TY  - JOUR
AB  - A growing awareness is developing with regard
to the need for a highly skilled workforce to
maintain and improve the UK′s competitive
position. This realisation has developed hand‐in‐hand
with fears over the demographic changes
anticipated within the population, namely the
decline in the 16‐25 age group. It is becoming
commonplace to link these two themes with the
result that a “skills time bomb” is said to be
developing. In this first of three related articles,
an alternative view of the skills time bomb as a
micro‐level problem requiring micro‐level solutions
is offered. The skills time bomb may have been
exacerbated by the piecemeal and macro‐level
approaches to training – the solutions, however,
are to be found at the level of the firm, yet these
will not be unproblematic since the competitive
pressures to adopt increasingly sophisticated
attitudes to IT require a “new skills mix” from
workers, and so require a radically different
approach to training and development.
VL  - 12
IS  - 1
SN  - 0143-7739
DO  - 10.1108/01437739110140469
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/01437739110140469
AU  - Sinclair John
AU  - Collins David
PY  - 1991
Y1  - 1991/01/01
TI  - The Skills Time Bomb: Part I
T2  - Leadership & Organization Development Journal
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 4
EP  - 6
Y2  - 2024/04/19
ER  -