It seems that an employee’s level of engagement has more implications than learning leaders might expect, according to new research.

As the Obama administration shines a light on the training and skills workers will need for the jobs of tomorrow, a new report shows that U.S. employers continue to struggle with an ill-prepared workforce, finding new hires lack crucial basic and applied skills. For the most part, employer-sponsored readiness training is not successfully correcting these…

When business is booming and the future looks bright, most learning executives have no trouble focusing on — and investing in — initiatives around seemingly softer issues such as engagement.

Corporate salary budget increases have dropped to historic lows, according to the WorldatWork 36th Annual Salary Budget Survey. At 2.2 percent, the 2009 increase is the smallest in the survey’s history and 1.7 percentage points below the 3.9 percent that had been projected in the previous year’s report. The WorldatWork survey, the largest of its…

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