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Workforce
About: Workforce is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 32140 publications have been published within this topic receiving 449850 citations. The topic is also known as: labour force & labor force.
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TL;DR: A country-led, data-driven process to sharpen national health plans, seize opportunities to address the quality gap for care at birth and care of small and ill newborn babies, and systematically scale up care to reach every mother and newborn baby, particularly the poorest is proposed.
255 citations
TL;DR: This work aims to provide an overview of education, tasks and remuneration of nurses and other primary care team members in six OECD countries using a framework of team organization across the care continuum to inspire policy makers and researchers to work on efficient and effective teams care models worldwide.
252 citations
TL;DR: Examination of approaches to educational professional development at The Open University, including recent initiatives related to faculty development in relation to mobile learning, reflects on what can be learnt and proposes a lifelong learning perspective which can help the higher education workforce to adapt.
Abstract: In a time of change, higher education is in the position of having to adapt to external conditions created by widespread adoption of popular technologies such as social media, social networking services and mobile devices. For faculty members, there must be opportunities for concrete experiences capable of generating a personal conviction that a given technology is worth using and an understanding of the contexts in which it is best used. The paper examines approaches to educational professional development at The Open University, including recent initiatives related to faculty development in relation to mobile learning. The paper reflects on what can be learnt from these experiences and proposes a lifelong learning perspective which can help the higher education workforce to adapt. Faculty members have to commit to lifelong learning, remembering that ‘professional role model’ to students is one of the main roles of the teacher.
251 citations
TL;DR: There is an urgent need to develop and test a range of evidence based approaches that will both empower nurses and embed systematic approaches that enable equitable and contextually relevant stewardship of new graduate nurses into the future.
251 citations
TL;DR: This paper examined the relationship between workforce demographics and aggregate productivity and found that changes in the age structure of the workforce are significantly correlated with the aggregate productivity of the entire workforce. But, they did not examine the effect of the age distribution on the productivity of individual workers.
Abstract: This paper examines the relationship between workforce demographics and aggregate productivity. Changes in the age structure of the workforce are found to be significantly correlated with ...
250 citations