Occupational Training

Project

Encouraging Workforce Development in the Gulf States

As Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama seek to expand their economies, employers will require highly literate workers with advanced technical skills. RAND has conducted extensive research on K-12, college, and vocational education in the United States and overseas, as well as the role of education in workforce development.

Report

Can USAF Workforce Development Process Help Big-City Law Enforcement Agencies?

Police workforce readiness requires careful and consistent personnel development to ensure that needed skills and knowledge are recognized, appropriately utilized, and fostered. A RAND methodology developed for the U.S. Air Force may be applicable to law enforcement agencies, too.

Journal Article

The Role of Law in Public Health Preparedness: Opportunities and Challenges

Most local public health officials rely on their perceptions of the legal environment in which they operate, but those perceptions often do not match the actual laws enacted.

Report

Evaluating the Communities Foundation of Texas's Gift to the Dallas Police Department: The Caruth Police Institute's First Leadership Course

An evaluation of the first course offered by the Caruth Police Institute at Dallas, supported by funds from the Communities Foundation of Texas, considered participants' opinions of the course's impact on various aspects of their jobs.

Announcement

RAND Supports Development of Louisiana's 2012 Coastal Master Plan

RAND helped Louisiana develop its 2012 Coastal Master Plan to guide the state's coastal investments and help its coastal citizens plan for the future. The plan strikes a balance between providing immediate relief to hard hit areas and laying groundwork for large-scale efforts.

Journal Article

Impact of the Recession on Age Management Policies: Case Study: Ford, Spain

In Spain, the Ford Collective Agreement has some specific policies aimed at older workers that affect seniority bonuses and retirement practices.

Journal Article

Impact of the Recession on Age Management Policies: Case Study: Abengoa, Spain

Abengoa has HR practices and policies that promote the employability and mobility of all workers regardless of age. The organisation also has specific age management policies including partial retirement policies.

Journal Article

Impact of the Recession on Age Management Policies: Case Study: DHV, the Netherlands

DHV, a company reliant on the knowledge and personal skills of people, has placed strong emphasis on training and development, on promoting a healthy workforce, as well as on new ways of working, all of which provide more freedom for workers to choose the means to do their work.

Journal Article

Impact of the Recession on Age Management Policies: Case Study: KPN, the Netherlands

In the Netherlands employers were encouraged to invest more in education and training instead of preferential age-related benefits, as part of efforts to make employing older staff more attractive to companies.

Journal Article

Impact of the Recession on Age Management Policies: Case Study: BARCO, Belgium

According to representatives of the company interviewed for this case study, there has been a greater willingness to recruit people aged 50 or more during the economic cycle of the past two to three years, but this is cyclical.

Report

Customized Learning: Potential Air Force Applications

Examines educational approaches that would customize U.S. Air Force training to individual needs, with the intent of minimizing training time and hastening trainee productivity, leading to reduced costs. Recommends vocational training experiments.

Commentary

Change Choices, Not Conversation

Too often we talk only about the ongoing challenges facing education, health care, transportation and economic development across the Gulf South — Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.... We need to determine new ways to work together across state lines to focus on solutions that will benefit the entire region, writes Melissa Flournoy.

Report

Assessing NYPD’s Firearm Training and Firearm Discharge Investigations

More opportunities for thorough training, closer monitoring of lower-rated police officers, and incorporating non-lethal devices can help further reduce the already minute probability that an NYPD officer fires their weapon.

Report

Finding the Balance Between Schoolhouse and On-the-Job Training

A cost-benefit analysis conducted for the US Air Force helped to determine the most cost-effective combination of initial skills training (IST) and on-the-job training (OJT), taking into consideration how productivity changes when IST course length changes.

Report

The Future at Work — Trends and Implications

What are the forces that will continue to shape the U.S. workforce and workplace over the next 10 to 15 years? RAND analyzes trends in and the implications of shifting demographic patterns, the pace of technological change, and the path of economic globalization.

Journal Article

Emerging Policy for Vocational Learning in England: Will It Lead to a Better System?

This report analyses recent policy initiatives in England relating to vocational learning, and compares them with policies in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

Journal Article

Outcomes and Processes in Vocational Learning: A Review of the Literature

This report critically reviews a range of evidence on different vocational learning programmes, their purposes and outcomes, and the learning processes involved.

Research Brief

Improving the Quality of DoD's Civilian Workforce: Guidance for the Office of the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development

Among the recommendations is that the Chancellor's office focus on becoming the DoD educational information center in the near term while seeking, over the medium term, to develop a role in the program approval process.

Journal Article

Investing in the Future: Reducing Poverty Through Human Capital Investments

Report

Accountability in Workforce Training

In this issue paper, the authors argue that current congressional proposals to change federal workforce training programs may undermine this purpose because they pay little attention to accountability.