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Student awareness about information technology skill development programs is important for career mobility in a globalized economy. Globalization and rapid technological change are leading to higher skills requirements. As technologies advance, the demand increases for workers with advanced skills who can adapt to complex cognitive, technical, and interpersonal tasks. Training programs help develop these skills and strategic competencies to keep up with technological changes in labor markets.

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Stephanie Case Study

Student awareness about information technology skill development programs is important for career mobility in a globalized economy. Globalization and rapid technological change are leading to higher skills requirements. As technologies advance, the demand increases for workers with advanced skills who can adapt to complex cognitive, technical, and interpersonal tasks. Training programs help develop these skills and strategic competencies to keep up with technological changes in labor markets.

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Student Awareness

about Information
Technology Skill
Development
Programs
Introduction
Continuously learning and developing one's skills requires identifying the skills needed
for mobility, and then successfully seeking out trainings or on-the-job opportunities for
developing those skills. An ability and capacity acquired through deliberate, systematic, and
sustained effort to smoothly and adaptively carryout complex activities or job functions
involving ideas (cognitive skills), things (technical skills), and/or people (interpersonal skills).
Major reasons for the importance of skills development in a globalized economy can be
elaborated as under:
• First, globalization is leading to increasing international standardization of educational
challenges and systems.
• Second, international organizations increasingly emphasize a largely common program
of competence development and lifelong learning.
• Third, the widespread adoption of international conventions that form the normative
basis for the competencies.
Globalization and Technological Change
The rate of technological advance has accelerated at an unprecedented pace, accordingly,
the development of skills through training should be the strategic response to technological
change, globalization and other forces affecting labor markets. The new generation of
technology, especially information and communications technologies and certain manufacturing
processes has likely effect on productivity and on the demand for workers with higher-level
skills and broader workplace competencies, who can command higher wages.
The introduction of new technologies has reduced the demand for unskilled labor and
raised the value of advanced skills and competencies in the industrialized economies. In the
services sector technological change has created new categories of high-skilled occupations in
health care, information processing, and finance and business services; in the goods-producing
sector too, the emphasis is now less on physical strength and adherence to routine and more on
workers' behavior, flexibility and initiative. Work practices associated with increased employee
involvement – such as the introduction of high-performance work organization involving
devolved decision-making, and reliance on team-based systems – are perhaps the most important
of the management practices affecting skill requirements. Self-managed teams in particular
transfer management skills to front-line workers as they are exposed to the tasks other team
members are performing.6

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