Due to rapid technological advancements, evolving workplace structures, and a shift towards remote work, the nature of work is undergoing transformations influencing communication, work dynamics, and learning processes. Improving the skills of future workforces is now a necessity as the growth of work-skill misalignment and employability skills gaps becomes prevalent. Educational institutions must prepare students for the digital world by providing them with advanced knowledge and essential skills in modern technology. To positively shape the future workforce, effective solutions for skill revitalization should be explored. Revitalizing Student Skills for Workforce Preparation explores the intricacies of evolving and complex professional landscapes, including the challenges and opportunities of student skill development. The pivotal role of skill development in education is emphasized while delving into how effective skill education will shape the future workforce. This book covers topics such as digital technology, professional development, and emotional intelligence, and is a useful resource for educators, business professionals, and policymakers, academicians, researchers, and administrators.

Due to rapid technological advancements, evolving workplace structures, and a shift towards remote work, the nature of work is undergoing transformations influencing communication, work dynamics, and learning processes. Improving the skills of future workforces is now a necessity as the growth of work-skill misalignment and employability skills gaps becomes prevalent. Educational institutions must prepare students for the digital world by providing them with advanced knowledge and essential skills in modern technology. To positively shape the future workforce, effective solutions for skill revitalization should be explored. Revitalizing Student Skills for Workforce Preparation explores the intricacies of evolving and complex professional landscapes, including the challenges and opportunities of student skill development. The pivotal role of skill development in education is emphasized while delving into how effective skill education will shape the future workforce. This book covers topics such as digital technology, professional development, and emotional intelligence, and is a useful resource for educators, business professionals, and policymakers, academicians, researchers, and administrators.

As business technology advances, global competition results in shifting consumer expectations. Businesses with effective knowledge management have become essential for organizations seeking to thrive. Modern business environments are complex, requiring leaders and teams to navigate data, insights, and strategies. As businesses confront challenges like market volatility, regulatory changes, and the need for sustainable practices, cultivating an understanding of industry dynamics, emerging trends, and innovative practices is pivotal. Further research into the intersectionality of business essentials with emerging technologies, socio-economic factors, and environmental sustainability may foster interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation. Building Business Knowledge for Complex Modern Business Environments explores essential components necessary for navigating contemporary business landscapes. It delves into crucial aspects such as strategic planning, financial management, technological integration, marketing strategies, and sustainable practices through detailed analysis and practical examples for business success. This book covers topics such as management science, digital technology, and entrepreneurship, and is a useful resource for business owners, managers, administrators, data scientists, computer engineers, academicians, and researchers.

Within the context of higher education, teamwork and collaboration have become integral to organizational success. While there remains inherent complexity to developing high performing teams in higher education, many institutions have prioritized the integration of collaboration efforts, goal attainment, and student support. Academic excellence achieved through teamwork prioritizes improved student engagement, innovative teaching methods, and collaborative research environments. Developing Effective and High-Performing Teams in Higher Education explores the strategies, best practices, and case studies for developing effective higher education teams. It brings together diverse insights on effective academic collaboration to achieve a myriad of higher education goals. This book covers topics such as student culture, education psychology, and information sharing, and is a valuable resource for educators, administrators, policymakers, academicians, and researchers.

This joint OECD-ILO report provides a comparative analysis of case studies focusing on improving skills use in the workplace across eight countries. The examples provide insights into the practical ways in which employers interact with government services and policies at the local level. They highlight the need to build policy coherence across employment, skills, economic development and innovation policies, and underline the importance of ensuring that skills utilisation is built into policy development thinking and implementation. Skills utilisation concerns the extent to which skills are effectively applied in the workplace to maximise workplace and individual performance. It involves a mix of policies including work organisation, job design, technology adaptation, innovation, employee-employer relations, human resource development practices and business-product market strategies. It is often at the local level that the interface of these factors can best be addressed.

This is a National Foreign Language Resource Center conference volume and special issue of Language Documentation and Conservation, an open-access journal (http: //nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/).

It is a fact that the world’s languages are dying at an alarming rate. This comprehensive volume aspires to raise awareness among applied linguists and language practitioners about the needs and concerns of endangered language communities. It suggests that the way forward lies in building language revitalization teams reflecting the levels of expertise that the fields of formal linguistics and applied linguistics have to offer – in how well researchers and practitioners exploit a tremendous networking potential across disciplines to address the needs of revitalization, stabilization, or maintenance in these communities. A wide range of expert contributors addresses the following themes: (1) how varied language teaching contexts dictate what applied linguists bring to the table; (2) how training in applied linguists can empower members of the speaking community; (3) why we should critically examine the issues and terminology used to describe endangered language contexts; and (4) how linguistic skills can be adapted and integrated, conceptually and pedagogically, into non-traditional teaching contexts. The strength of this collection lies in bringing together expert applied and field linguists whose work represents extensive field experiences, theoretical expertise, and passionate resolve to act. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language and Education.