Publications

Governance Infrastructure of Education – Training – Work Continuum: Some Missing Dots

2023 | Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

In Carton, M. & Hofmann, C. (Guest Editors), “The Education-Training-Work Continuums: Pathways to Socio-Professional Inclusion for Youth and Adults. NORRAG Special issue (NSI) 8, Geneva: Norrag and ILO. This chapter proposes a governance infrastructure to guide and coordinate six education–training–work transformations, namely, human capacity and demography; consumption and production; decarbonization and energy; food, biosphere, and water; […]

Jamaica’s development of women entrepreneurship: challenges and opportunities

2019 | Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

Public Administration and Policy, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 152-172 The economic conditions in Jamaica and the role of females as domestic caregiver have made it difficult for women to enter the labour force even though Jamaican women are relatively better educated than men. Women remain at a disadvantage in the labour force. Jamaica’s legislation […]

Policy Debate | Learning to Grow Beyond the Middle Income Trap Singapore as an Export Model?

2014 | Authors: Gopinathan. S., Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

International Development Policy. Article and Debates 5-3. In the initial paper ‘Learning to Grow’, the authors argue that a key challenge for middle income countries is to avoid ‘the middle income trap’. In this situation, economic growth has come to a halt and a country is unable to transition to the next level in part […]

Stakeholder-based Monitoring of Leadership Training in Public Administration

2013 | Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

Stakeholder-based Monitoring of Leadership Training in Public Administration, 2013. Yiu, L.& Saner, R. in de Vries, M.S. & Bouckaert, G. (eds.) Training for Leadership. Public Administration Today Series. Bruylant. p.201-220 Abstract Governments have made on-going investments to maintain and improve their civil servants’ mastery of their policy leadership functions. In addition to the remedial aspects […]

Talent Attrition and Retention: Strategic Challenges for Indian Industries in the Next Decade

January 2014 | Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

Attrition rates have been high in several of the key sectors of the Indian Economy leading to discussions about which could be the best retention strategies to counter high labour turnover. Measurements are scarce of HR functions in Indian . This article contributes to the measurement of Indian HR function by reporting on the findings […]

Comments to McKinsey Q. report on training

July 2010 | Authors: Lichia Yiu

Comments to McKinsey Survey of Training (July 2010) by Professor Lichia Yiu Article

Survey on training quality management in Europe: Need for improvement

Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

It can be difficult for the uninitiated to understand in-company training. Most companies will say that “employees are our most important asset” and “we are committed to developing our human resources”, but managers may still know little about the actual return on training activity. Has it been useful? For whom? What has been achieved? This […]

Survey on training quality management in Europe – Need for improvement

Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

The survey questionnaire was sent to 100 European companies, of which 34 responded. The highest response rate was from companies in France, Great Britain and Switzerland. Others were from Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Participating companies were mostly large and medium-sized enterprises engaged in construction, banking, industrial goods, insurance, automobiles, media and communications, and […]

Employee Turnover Study

2008 | Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

Centre for Social Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND), the parent organisation of the AdeQuaTE, with the support of the Confederation of Indian Industries carried out an on-line survey regarding employee turnover. Results of this on-line survey is published in the “Research Report”, 2008, Lichia Yiu and Raymond Saner, Geneva. Research Report

Weiterbildungsinvestititionen lohnt sich das?

2007 | Authors: Lichia Yiu, Raymond Saner

Zertifikation: Weiterbildungsinvestititionen lohnt sich das? Raymond Saner und LIchia Yiu, 2007 Saner (German)

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