Employment Policies

Employment Policies

an Azorean story . . .

Ten things to say

Ten Key – Ideas AboutEmployment Policies

K1

EMPLOYMENT DEPENDS OF SEVERAL FACTORS

K2

PIB e Emprego 1991 - 2010

Açores

Employment depends of several factors

E, Employment m, motivation c, competences c, context

K2

Employment depends of several factors

E= mc2

K2

Enlarged Perimeter of Action

K3

40 years

Employment Policies: It’s a long life story

K4

Strategic Prospective is needed for Employment Policies

K5

Strategic Prospective for Employment PoliciesSome comments

Is not a matter of predicting the future, but of detecting the factor that needed to be worked

Strategic Prospective for Employment PoliciesSome comments

Is not a matter of predicting the future, but of detecting the factor that needed to be worked

“ The best prospective is not one that predicts the future but the one that leads to the action of building a desirable future”

Michel Godet

Strategic Prospective for Employment PoliciesTwo main questions

How to build an employment policy, not only one that could be adapted to change, but, mainly, one that could foresee the changes,

and one that could influence reality and be a real strategic instrument?

K5

Strategic Prospective for Employment PoliciesThe desirable future

Higher levels of qualified employmentGreater entrepreneurial qualificationMore employmentLess unemployment

Regional level is the best forEmployment Policies

As…

The perception chain The decision chain, and the action mechanisms

are shorter and more effective at the regional level.

K6

Clear vision, which policies, with whom policies have to be done…

K7

Clear vision, which policies, with whom policies have to be done…… are useless, if one does not put it into action

K7

K8

Political will is necessary …

Political will is necessary…… as the timing of results in the implementation of employment policies is not the timing of electoral cycles

K8

The importance of a very short chain of decision maker

K9

Policies must be understood and apprehended by all

K10

Employment Policies

Thank You

Rui BETTENCOURT

rui.js.bettencourt@azores.gov.pt