‘Africa Rising’: Exploring Bulging Youth Population as a ‘Tickling Time Bomb’ or a ‘Demographic Dividend’

Seizing the Demographic Dividend

One of the reasons for tightly regulating apprenticeships was to prevent companies from hiring cheap labour under the guise of an apprenticeship programme. A simpler set of provisions to streamline regulation and incentivize corporates while protecting the interest and well-being of apprentices may now be needed. How can it be made to work? The rules and regulations overseeing apprenticeships n...

The Demographic Time Bomb: Human Resources Challenges in Banking

Yet many banks today are putting themselves at risk in an equally critical area of preparing for the future: their own human capital. Amid the current demographic reality of rapidly aging work forces, insufficient humanresources planning will place the viability of many financial institutions in substantial jeopardy in the coming years. This peril is linked to the potentially dramatic loss of c...

The 2022 GP: addressing the demographic time bomb.

How BMW is defusing the demographic time bomb.

PH OT O G RA PH Y: B M W I n June 2007, Nikolaus Bauer, the head of BMW’s 2,500-employee power train plant in Dingolfing, Lower Bavaria, was worrying about what looked like an inevitable decline in the productivity of an aging workforce in the years ahead. With two of his production managers, Peter Jürschick and Helmut Mauermann (a coauthor, with Bauer), he developed an innovative, bottomup app...

Determining Leisure Time as a Mechanism to Reduce Youth Generation Drug Use

The purpose of this study is to determine the youth generation leisure time as an important factor in reducing their inclination toward drug use in North Khorasan Province, by comparing drug addicted youth in addiction treatment centers of Social Welfare Organization with other non-addicted youth. This was a survey study and a questionnaire was used for data collection. The data was analyzed by...