Employment mindsets for promoting job-skill training
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Unemployed and underemployed adults in the United States are not getting trained fast enough to meet demand in "middle-skilled" fields such as healthcare support, some skilled manual trades, and some computer programming jobs (National Skills Coalition, 2017; National Academies of Sciences & Medicine, 2017). Research suggests that psychological factors play an important mediating role in the decision to get job-skill training (Colquitt, LePine, & Noe, 2000). In this dissertation, I apply an academic mindset framework (Paunesku, 2015) to the domain of job-skill training by exploring two novel "employment mindsets": a growth mindset about job skills (a belief in "skill-acquirability"), and the belief that there are good jobs available to be claimed in the economy (a belief in "job-availability"). In Chapters 1-3, I provide evidence from ~6,000 US adults that both of these employment mindsets can be influenced with targeted activities and that this influence translates into changes in self-reported intent to seek training. Employment mindsets may also play a role in the decisions of supporters and gatekeepers in society who can make training easier or harder to obtain for others. In Chapters 4-5, I explore the relationships between employment mindsets, the willingness to politically support pro-retraining policies, and the willingness to train hypothetical applicants of different backgrounds in a work-training scenario.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Greene, Daniel |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Domingue, Ben |
| Degree supervisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Domingue, Ben |
| Thesis advisor | Dweck, Carol S, 1946- |
| Thesis advisor | Mitchell, John C |
| Degree committee member | Mitchell, John C |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Daniel Greene. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Daniel Greene
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC-SA).
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