Closing the Literacy Gap in American Business: A Guide for Trainers and Human Resource Specialists

Work force education has become the quintessential human resource issue of the 1990s. Its impact is now felt by more than 80 million adults, and carries an annual $300 billion price tag in lost employee productivity. This unique book offers readers a complete review of past, present, and future adult literacy programs. It provides essential context on how this training/educational issue suddenly appeared. Also considered are how current programs consistently fail to close an ever-widening workplace education gap. The book does not talk around potential solutions. Instead, it gives practical, real-life case study examples, from successful on-site company programmes conducted by the authors. A blueprint is outlined on how to offer work force education for any business large or small. This book aims to provide insights to senior executives, human resource/training and development managers, or adult educators, so that they will obtain a clear understanding of how to organize a multi-level, cost-justified work force educational programme that meets 21st-century international productivity requirements.