an article by Ronald G. Sultana (University of Malta, Msida) published in British Journal of Guidance and Counselling Volume 41 Number 2 (April 2013)
Abstract
This article sets out to trigger research and policy attention among the career guidance community to the increasingly important notion of `flexicurity'.
It first explores the different meanings of the term, particularly as these have evolved in discussions across the European Union. It then goes on to consider why `flexicurity' has attracted so much policy interest, particularly in its promise to both support labour market competitiveness and increase economic efficiency on the one hand, while protecting the interests of workers on the other.
Next, the article documents some of the key debates around the notion of flexicurity, highlighting the fact that any consideration of `flexicure' arrangements needs to be empirically grounded in time and space, and carefully contextualised.
The article concludes by making a series of critical reflections on the need to `insert' career guidance in the European discourse on `flexicurity'.
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Friday, 26 April 2013
Thursday, 2 August 2012
Older professional workers and continuous learning in new capitalism
an article by Tara Fenwick (University of Stirling) published in Human Relations Volume 65 Number 8 (August 2012)
Abstract
Amidst projected shortages of skilled workers, policy measures to retain older workers in employment include increasing their participation in learning.
However, the few studies produced to date examining older workers’ learning suggest complexities not recognised in human capital conceptions of skill development and assumptions of declining seniors’ participation.
To build on these studies, particularly in older professionals’ learning, which has received little attention despite concerns regarding professional transitions in a knowledge economy, this article examines older professionals’ approaches to and conceptions of learning.
The study involved 816 accountants’ survey responses and 60 interviews with older (50+) Certified Management Accountants in Canada. Far from withdrawing from learning, these older professionals are particularly focused in what, when and how they engage. Their enactments are complex, and demonstrate ambivalences related to discourses of both age and learning.
More fundamentally, they negotiate the various pressures associated with new capitalism strategically: deliberately complying with some, refusing others, and generally resisting subjectification either as excluded ‘older workers’ or as continuous learners.
Abstract
Amidst projected shortages of skilled workers, policy measures to retain older workers in employment include increasing their participation in learning.
However, the few studies produced to date examining older workers’ learning suggest complexities not recognised in human capital conceptions of skill development and assumptions of declining seniors’ participation.
To build on these studies, particularly in older professionals’ learning, which has received little attention despite concerns regarding professional transitions in a knowledge economy, this article examines older professionals’ approaches to and conceptions of learning.
The study involved 816 accountants’ survey responses and 60 interviews with older (50+) Certified Management Accountants in Canada. Far from withdrawing from learning, these older professionals are particularly focused in what, when and how they engage. Their enactments are complex, and demonstrate ambivalences related to discourses of both age and learning.
More fundamentally, they negotiate the various pressures associated with new capitalism strategically: deliberately complying with some, refusing others, and generally resisting subjectification either as excluded ‘older workers’ or as continuous learners.
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