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The continent’s youth population is projected to double by 2050, to 840 million, and yet Africa’s schools and universities are not producing enough graduates with the technical skills to succeed in the workplace of tomorrow.
I also expected to hear from business representatives about whether my proposed solutions – greater workplace flexibility, ending the culture of face-time and “time machismo,” and allowing parents who have been out of the workforce or working part-time to compete equally for top jobs once they re-enter – were feasible or utopian.
It is fairly safe to predict that learning in a knowledge-intensive society will continue at a heightened pace, both at the workplace and outside of it.
The corporate world – indeed, the formal workplace more generally – can no longer be strictly separated from the informal world in which work and leisure have become blurred.
As a result, many programs now offer new options to reach these groups, such as confidential workplace testing and self-testing.
For example, in the standard economic analysis of workplace gender discrimination, men do not like to associate with women on the job – in the same way that they might prefer apples to oranges.
And, to ensure that their changing workplace needs are met, firms can take a more active role in supporting educational upgrading and continuous learning for lower-skill people.
For example, Apple’s brand was recently shaken by revelations about brutal workplace conditions at Foxconn factories in China, where most of its iPhones and iPads are assembled.
Education in the Digital AgeTOKYO – The Fourth Industrial Revolution stands out from its predecessors in a critical way: rather than making it easier for humans to use their surroundings more effectively for their own benefit, technology is displacing humans in the workplace.
Exempt from much workplace regulation, this is an industry that can afford to put cost-savings and profits above the wellbeing of employees.
It would not be surprising if these institutions also retard efficient exploitation of the new technological advances in the workplace.
But the workplace revolution is far from over.
If workplace abuse is to be curtailed, business leaders and C-Suite executives need a fresh approach.
Change is needed in the digital workplace as well.
To build a more inclusive workplace, management must craft narratives that support the changes their employees are demanding.
Changing workplace culture will demand similarly strong leadership.
The women of Hollywood may have initiated what has become a global call for equality at work, but the workplace revolution is no less significant for those of us who walk on less colorful carpets.
But Indian activists often refer to the case of another Bhanwari Devi, a social worker who was gang-raped in 1992, as an early turning point, for it resulted in 1997 in the Indian Supreme Court’s Vishaka judgment, which proposed guidelines to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.
With pressure mounting for legislative action, India last year finally adopted a law banning workplace sexual harassment.
The Hindu newspaper recently reported on the case of a 24-year-old lawyer, Anima Muyarath, who was suspended from the Calicut Bar Association after posting a remark on her Facebook page about sexist behavior in the workplace by her male superiors.
Third, women need policies that support their active participation in the emerging green economy, including better education, skills training, and protections against workplace discrimination.
Citizens in every country must reinvent the ways in which they connect with each other, and they must make these fit into life as lived in the 1990s, with its television, single parent families, and women in the workplace.
Most French understand that their public spaces – the labor market, the workplace, housing, and educational institutions – are corroded by discrimination.
And, apparently, he led by example: before he died earlier this month, ten women publicly accused him of sexual harassment, while at least 20 more privately accused him of some kind of workplace harassment.
For employees to develop, they must be imbedded in a stimulating workplace, with new problems to solve, harder tasks to be mastered, added abilities to strive for.
To stem the dramatic rise in disability payments, the Dutch now require firms with high claim rates to pay more for disability insurance, thereby creating a strong incentive to ensure greater workplace safety.
Technological changes that lightened the burden of housework, coupled with changing attitudes toward women in the workplace, now allow many more women to acquire an education and the relevant skills to pursue careers.
Casual racism – disparaging remarks made about other ethnic and national groups around the workplace, or over the bar or the family dinner table (as I can well remember growing up in the 1950’s) – had become much less prevalent in Australian private life, and certainly wholly absent from public life, by the 1990’s.
At the same time, the educational system must be linked more efficiently with the labor market, to ensure that curricula prepare students for the workplace.
If it is unfair for domestic firms to compete with foreign entities that are subsidized or propped up by their governments, is it not similarly unfair for domestic workers to compete with foreign workers who lack fundamental rights such as collective bargaining or protections against workplace abuse?
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