Several problems relate to the research workforce, including failure to involve experienced statisticians and methodologists, failure to train clinical researchers and laboratory scientists in research methods and design, and the involvement of stakeholders with conflicts of interest.
The sluggish economy does not bode well for anyone, but it's especially bad for millennials who are suffering what the Georgetown Center for Education and the Workforce calls "failure to launch".
He examines the factors that have de-skilled much of the US workforce, not least failures in public education, and tells some poignant stories of the economic squeeze that is laying waste to the lives of so many.
He questioned whether the shortage of nurses in the NHS and social care was because of a failure in workforce planning, or because the service had changed.
It may well be that the King George, contested by just five others on firm ground, somewhat fell into his lap; that the failure of Workforce was only the most egregious among several.
"It is a direct consequence of short-term workforce planning and a failure to train and retain enough nurses, which has forced desperate trusts to spend over-the-odds just to maintain safe staffing levels," Mr Catton said.
The MPs sharply criticised the NHS and ministers for failures in workforce planning, contributing to a 24% increase in spending on agency staff by acute trusts between 2012-13 and 2014-15.
The increasingly global nature of software development and the increasing diversity in the information systems (IS) workforce have led to failures arising from inadequate understanding of cultural influences on IS design and development.
Even in systems undergoing significant administrative decentralization, there is often a disjunction between formal responsibilities and requisite resources to meet minimum specified standards – a classic recipe for workforce frustration and for the failure of decentralization reforms [ 36].
Notably, 4121 students are not expected to enter the public workforce either because of their failure to graduate (1067) or because they graduate but will seek employment elsewhere (3054) (Table 2).
