Company training strategies amid demographic change

Results of a study of small and medium-sized enterprises in Eastern Germany

Coverbild: BWP 2/2014
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Ausgabe/Jahr (Jahrgang) 2/2014 (43)
Seite(n) 31-35
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    englisch

The consequences of demographic change are being felt particularly in Germany’s eastern federal states, and are leading to a shift in the relation between supply and demand on the apprenticeship-place market. Small and medium-sized enterprises in particular are adapting their training strategies to market conditions. In a qualitative study by the Universities of Jena and Rostock, four in-company initial vocational training strategies could be identified and typical patterns of practice inferred, which are presented and reflected upon in the article.