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31. The Economic Benefits of Improving Literacy Skills in the Workplace (1997)
Conference Briefing
Authors: Michael R. Bloom, Marie Burrows, Brenda Lafleur, Robert Squires
Enhancing literacy levels in the workplace improves bottom-line performance for Canada's employers and gives employers a better chance for success in their careers. The Results of the Conference Board of Canada's study, The Economic Benefits of Improving Literacy Skills in the Workplace, demonstrate that there are clear economic benefits for both employers and employees in improving workplace literacy. The findings contained in this Conference Briefing and in the research report, show that employers enhance the performance of their businesses in a wide variety of way that strengthen the bottom line, and employees are better able to succeed in the workplace when their literacy skills improve.
These findings are significant for both business and individuals. In the past, choices about investing in literacy were often made without having the right information to make the best- informed decision. Today, however, there is growing recognition that literacy is such a critical factor in corporate and personal success that it demands greater consideration and understanding. Employers are beginning to pay more attention to the potential impact of literacy on their business success, and employees are asking themselves to what extent literacy skill levels affect their own personal success and economic well being. This study clearly shows that they should be even more attentive to the literacy issue than they are today.
Literacy is important because it affects our human resource capability. A nation's human resource capability is the key to future competitiveness in an age when barriers to trade are disappearing, capital can be moved quickly, and natural resources are comparatively lowly valued. As a major trading nation, Canada's companies face significant competition in the marketplace. Globalization means that companies are increasingly faced with stiff international competition at home and abroad. Canada has traditionally enjoyed a comparative advantage in workforce skills over many of its competitors. However, recent rapid advances in the literacy skills of employees in other countries threaten our advantage; the competitiveness and profitability of our businesses are at risk. At the same time, the growing complexity of jobs in Canadian workplaces heightens the demands being placed on Canadian workers. For many, the literacy skills that earlier enabled them to do their jobs effectively are no longer sufficient for them to perform adequately today. Workers need to continuously acquire new skills and qualifications to succeed in modern workplaces.
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Added: 1997-10-29
32. Eight BC Workforce Literacy Initiatives (2000)
Final Report
Authors: Literacy BC
With funding from the National Literacy Secretariat (NLS) of Human Resources Development Canada, Literacy BC has implemented "Eight BC Workforce Literacy Initiatives," a series of projects intended to
1) help employers, unions, and educators recognize their stake in and responsibility for workforce literacy;
2) increase the demand for and usefulness of the information and consultation services that are available to employers, workers, and educators; and
3) develop strong, collaborative partnerships concerning workforce literacy issues and programs.
This report contains detailed descriptions of the eight initiatives and discusses specific activities and outcomes, general reflections, and sample materials for each of the initiatives. The eight initiatives include the following:
- alliance development
- public awareness
- business incentives
- labour awareness and support
- practitioner development
- new program support
- accredited curriculum design
- prior learning assessment portfolio evaluation
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33. Electronic Writing and Workplace Literacy (2002)
Authors: Heather Hemming, Lisa Langille, Sonya Symons
This paper discusses the importance of integrating electronic writing into workplace literacy programs, describes an approach to instruction based on reciprocal teaching, situated learning and strategy instruction, outlines the data analysis process used to assess the impact of the instruction, and discusses the findings.
Added: 2005-06-20
34. Employee Retention, Labour Turnover and Knowledge Transfer (2004)
A Report from the Round Table Discussions with Selected Employment Groups
Authors: Clarence Lochhead, Alex Stephens
This report, commissioned by the Canadian Plastics Sector Council (CPSC), provides an analysis of best practices in worker retention and knowledge transfer strategies. It contains both a review of the literature on best practices and a number of case studies of best practices in Canadian plastics manufacturing firms.
The authors found that low turnover was not necessarily the result of a formalized retention strategy. Instead, many of the firms were using their own knowledge and creativity to develop innovative practices that were appropriate to their own unique circumstances.
At the same time, there were common principles upon which good retention practices are built. The firms studied all had a strategic understanding of their workforce skill requirements; emphasized the importance of responsive and open communications; and based their practices upon the principle of treating people fairly.
CPSC is a national association set up to explore and address emerging human resources issues in the plastics processing industry.
Added: 2012-02-07
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35. Employment Sponsored Training among Recent Immigrants (2002)
Authors: Clarence Lochhead, Canadian Labour and Business Centre
The research presented in this paper shows that recent immigrant employees are less likely than the Canadian-born to receive employer sponsored training, even after controlling for several job-related factors known to affect the incidence of training. However, two key factors, language and the match between educational attainment and job skill requirements reduce the negative impact of recent immigrant status on training participation rates. This suggests that efforts to address and overcome language-related barriers to training, and to more accurately assess and locate immigrants within jobs commensurate with their human capital would improve their prospects for on-going skills development. At the policy level, it means greater efforts to improve the labour market integration of immigrants through Prior Learning Assessments and official language training initiatives would likely improve immigrant prospects for employer-sponsored training.
Added: 2007-06-22
36. The evolution of wealth over the life cycle (2012)
Perspectives on Labour and Income, Vol. 24, No. 3 - June 22, 2012
Series: Perspectives on Labour and Income – Statistics Canada
Authors: Amélie Lafrance, Sébastien LaRochelle-Côté
This Statistics Canada study uses a series of surveys to estimate and compare the wealth accumulation process from the young adult years, defined as ages 28 to 34, to the near-retirement period, ages 56 to 62, for three successive cohorts of Canadians who entered adulthood in 1977, 1984, and 1999 respectively.
The process of wealth accumulation differed across cohorts. Among more recent cohorts, both assets and debts were much higher, a factor that also affected financial ratios across cohorts. For instance, the median debt-to-assets ratio among people in their late 30s was 39 percent in 2005, compared with 25 percent among individuals in the same age bracket two decades earlier.
Although the wealth accumulation process generally became more unequal among recent generations of Canadians, the results differed by age group. Among young adults age 28 to 34, median net worth, defined as assets minus liabilities, declined primarily because those in the bottom half of the distribution held less wealth than their counterparts in earlier cohorts.
Among those in their late 30s, net worth grew among those near the top of the distribution, but did not change among those at the bottom.
The authors note that the findings reflect trends in home ownership. Among young adults, home ownership rates increased at the top of the distribution, and declined among those near the bottom. Among adults in their 30s, however, home ownership rates have remained relatively stable over recent decades.
Added: 2012-12-11
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37. Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick: A Provincial Snapshot - Part I (2000)
Brief Review of the Literature
Series: Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick
Authors: Literacy New Brunswick, Inc. (LNBI)
The Research and Development Centre on Education has prepared a brief review of relevant literature for its research project entitled Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick: A Provincial Snapshot (Spring 1999). This report presents the highlights of the Centre's review of the literature on family literacy. In the first section, definitions of family literacy and related concepts are given. The second section addresses the family's role in the literacy process and manifestations of the family's influence. The third section outlines new approaches and trends in family literacy and describes Nickse's typology, which is used to categorize interventions in this field. The fourth and final section discusses future research needs.
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Added: 2003-03-23
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38. Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick: A Provincial Snapshot - Part II (2000)
Sociodemographic Profiles of New Brunswick and it's Seven Health Regions: Population, Families with at least one child of 0 to 4 years of age, and Children 0 to 4 years of age
Series: Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick
Authors: Literacy New Brunswick, Inc. (LNBI)
The Centre for Research and Development in Education (CRDE) prepared sociodemographic profiles of New Brunswick's population, families with at least one child aged 0 to 4, and children of 0 to 4 years of age, as part of the research project on Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick: A Provincial Snapshot . This is intended to provide Literacy New Brunswick Inc. (LNBI) and its partners in matters of literacy with information which could be helpful in their evaluation of literacy needs, and in their planning of family literacy interventions for the New Brunswick population in general, and for the population of each of New Brunwick's seven health regions in particular.
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Added: 2003-03-21
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39. Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick: A Provincial Snapshot - Part III (2000)
Inventory of Family and Early Childhood Literacy Interventions in New Brunswick
Series: Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick
Authors: Literacy New Brunswick, Inc. (LNBI)
The objective of this inventory is to compile a preliminary status of the community interventions in early childhood and family literacy in New Brunswick. This preliminary inventory gives an outline of the interventions that directly or indirectly supported the promotion of early childhood and family literacy in New Brunswick in the spring of 1999. It briefly describes each intervention reported.
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40. Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick: A Provincial Snapshot - Part IV (2000)
Survey of Parents of Preschool Children
Series: Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick
Authors: Literacy New Brunswick, Inc. (LNBI)
The Centre de recherche et de développement en éducation (CRDE) in collaboration with Literacy New Brunswick Inc. (LNBI) surveyed a geographical representative sample of New Brunswick parents of preschool children for its research project entitled Family and Early Childhood Literacy in New Brunswick : A Provincial Snapshot (Spring 1999). The objective of the survey was to take stock of the family literacy activities of New Brunswick parents of preschool children, both in the home and the community. This report on the findings of the parental survey consists of three sections: the methodology used to conduct the survey, the findings of the survey, and the conclusion.
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