0.001) and help from family members (p=0.001) in access to education. The emerging themes in the FGD were the presence of sidewalks, zebra crossing, car parks, traffic control lights, benches and rest areas, transport adaptation, building adaptation, toilets and ramps/ lifts. The discussions in the emerging themes in the FGDs showed that persons with physical disabilities are yet to fully access infrastructure and recreational facilities. Conclusion: These results therefore showed that PWDs are yet to attain equalization of opportunities with regards to health, employment, education and recreation compared to their non-disabled counterparts and is therefore recommended that the legislations/policies in place be fully implemented in line with UN convention 2006 and persons with disabilities Act 2003 (Kenya).

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Durr, Angel Krystina. "A Text Analysis of Data Science Career Opportunities and U.S. iSchool Curriculum." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1404565/.

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Data science employment opportunities of varied complexity and environment are in growing demand across the globe. Data science as a discipline potentially offers a wealth of jobs to prospective employees, while traditional information science-based roles continue to decrease as budgets get cut across the U.S. Since data is related closely to information historically, this research will explore the education of U.S. iSchool professionals and compare it to traditional data science roles being advertised within the job market. Through a combination of latent semantic analysis of over 1600 job postings and iSchool course documentation, it is our aim to explore the intersection of library and information science and data science. Hopefully these research findings will guide future directions for library and information science professionals into data science driven roles, while also examining and highlighting the data science techniques currently driven by the education of iSchool professionals. In addition, it is our aim to understand how data science could benefit from a mutually symbiotic relationship with the field of information science as statistically data scientists spend far too much time working on data preparation and not nearly enough time conducting scientific inquiry. The results of this examination will potentially guide future directions of iSchool students and professionals towards more cooperative data science roles and guide future research into the intersection between iSchools and data science and possibilities for partnership.

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You, Winnie. "Does Patriarchy Still Exist? An Examination of Equal Employment Opportunities in the United States." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/643.

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Since the 1970s, major changes in reproductive freedom, education, and the passage of equal employment laws have impacted women’s experience in the workplace. My thesis is a US-based study that examines the progress of women’s equal employment opportunities from the 1970s to today. Chapter 1 provides the context of discrimination in the 1970s. Chapter 2 provides detailed literature reviews on reproductive freedom and education separately. Section 2.1 shows the relationship between reproductive freedom and increased labor force participation. Section 2.2 finds that higher levels of education encourage women to seek employment in traditionally male-dominant positions. Section 2.3 adds alternative explanations to women’s increased labor force participation rate, such as the aftermath of WWII and changing social attitudes. Chapter 3 gives an overview of women in management in the United States. Section 3.1 examines the history of equal employment laws and how they are subsequently enforced. Chapter 3.2 explains why women in the United States today are still victims of the glass ceiling. Chapter 3.3 compares the status of women in higher management as well as policy trends (maternity leave, childcare subsidization) between the United States and other countries. Chapter 3 draws models from other countries and shows how female management in developed Asian countries successfully included women in top management over time. Chapter 4 is the conclusion of my thesis. Section 4.1 concludes that the United States has a long way to go to achieve truly equal employment opportunities. Section 4.2 provides suggestions and directions for future research.

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Mayville, Erik Andrew. "The utilization of value self-confrontation in increasing employment opportunities for the mentally ill." Scholarly Commons, 1997. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/2702.

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While research has been conducted concerning the general public's attitudes toward mental illness, no work has been done specifically with the business community. I tested an intervention designed to increase the likelihood of the hiring of the mentally ill by San Joaquin Valley business community members. A pretest-posttest-control group design was used in which the treatment group received a presentation based on Rokeach's Value Self-Confrontation method. As hypothesized, the treatment group changed its values toward greater acceptance of mental illness. However, results of a test designed to measure likelihood of hiring the mentally ill revealed that the treatment group felt no differently about hiring persons with a mental illness than they did before the intervention. In addition, these results did not differ significantly from those of a control group that was not exposed to the self-confrontation method.

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Price, Anne M. "Constraints and Opportunities: The Shaping of Attitudes Towards Women‘s Employment in the Middle East." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1307403090.

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McVittie, Christopher D. "The 'age' of diversity and equal opportunities in employment : new discrimination against older workers?" Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/23116.

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There exists a considerable body of evidence to suggest that older workers are increasingly being excluded from the workplace in the UK and elsewhere. Commonly, such exclusions are viewed as being due, at least in part, to the use of discriminatory practices by employers towards older workers and jobseekers. Many previous writers have sought to explain age discrimination in employment as the result of the cognitive biases of individual employers (e.g. Warr & Pennington, 1993) or as the outcome of inequitable social structures which favour younger workers over older workers (e.g. Phillipson, 1982). Recent measures promoted by the UK Government to address age discrimination in the workplace (DfEE, 1999) have accordingly rested on the promotion to employers of the principles of diversity and equal opportunities in employment. Drawing on work which has examined the explanatory power of age itself (Bodily, 1991; 1994) and on recent work within discursive psychology, I argue in this Thesis that age diversity and equal opportunities in employment can be usefully understood as discursive resources available to and used by participants within everyday social interaction. Adopting such a perspective allows discrimination against older workers to be viewed as ongoing social practice. Here, I analyse data obtained from written equal opportunities policies of employers, from focus groups and from interviews conducted with employers and older jobseekers. Employers, while making claims which appear to be inclusive of workers in general and older workers in particular, describe their workforce and recruitment practices within reference to the numbers of older workers employed. When challenged, they account for the apparent marginalisation of older workers within their organisations in terms of factors outwith their control and in ways which make such practices less visible and less open to public scrutiny.

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Dimkpa, Princewill, and Collins Dimkpa. "Obstacles and Opportunities Foreign Graduates Meet In Dalarna Labour Market, Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Företagsekonomi, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-14027.

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Foreign graduates have been part of the success stories of many developed countries. This is as a result of their immeasurable deposit of ideas, knowledge, and innovation in the host country. Though the process of these foreign graduates penetrating and integrating into the labour market of the host country could be slow and rough as they encounter some obstacles on the way; they still strive to break through and be part of the country’s workforce because they foresee some opportunities therein. This research study is about the obstacles and opportunities foreign graduates meet in Dalarna labour market. The study investigated and identified the obstacles and opportunities foreign graduates meet in Dalarna labour market. For a thorough execution of this research, we collected primary data by handing questionnaires to 65 foreign graduates searching for jobs in Dalarna region and interviewed eight people, among which seven were foreign graduates and one of them was a staff at Arbestförmedlingen (Employment Agency) to give us a general view of the Dalarna labour market. We read previous research works and related articles to understand the topic in order to get an overview of the terminologies and concept to apply. This study concluded that language is a major obstacle foreign graduates meet in the Dalarna labour market. Other possible obstacles include culture, poor integration policies, lack of a placement bureau, lack of trust, limited opportunities, favoritism, lack of jobs, lack of references and experience. On the other hand factors like job availability, outgoing labour force and unskilled labour are possible opportunities foreign graduates meet in the Dalarna labour market. Furthermore flexible work time, good working atmosphere, experience, social security/welfare, good standard of living, family friendly region, higher wages, job security and cheap cost of living are also possible benefits that foreign graduates get in Dalarna.

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Cheng, Chan Oi-lin Mary, and 鄭陳愛蓮. "An assessment of government's role in the promotion of employment opportunities for disabled persons in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975276.

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Yau, Kin-man Angela, and 游健敏. "Changes in educational and working opportunities for women of China and Japan." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31953335.

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Allsopp, Anne. "The education and employment of girls in Luton 1874-1924 : widening opportunities and lost freedoms." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2001. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10020376/.

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Guillory, Tierra. "Determining the Influence of Business Ethics on Hiring Practices, Compensation Packages, and Equal Employment Opportunities." Thesis, California Southern University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10284348.

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In Nevada, 300 Big-box store employees had distinct opinions regarding hiring practices, compensation, and equal employment opportunities. This study focused on the examination of the role of business ethics, an integral part of the business environment, as it pertains to hiring practices, compensation, and equal employment opportunities. The study examined how people within an organization use and practice business ethics in hiring and promotion decisions through the use of a mixed methods study. The study was conducted using a survey defined through a 7 point Likert scale to understand the respondent’s perceptions and experiences on ethical practices of the organization in hiring, compensation, and equal employment opportunities. Statistical analysis was used to analyze the data. The results demonstrate that there are distinct relationships between business ethics and business operations, suggesting that organizations should develop ethical practices and monitor ethical behavior to assure ethical practices, compensation, and equal employment opportunities. Furthermore, the results suggest that employee satisfaction is increased with improved business ethic practices. Therefore, it can be deduced that increased employee satisfaction can increase productivity, which can increase profit due to lower expenses incurred by the organization. This study may contribute to social change by demonstrating that business ethics is crucial and beneficial to the success of all organizations in a variety of ways, including employee morale.

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Giwu, Pumeza. "Evaluation of employment opportunities for people with disabilities in Joe Gqabi District of the Eastern Cape." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1016224.

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Even though the post-apartheid democratic government introduced a “social model” approach to address disability, there is still low employment rate of People with Disabilities. Government has enacted different legislation aimed at the inclusion of people with disabilities into the mainstream of society; however, the majority of people with disabilities are unemployed and often denied employment opportunities. The study seeks to evaluate employment of people with disabilities, identify challenges facing the government departments and local municipalities in employing people with disabilities, and to determine what measures can be taken to improve the employment of this group. A purposive sampling was used to select the government departments and the municipalities. A total of seven organisations, participated in the study consisting of four government departments and three local municipalities of the Joe Gabi District. During the interviews, a semi-structured interview guide was used to generate in-depth interpretation from the participants. The data was then analysed using quantitative methods such as graphs and tables and qualitative methods such as data coding through Tech's (1990) framework as described in (Creswell, 2003). The findings of the research revealed that government departments and municipalities still experience challenges in recruiting and providing employment opportunities to people with disabilities. There are a number of factors perceived by participants as challenges to low recruitment and employment of people with disabilities. These include: A lack of clear internal policies and guidelines at district levels of the government departments; Tendency by the government departments and municipalities to use the Employment Equity Plans only as a tool for compliance with legislation; A lack of effective recruitment strategies especially for people with disabilities. The participants also suggested a number of ways to improve employment and recruitment of people with disabilities, which include partnering with relevant organisations that could help in providing work-seekers who are persons with disability, developing effective internal recruitment strategies, HR managers to be trained in disability management and all relevant legislation and finally departments to fund posts specifically for people with disabilities.

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Das, Smita. "Socio-Economic Opportunities and Deprivation Outcomes: Inter-Group Differences in Poverty, Employment and Migration in India." Thesis, Ulster University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490301.

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The nature and extent of poverty in India is well documented. However, in spite of it being increasingly recognised that deprivation is a multidimensional phenomenon and could be related to the prevailing social relations, most studies in India have explored only its economic dimension adopting the traditional income poverty line approach. The present research tries to broaden the framework of poverty analysis first by adopting a multi-dimensional view of poverty and secondly by relating poverty to India's socio-religious structure, with particular emphasis on the role of discrimination on socio-religious grounds. Thus, the major objective of the study is to explain the persistence of poverty among specific population groups in India in the light of the country's socio-religious structure by examining and quantifying the role of discrimination. The findings of the study reveal that the level of deprivation faced by individuals is greatly influenced by both their religious persuasion and caste denomination. As a result, there exist. wide disparities even within the same caste or religious group. The Scheduled Tribes (STs), Scheduled Castes (SCs) and Muslims are found to be the most deprived communities. Although considerable discrimination occurs against the extremely deprived STs and SCs, generally speaking higher poverty of these socio-religious groups is more an outcome of their poor attributes (lack of education, in particular). In fact, there appears to be no explicit discrimination against STs and SCs in the labour market, even though there is some evidence of discrimination against the Muslims. These groups also fail to benefit from migration due to their poor physical and human capital. On the whole, pulling these groups out of their current state of deprivation will primarily require improving their attributes, especially education. At the same time, it is also important to rid the society from prejudices against particular social groups.

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Markkanen, Sanna Marika. "Integration or discrimination: opportunities and barriers to appropriate paid employment for healthcare professional refugees in Finland." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.484909.

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This thesis looks at the opportunities and barriers to appropriate employment for healthcare professional refugees in Finland. Moving beyond a simplistic dichotomy between employment and unemployment, this study seeks to identify the factors that , may inhibit, or potentially enhance, healthcare professional refugees' ability. to reestablish their careers in Finland. This research is built' on a notion that a strategy enabling more effective integration of healthcare professional refugees'skills into the Finnish workforcecould benefit both refugees and Finnish society. Previous research suggests that a profession is often the main axi~ of highly educated refugees' ,identity, and being forced to abandon one's profession thus means a loss of identity as well as a loss of income and social statils. Although paid labour market participation is now widely recognised as one of the main factors _,hat facilitate , successful resettlement and social integration, the requirements set by the Finnish authorities make formal recognition ofoverseas qualifications difficult to achieve. In the case of refugees, this problem is exacerbated by the 'victimisation' of refugees and integration practices that do not meet the needs of highly educated refugees. Approaching the topic'from a constructivist standpoint, this thesis focuses on healthcare professional refugees' personal accounts of their experiences. In addition to 13 interviews with healthcare professional refugees, 10 interviews were conducted with key respondents from relevant professional associations and the institutional sector. The findings suggest that healthcare professional refugees' skills remain largely underutilised. An examination of the effects of different inhibiting and enhancing factors on healthcare professional refugees' career prospects in Finland indicates that the positive effects ofthe enhancing factors are effectively outweighed by the inhibiting factors. While an established qualification recognition procedure makes it possible for refugee doctors to obtain official recognition for their overseas qualifications, the training that is intended to prepare them for the examinations is inadequate. _In the absence of a suitable qualification recognition-procedure, refugee nurses are commonly advised to forget their aspirations of returning to nursing, and encouraged to fe-educate themselves for the loweer)-paid pr~fession ofa healthcare assistant.

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He, Annette. "Response to Technological Innovation: The Impact of STEM Graduates on Employment Opportunities in Accounting Services Firms." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1146.

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What is the effect of STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) degrees on employment in accounting services? Many accounting firms are beginning to rely on recent technological developments such as big data and Artificial Intelligence. Although firms have traditionally hired professionals from pure accounting backgrounds, technology is creating a new demand for skills focusing on data analytics, computer science, statistics, and many more. This thesis analyzes the impact of increasing employment diversity; one way of maximizing the potential of technological innovation is to focus recruiting on STEM graduates. Thus, this thesis uses an empirical analysis on the effect of STEM degrees and accounting services employment; this relationship is compared with variables that have had or will affect accounting services employment in the twenty-first century: Sarbanes Oxley regulations, accounting degrees, public research and development funding, and unemployment rates. The conclusions from this analysis help suggest future educational implications for accountants.

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Iganski, Paul. "Implementing equal employment-opportunities policies in the British National Health Service : racism and patriarchy at work." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1993. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1295/.

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An analysis is presented of the implementation of equal employment-opportunities policies in the British National Health Service (NHS). It focuses on policy development at national level for the NHS as a whole, and also at local level in a case-study of two District Health Authorities. The material was collected from interviews with over sixty respondents. At national level they included key actors in the policy process. Data from a mail survey of all Health Authorities and Boards in the NHS - undertaken for the thesis - is used to additionally evaluate policy progress at national level. The analysis focuses on the organisation and stimulae behind policy implementation at national level. At local level, interviews were held with personnel specialists responsible for the formulation of policy, and line-managers responsible for policy implementation. The analysis focuses particularly on equal opportunities monitoring, formalisation of the selection process for employment, and positive action measures. The analysis uses concepts of racism and patriarchy to theoretically structure a variety of disparate processes which deny equality of opportunity at work. It also suggests targets and strategies for policy implementation.

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Lisk, D. R. "Equal opportunities for women in construction trades : issues of education, training and employment in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.679039.

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This study seeks to identify the factors that influence young women to take up a career in the construction trades in Northern Ireland and to gain a better understanding of the perceptions that lead them to decide on a career in construction. The study focuses on the views, perceptions, understandings and experiences of young people and utilises a mixed methods approach, consisting of a large scale quantitative study of 14-16 year olds along with follow up qualitative interviews with young women and other key stakeholders in the construction industry. Within the context of this study, Roberts' notion of opportunity structures is used, and extended with Bourdieu's concepts of 'habitus' and 'field', as a way of exploring how young women have come to internalise taken-for-granted ways of thinking about occupations that reflect their wider experiences and relationships at home, school and in the world of work. The study found that the young women's attitudes and perspectives were influenced by the family and their peers. The study also identifies entrenched attitudes, where girls are discouraged, prevented and inhibited from accessing opportunities to explore particular career choices by careers officers and teachers. The study highlights how women on construction sites might be undermined but also highlights that young women are confident in their own abilities. This study is one of the first to consider a range of construction craft career choices for women to contemplate. The implications of this study include the need for schools and colleges to provide equality of opportunity for girls to participate in careers talks and vocational sampling programmes. It is suggested that sector bodies must also seek to promote and support women in construction apprenticeship programmes and that construction sector employers must implement improved monitoring and support mechanisms for female workers.

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Tlatlik, Rebecca [Verfasser]. "Place-related factors, employment opportunities and international students’ migration intention : Evidence from Göttingen, Germany / Rebecca Tlatlik." Kassel : Kassel University Press, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1119904455/34.

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Cheng, Chan Oi-lin Mary. "An assessment of government's role in the promotion of employment opportunities for disabled persons in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1988. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31975276.

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Hinton, Susan E., and Susan Mayson@BusEco monash edu au. "Organisational contestation over the discursive construction of equal employment opportunities for women in three Victorian public authorities." Swinburne University of Technology, 1999. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20051102.140031.

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The central arguments in this thesis rest on two premises. Firstly language and context are intimately bound up in the social construction of workplace gender inequalities. Secondly, organisational understandings and management of women�s access to employment opportunities and rewards in modern bureaucratic organisations are constituted through discourses or systems of organisational knowledges, practices and rules of organising. This study uses the concept of discourse to account for the productive and powerful role of knowledge and language practices in constituting the organisational contexts and meanings through which people make sense of and experience complex organisations.

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Mwakyembe, Edwin Richard 1976. "An analysis of youths employment opportunities In Tanzania = Análise das oportunidades de empregos dos jovens na Tanzânia." [s.n.], 2012. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/286113.

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Orientador: Eugenia Troncoso Leone
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia
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Resumo: Escrever sobre a Juventude, especialmente na área de emprego, tornou-se um grande fenômeno para os acadêmicos e os formuladores de políticas; nesse trabalho é estudada a dinâmica das oportunidades de trabalho destinada à Juventude dentro do contexto econômico existente na Tanzânia. O país foi selecionado não só pelo conhecimento do autor, mas também por causa das mudanças econômicas que vem ocorrendo e da privilegiada dinâmica das oportunidades de trabalho para os jovens que mudou negativamente de acordo com o modelo econômico atual do país. Apesar da informação dada, esse trabalho passa por características demográficas, macroeconômicas e legais que dizem respeito dos aspectos relevantes para as Oportunidades de Emprego para a Juventude, a pesquisa se aprofunda na análise das conclusões que são diretamente usadas como base para os argumentos da questão que norteia esse trabalho. O assunto não diz respeito diretamente da situação atual do emprego para os jovens, mas sim faz um retrato das tendências e interações das oportunidades de emprego dentro da conjuntura econômica atual, para mostrar as mudanças que ocorreram com as Oportunidades de Emprego para a Juventude em relação com a atuação econômica, fazendo uma conexão com a posição da agenda do trabalho decente e o emprego dos jovens na Tanzânia, se é possível qualificar o trabalho dos jovens como decente, a questão da solução criada pela economia da Tanzânia para gerar mais oportunidades de emprego aos jovens, e ainda como se estende as mudanças que ocorreram nas oportunidades de trabalho aos jovens para a economia como um todo. A conclusão mostra que ocorreram questões significativas para a mudança da economia e da oportunidade de emprego para os jovens na Tanzânia, basicamente pelo foco dado pelo Governo nas intervenções que visavam a geração de investimento que podem levar a uma situação de pleno emprego e transformação social assim como uma melhora no bem-estar econômico do país
Abstract: Writing on Youth especially to the areas of employment become greater phenomena to the scholars and policy makers; in this work the dynamics of Youth employment opportunities were studied in respect to existing contexts of the economy in Tanzania. The country been selected not only based on the knowledge of the writer but also because of the ongoing economic changes and the prevailed dynamics on the Youth employment opportunities which changed negatively as today's model of economy in the country. Despite the stated information this work went through the demographic features, macro economics and legal aspects relevant for Youth Employments Opportunities that suites the case, it went further on the analysis of the findings which directly used as a basis for arguments on the answering research question that guide this work and the objective of the in general. The subject was not concerned straight to depict unemployment status of the Youth, but to portray the trends and interplay behaviour of employment opportunities pertained to the existing an economy. To see the changes happened to Youth Employment Opportunities in respects to an economic performance, in connections to the case, what was a position of decent work agenda to the existed Youth employment in Tanzania? Does the Youth Job qualified to be called decent, the question of mode of economy adopted by Tanzania a solution for Youth employment opportunities creation, and to what extent the changes has been occurred in Tanzania Youth employment opportunities to fit an existing economy. The conclusion drawn aim at showing significant issues happened toward changes of the economy and youth employment opportunities in Tanzania, recommendations presented were generally to improve Youth employment opportunities, but mainly focus was request of the Government interventions to an investment creation that can creates full employment and transform social as well as economic well being of Tanzanian
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Llácer, Ventura Graciela, and Juste Svazaite. "Employment in Sweden from the international students’ perspective." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Företagsekonomi, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-27761.

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Every 30 th person on earth is living outside her/his home country. People migrate for different reasons, one of them being studies. Those who leave their home countries to pursue studies abroad are referred as international students. International students might be valuable for their host country if they decide to stay there after their studies. Their skills, international experience and experience of the host country might result very useful in filling the gaps in the host country’s l abour market. Therefore, this study aims to understand international student’s perspectives on post-graduation employment to Sweden. To fulfil the aim, qualitative inductive approach was followed so the interviewees were not influenced by predetermined questions. Ten in-depth, unstructured interviews with international students at a Swedish university were conducted. Interviews were analysed using the method of qualitative content analysis, following three research questions which lead to five themes – career advancement, enhanced life quality, employers’ rejections, lack of soci al interactions and family role. Based on the findings, a conceptual framework was developed. The conceptual framework consists of the push and pull model, national culture, and cognitive dissonance which were found to be useful for the analysis and interpretation of the findings. Using findings from the interviews and conceptual framework, the analysis was conducted which was followed by the discussion, where the authors of this thesis interpreted and discussed the findings from different perspectives. This thesis revealed that international students are attracted to work in Sweden for different reasons. However, finding a job in Sweden is a difficult task for them. It has emerged that international students are facing troubles when looking for employment as well as with communicating with locals. Those troubles were discussed with the goal to understand why do they come out. Family topic has also emerged suggesting that it plays an important role when deciding whether to seek employment in Sweden after the studies or not. As this thesis provides insights into the experiences of international students, it is beneficial for the companies who are interested in hiring them. Moreover, companies who have never considered hiring international students could be encouraged to try a new practice. The stories provided in the thesis might be useful for the university, when providing assistance for international students as well as for the students themselves to form a realistic picture of what they might experience in Sweden.

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Dang, Mai T. (Mai Thuy Tran). "What comes next? : employment opportunities for Vietnamese American fisherfolk affected by the BP gulf oil spill in Louisiana." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66886.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.
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This thesis explores potential employment opportunities in energy efficiency construction and aquaculture for Vietnamese American fisherfolk significantly impacted by the BP oil spill in Louisiana. First, the thesis explains the history of the Vietnamese American community in Louisiana and the affects of Hurricane Katrina as well as the BP oil spill on the community. This is done in order to build the case for the need to look for alternative employment for dislocated Vietnamese American fisherfolk. Second, it assesses the skills and job suitability for Vietnamese American dislocated fisherfolk. It then explores the potential growth of the energy efficiency construction and aquaculture industries in Louisiana. Finally, the thesis concludes with recommendations for how Vietnamese American fisherfolk can enter these industries and how Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation can further explore future employment opportunities for dislocated Vietnamese American fisherfolk.
by Mai T. Dang.
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Simanga, Olga. "Experiences of women who have completed a job skills training programme and their ability to access employment opportunities." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31255.

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Women make up more than half the population of South Africa. Despite the countries’ legislation and policies to promote the rights and social position of women, many remain unemployed and disempowered, face ongoing discrimination and are not able to access resources including educational opportunities. This dissertation reports on the outcomes of a study that was conducted with women to assess their ability to access employment opportunities after having completed a skills training program. In-depth, face-to-face interviews were undertaken with fifteen women who were purposively selected from different backgrounds of Cape Town who had participated in a skills training program to participate in the research. The research integrated a qualitative exploratory approach to explore various experiences of the participants to examine how their involvement with a job skills training programme enabled them to access employment. The research findings revealed that the job skills training programmes enabled most of the women to get employment, and as a result, be able to support themselves financially. Their sense of wellbeing improved, and they were able to access resources like housing. The study also found that policies such as the Employment Equality Act No. 55 of 1998 was well understood and implemented by organisations promoting women’s empowerment through skills training and they implemented the policy to improve the lives of women. However, the study also found existing challenges for women related to the implications of past discriminatory policies and cultural dimensions of family life, especially within black communities, by which women’s role were understood as having to be in the home. The research concludes with recommendations that include further education in communities as well as working spaces about women’s empowerment for both men and women, better enforcement of the rights of women by the state, and further research on how to address the challenges that women face in South Africa society as relates their empowerment.

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Durie, Saines Deborah, and n/a. "Factors influencing the success of women in educational administration in the Australian Capital Territory." University of Canberra. Education, 1991. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061107.162348.

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The role of women has become a central issue in educational debate because of the discrepancy between their representation at the administrative and policy level and their representation at the classroom level. This study identified the factors which aid the success of women in educational administration. By using structured interviews and response analysis the study identifies major facilitaters and barriers to success. The literature review surveys the position of women in educational administration. The study provides information that is crucial to aspiring female educators in individual career planning and is essential to systems in the promotion of Equal Employment Opportunities. Research was undertaken in the Australian Capital Territory and involved Government and Non Government systems.

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Radloff, Carla. "Variables influencing the retention of designated employees in a platinum mine / Carla Radloff." Thesis, North-West University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/642.

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Retention of key employees is becoming an increasingly important challenge faced by many organisations. With every employee that leaves the company, cost of recruitment and appointment, as well as training and development cost subsequent to that, are lost. The situation is aggravated by the fact that it is usually the higher performing employee who is more mobile from a career point of view, or the employee who has completed his/her training and who is more marketable, that is lost to the organisation. To effectively retain workers, employers must know which factors motivate their employees to stay on and which factors cause them to leave. The general research objective was to determine variables that influence the retention of designated employees within a platinum mine. A qualitative research design was used. Twenty four designated employees were selected randomly from the following occupations in the mining career path, namely Crew Captain in training, Crew Captain, Learner Official and Shift Supervisor. A qualitative measuring instrument, based on the phenomenological paradigm, was used to determine employees' perceptions of retention of designated employees. Content analysis was used to analyse, quantify, and interpret the research data. The results indicated that designated employees are poached by competitor companies; that designated employees leave for better payment or benefits; that they value opportunities for growth and development; that the Crew Captain title, job content and job category cause employees to be unhappy; that designated employees leave after receiving training and development; that they do not feel valued or listened to; that they are unhappy with accommodation benefits and the bonus system; that they are managed by fear; that job security makes designated employees to stay; that they leave due to poor benefits; that they are in general dissatisfied with the company; that work and safety conditions are good; that designated employees experience a lot of work pressure; that they value family responsibility; that designated employees with limited education stay; and that they experience racial discrimination. Recommendations for future research are also made.
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Platman, Kerry. "The price of freedom : the opportunities and constraints of freelance employment for older workers : a study of media professionals." Thesis, Open University, 2002. http://oro.open.ac.uk/19906/.

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The UK's population is ageing at a time when its oldest workers are leaving the labour market at progressively younger ages. This paradox - of declining economic activity rates among the 50 plus age group and rising longevity - has led to widespread concern over the social and economic consequences . Meanwhile, flexible work has grown in the UK economy and has been promoted as a promising solution to 'the problem' of older workers. Portfolio-type work in particular has been presented as a liberating option for the over 50s. Working for a range of clients, so the argument goes, would allow older workers to bypass barriers to employment in later life (such as company-specific early exit programmes), and would also allow them to negotiate their own transition into retirement. Yet there is a lack of research that examines the realities of portfolio working and its sustainability for people wishing or needing to remain economically active in later life. This study of freelancing among older workers was located in a sector where portfolio-type work was well-established: the media industry. It relied on in-depth, face-to-face interviews with 51 people who were actively engaged in freelance work as employers, individual freelancers and industry experts. The aim was to understand the conflicts, barriers and opportunities to freelance employment for those aged 50 years and over, using two contrasting perspectives, one provided by Nikolas Rose in his 'powers of freedom' thesis and the other by Margaret Archer in her 'morphogenetic' approach to realist social theory. The study found that freelancing did extend working lives and permit a degree of freedom and control in later life. However, it was a form of employment which was insecure, volatile and largely unregulated. The oldest freelancers were vulnerable to diminishing rewards, dwindling networks, dated skills and ageist attitudes. Age was found to be an important mediating factor in the experience of risk in the freelance labour market.

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Agia, Aziza Eugenie. "The role of biotechnology training partnerships in expanding local employment opportunities for community college graduates in California's biotechnology industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59725.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.
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This study addresses a gap in the policy and planning literature regarding the extent to which public workforce intermediaries in a knowledge-intensive industry expand employment opportunities for a nontraditional, i.e., less-educated or displaced workforce. Specifically, it investigated the recruitment and hiring practices for entry-level biomanufacturing and biological technicians among a sample of life sciences companies in the San Francisco Bay Area and the Greater San Diego Area in order to determine whether training partnerships composed of community colleges, employers and public agencies shape labor supply and demand in favor of community college graduates. The study also examined the mechanisms through which such intermediaries influence recruitment and hiring practices, focusing on strategies to encourage employers' active engagement in the partnership and to facilitate extensive collaboration among key partners. To measure impact on industry practices, I gathered from a treatment and comparison group of firms the percentage of technicians in the current entry-level workforce that holds a community college degree or certificate. To determine the factors associated with successful (or unsuccessful) program intervention in the sample firms' recruitment and hiring practices, I conducted qualitative interviews of company staff regarding the education and training needs of the company with respect to its technician-level workforce, as well as the company's perceptions of its community college hires vis-A-vis their bachelor-degreed counterparts. The evidence shows that, among companies employing a bio-manufacturing workforce, the programs have succeeded in training future technicians to meet the needs of area employers (a supply-side goal); and in negotiating skills-based, as opposed to credential-based hiring, while legitimating the community college population as a viable candidate pool (both demand-side goals). The evidence is mixed with respect to the programs' ability to increase graduates' access to entry-level employment in the research laboratory setting. Finally, the evidence shows that partnership efforts produce industry-relevant curriculum, training, and services; facilitate the learning necessary to generate program innovation; and establish relationships of trust with company staff. Together, such outcomes positively shape the opportunity structure facing community college job seekers.
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Kim, Eun. "A soft skills training program for youth and young adults to increase their future employment opportunities| A grant proposal." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1600058.

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Given the growing rates of youth and young adult unemployment today, particularly in urban contexts, this grant proposal seeks funding to support the development of a soft skills training program for youth ages 15-24 in the Baldwin Park area of Los Angeles County. Essential soft skills needed to help youth secure and retain successful employment can include the interpersonal skills of better communication with supervisors and co-workers the job, teamwork, conflict resolution, and the capacity to regulate time management. The goal of this program is to increase employability by giving these inner city youth an increasingly valued skill set in order to promote an increase in youth employability in this community. A comprehensive grant funding search identified the California Wellness Foundation as a potential funding source for the proposed program. The actual submission or funding of the grant was not a requirement for the successful completion of the grant proposal.

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Platman, Kerry. "The price of freedom : the opportunities and constraints of freelance employment for older workers : a study of media professionals." n.p, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/.

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Cordell, Laura Michele Portune. "Bridging the Gap, Transitioning Vocalists from Academia to Career." The Ohio State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1311268981.

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Startseva, Ksenia, and Vaida Vysniauskaite. "'A Valuable Link': The Opportunities for Swedish SMEs by Incorporating Diasporas into the Process of Internationalization." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Business Administration, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-9628.

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With the conditions of new economy such tendencies as internationalization of firms, mi-gration of high skilled workers, growing importance of the knowledge and others become relevant. Having these contextual matters in mind, the authors of this thesis identify the beneficial aspects that are related to Diasporas' inclusion into the process of internationali-zation. In broad outline, this thesis is about the competitive advantage achieved by a firm which employs foreigners to work with the process of business expansion to foreigners' countries of origin. This competitive advantage is proved to manifest itself through the knowledge and competences embedded in those employed foreigners.

The purpose of this thesis is to answer 'in what ways can Swedish SMEs benefit from Di-asporas' inclusion into the process of internationalization?' and thus fill the theoretical gap in the existent studies. In order to address the purpose of the research, a theoretical model which merges the research field of internationalization and Diaspora studies, considered the conditions of new economy, was constructed. With the help of this model, the role of Diasporas in the process of internationalization has been explored and explained.

For the empirical study, the qualitative method was applied and semi-structured interviews were conducted in five different Swedish SMEs. The interview guide, which was based on the theoretical model and on the main research objectives, was used when conducting in-terviews with a number of management positions fulfilling participants, as well as Diaspora.

The results of an empirical study showed that Diasporas can be efficiently used for compa-ny's expansion strategies and significantly benefit due to several reasons. First of all, fo-reigners, or Diasporas, can be considered as holding relevant knowledge base in regards to their home countries, such as language, culture, personal contacts, etc. At the same time, while staying in Sweden, they get to familiarize with the Swedish culture, social structures, and business opportunities, and establish diversified contacts. With regards to international business expansion, this knowledge of two-fold nature is proved to be highly valuable.

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Peng, Yisheng Peng. "Antecedents of older nurses' intentions to continue working in the same organization after retirement." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1498339865932619.

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