Traditionally

• Variety of activities related to developing workforce; particularly as related to the federally funded programs for workforce development that provide serviceto various adult and youth population (Jacobs & Hawley, 2009)

Evolution of Term

Giloth (2000)

“the phrase workforce development implies more than employment training in the narrow snese”

• Substantial employer engagement
• Deep community connection
• Career advancement
• Integrative human service support
• Contextual and industry-driven education and training
• Connective tissue of networks

1) Sustainable economic security of the individual

• Focuses on combination of social services, community supports, job training and education that help an individual be successful in the workforce

2) Initiatives that educate and train individuals

• focuses on sustaining competitive economic environment that benefits the sustainable economic growth of a community or region.

3) Organizational perspective

• Focuses on the skills their business or industry-need to remain competitive in the global marketplace.

Purpose of Study

• This study aim to provide a working definition of the workforce development profession and professionals by analyzing and existing documents of related occupations

Two questions will guide this study

• 1. What are the conceptual boundaries of workforce development as a field of practice and profession in comparison to related fields?
• 2. What are the occupational characteristics of workforce development as a profession in comparison with related fields?

Data

• Data from five different competency models of workforce development
• 285 of public accessible workforce development professionals’ skills list
• Over 100 job posting of workforce development professionals

Collected between May 2015 and August 2015

Content Analysis

• The meaning of object is formed by social process
• People use meaning of object by a interpretative process
• Developing substance theory requires that people identify attributes and dimension of entities
• A researcher can acquire insight and intuition by using structure of condition and results

Pathfinder Network Analysis

• During the coding process, the cognitive concept map will be generated
• The concept map is a map of the individual’s cognition on concepts
• Concepts are stuctured by proximity of the meaning
• Pathfinder Network Algorithm is considered to analyze the cognitive structure

Latent Semantic Analysis

• In order to assess disambiguity of meaning of work, latent semantic analysis is considered.
• Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is a computational-aided natural language process using document and term(Deerwester, Susan, Harshen, 1990).

By this study we expect to answering:

1. What are the conceptual boundaries of workforce development as a field of practice and a profession in comparison with related fields
2. What are the occupational characteristics of workfoce development as a profession in comparison with related fields

In order to fulfill the research purpose and questions, multiple methodological approaches were considered.

Contact

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