The Mismanagement of Talent: Employability and Jobs in the Knowledge Economy
Phillip Brown, Anthony Hesketh, and Sarah Williams
Abstract
The challenge confronting governments around the world today is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, disregard social circumstances, gender, and other such barriers to talent, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy. However, people who have attained higher education are having trouble finding jobs, with rising stakes for the winners and losers. This book examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduate ... More
The challenge confronting governments around the world today is to enhance the employability of the workforce. Every effort must be made to expand access to higher education, disregard social circumstances, gender, and other such barriers to talent, and to harness human creativity and enterprise to meet the demands of the new economy. However, people who have attained higher education are having trouble finding jobs, with rising stakes for the winners and losers. This book examines what determines the outcome of this race when a degree loses its badge of distinction. It shows how some graduates are playing ‘the game’ to win a competitive advantage, and what really happens in the selection events of leading-edge employers. It also argues that talent is being mismanaged by employers that have yet to come to terms with the realities and possibilities of mass higher education.
Keywords:
knowledge economy,
management,
employability,
workforce,
higher education,
human creativity,
enterprise,
graduates
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2004 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199269532 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199269532.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Phillip Brown, author
School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
Anthony Hesketh, author
Management School, Lancaster University
Sarah Williams, author
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