By Talc Admin on
16/03/2010 5:36 PM
In a few short years the facts of climate change have been distorted, the science denigrated and the scientists chased and hounded by lobbyists and religious zealots. From a groundswell of possible reform and sensible policy, we have been placed in a corner from which my children and my grandchildren will pay a terrible price. It cannot be allowed to stand.
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By Talc Admin on
18/02/2010 8:31 PM
We know that there is a link between productivity and skills at the individual, enterprise, industry, sector and national level. More skills generally equals more productivity. Just how much and what is the benefit-cost analysis for T&L in terms of investment in education and training are the questions that need answers. There must be an answer somewhere. In 2003 TALC asked a PhD economics student to think about it and this is some of the response from that student.
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By Talc Admin on
29/01/2010 1:06 PM
Come along to The Industrial Relations Research Centre's Seminar on Truckers, Turnover and Accidents: Links to Cognitive Skills, Economic Preferences and Strategic Behaviour. Read on for more information!
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By Talc Admin on
17/01/2010 3:52 PM
W Edwards Deming remarked along these lines over 30 years ago. His words ring out in 2010 as true as they did then. If you can't measure, record, analyse and assess processes and systems in terms of real data, you cannot hope to manage or improve them. The alternative is guess work, blind faith and personal prejudice.
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By Talc Admin on
10/01/2010 10:04 AM
There is a growing disconnect between job design, skills and workplace organisation. The national training system is driven by the notion of individual "jobs" and individual skills needs. This atomisation of skills has led inevitably to a notion of personal training regimes and certification. It has ignored the wider issue of the collective nature of most workplaces in which multiple roles are swapped amongst workgroup members, and the "messy" and "informal" nature of real work.
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By Talc Admin on
29/12/2009 11:58 AM
The holiday season is a time of reflection for many of us. The odd new book to read, the occassional discussion with friends about things that matter. Often we just move back into our daily grind in the New Year and the books and conversations are forgotten. The cricket and the bottom line loom large in our thoughts. Just sometimes an idea lingers....
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By Talc Admin on
21/12/2009 7:12 PM
Copenhagen has come and gone. The issues remain. The ten carbon questions raised by TALC in July 2008 are still on the books. Do you have answers yet?
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By Talc Admin on
11/12/2009 7:48 PM
Nothing can prepare you for leaving the place. You can't wait to be back on familiar territory and yet when you are, you miss the place. Hard to say why. There is a newness and a strangeness, a disturbing element and a sense that this place is going somewhere.
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By Talc Admin on
10/12/2009 6:49 PM
What a city! There are thousands of factories in the Pearl River Delta, millions of workers, and they all seem to be determined to stare down the GFC. The economists are up beat, the logistics companies enthusiastic. What could possibly be wrong with this picture?
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By Talc Admin on
9/12/2009 4:15 PM
The Shenzhen International Logistics and Transportation Fair is billed as the biggest in Asia. It just might be that. There are over 300 exhibitors and many foreign visitors. For a region that carries 10% of total world manufacturing output it has grown from a small rural village in the 1980s to a dominant city of 10 million in 2009.
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