Employers and Workforce Skills:  The Case of IT and Mechanical Engineering Firms in the Czech Republic

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Authors	KLIMPLOVÁ Lenka
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Proceedings
Conference	Where do we go from here? Economic trends, social trajectories and policies of identities in post communist capitalism.
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Field	Management and administrative
Keywords	Workforce skills; human capital; private employers; production regimes; Czech Republic
Description	The paper presents different interpretations of a problem situation associated with ensuring of appropriately skilled workforce and different ways of problem solutions by the selected employers in mechanical engineering (representing the Fordist production regime) and IT (representing the post-Fordist production regime) sectors in the Czech Republic. The paper tries to explain these differences by use of functionalist and institutional approaches.
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