Fundamentals of Business

Apparent Shortages and Multitudes of Skills

7.1.4 Apparent Shortages and Multitudes of Skills

The Programming Wisdom Centre has identified a possible conundrum whereby there may be a skills shortage from the employer's perspecti perspective ve but not the employee's perspective perspective. This can happen when many "sub-skills" are involved in the selection process, such as requirements for multiple programming languages and computer tools often found in technical job ads. The phenomenon may account for seemingly contradictory complaints from both large companies and technical professionals regarding visa worker quotas.

The theory suggests that the more skills that are involved, the higher the gap between primary matches and secondary matches. Combing the globe for candidates allegedly increases the chances of a better match. However, it may reduce the chance of a citizen being hired even though on the average their skills are on par. In other words, having a wider choice reduces the chances of a citizen being the best candidate due to probability field increase alone rather than lack of skills on the citizen's part.

7.1.5 Minorities

A minority or subordinate group is a sociological group that does not constitute a politically dominant plurality of the total population of a given society. A sociological minority is not necessarily a numerical minority it may include any group that is disadvantaged with respect to a dominant group in terms of social status, education, employment, wealth and political power.

7.1.6 Women

Women are among the under represented group, despite the fact that, they are equal to men, they do face discrimination of some kind.

For instance
Women in industry and commerce face glass ceilings unfair dismissals from their jobs by simply getting pregnant

Sexual harassment yet women are not insignificant they have a bigger role to play in any economy.