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Baltimore's Workforce System At Work

by Chris Thompson

200 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); Illustrated; catalogue #04-1531; ISBN 1-4120-3703-4; US$19.99, C$25.00, EUR16.25, £11.26

Contains innovative material on benchmarking, return on investment, and sectoral strategies.

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About the Book

This is a first-of-its kind compilation of results and recommendations from performance support research projects undertaken by the Baltimore Local Workforce Investment Board on the City's local public workforce investment system. It contains innovative material on benchmarking against comparable LWIBs, return-on-investment from publicly-funded training programs, and development of sectoral workforce strategies. This book will be of great interest not only for its empirical results, but also for the strategic approach it takes to doing useful research and the practical, organizationally-grounded, methodologies it develops. These ensure outcomes will offer valuable insight for Board members in their planning and oversight roles. Content will be of interest elsewhere in the nation to workforce system practitioners and program managers, workforce agency staff professionals, public sector researchers, Workforce Investment Board members, local elected officials, state legislators, policy analysts, and budget-makers.

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About the Author

Dr. Chris Thompson has over twenty years experience in public policy analysis, evaluation, and performance research, and is the author of numerous articles in academic journals and professional reports. He is the author of The State of E-Learning in the States and Training for the Next Economy, and is the co-author of The Strength of American Families (with Tom Lengyel), and Centrality, Peripherality and EEC Regional Development (with David Keeble and Peter Owens). Prior to joining the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University he was Senior Policy Analyst at the National Governor's Association in Washingto2 DC, the Director of Research and Benchmarking at the American Society for Training and Development, and Deputy Director of the Maryland Governor's Workforce Investment Board. He has consulted for the National Institute for Standards and Technology's Manufacturing Extension Partnership, General Motors, the Conference of Central States Bankers' Associations, the European Union's Regional Policy Directorate, and the Arriyadh Development Authority of Saudi Arabia. He has degrees from University College London, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Cambridge. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Sara Murray Thompson, Dean of the Catholic University of America's Metropolitan College, and their daughter, Alexandra.

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