Author: Kimberly Wyatt SepichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Career changes
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Perceptions of Displaced Manufacturing Workers about Their Transition to Successful Re-employment Through a Community College Education Experience
Author: Kimberly Wyatt SepichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Career changes
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
An Observation of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in Their Transition for Successful Reemployment Through Community College Education/retraining Programs
Author: Christina GrandersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The economic changes that have occurred in this country over the course of this past decade have had a grave impact on manufacturing workers, which has forced many of these workers to transition into new career fields. As workers are faced with having to start new career paths, the community college has served as a hub of information and a source of inspiration to begin new careers. Through programs such as the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) program, these dislocated workers are able to acquire a new skill or trade. A qualitative study will investigate how dislocated workers make a successful transition from community college to a new career field. An examination will also be conducted, observing the positive transition that these workers have experienced since becoming unemployed. Due to the closures of manufacturing facilities, there are thousands of people who are now considered to be dislocated. Advances in technology and global trading have been the culprits in this shifting of the workforce; due to this, there has been an economic downturn in the areas affected by these plant closures. The federal and state governments have allocated resources to ensure that the dislocated workforce is retrained and educated through local community colleges in order to diversify and upgrade the workforce. The Trade Readjustment Act (TRA), which is a federal law that allows for displaced workers to be retrained are processed through job centers, which assists those workers who are unemployed through no fault of their own. The basic qualifications for unemployment benefits are to be unemployed through no fault of one's own and to be able and available for work. The aforementioned qualifications are suited to those individuals who have had the unfortunate experience of being laid off from a manufacturing plant. The local job center offices work closely with other state agencies and local community colleges. Community colleges act as a vehicle for the training, and the job center's objective is to then assist the worker, not only with its benefits and other programs, but also to assist the worker in becoming reemployed once they have been successfully retrained.
A Study of the Perceptions of Female Displaced Workers in a Community College Regarding Their Educational Expectations and Barriers to Their Achievement
Author: Pashia H. HoganPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Adult women enter or reenter college for a variety of reasons, one of which is because of the loss of a job and the need to retrain for reentry into the workforce. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to investigate the actual experiences of female displaced workers entering community college, as compared with their initial expectations as adult learners. Data were collected through interviews with 23 displaced workers age 25 or older who was either enrolled in an associate of applied science degree program or had graduated from an associate of applied science degree program at Northeast State Technical Community College between May 2000 and May 2003. The interviews were taped recorded and transcribed. The transcripts were analyzed using Glaser and Strauss's (1967) constant comparative method to inductively identify categories and patterns of thought. The findings were presented relative to the research questions posed in Chapter 1. Achieving particular grades, obtaining a degree, and being able to get a job were the primary ways in which the participants initially defined success. In addition, they attributed the success they achieved to the encouragement and support of their teachers, their families, and their peers as well as to their faith and personal dedication and determination. The barriers they encountered included dispositional, situational, and institutional barriers. Furthermore, they found their initial fears of not "fitting in" and of being too old to learn to be without merit. While they had underestimated the amount and level of difficulty of the work that would be involved, they had also underestimated their own abilities. Recommendations for future practice included conducting annual orientation sessions for faculty; semester reviews of course offerings and instructional delivery formats; and a series of ten, one-hour workshops, provided at the beginning of each semester, to help alleviate the fears that were consistently expressed. Additional qualitative and quantitative research was also recommended.
Reemployment Experiences of Dislocated Workers in a Community Experiencing High Umemployment
Author: Sharon Marie VandenHeuvelPublisher:
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Category : Displaced workers
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Research, Evaluation, and Demonstration Projects
Author: Automation and the workplace : selected labor, education, and training issues : a technical memorandum.
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428923896
Category : Automation
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: Displaced Workers
Author: Kevin HollenbeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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