On a related note, brain bank, brain trust, and brain circulation are also in vogue. You are welcome to check this out:
http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199532605 Anthony On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Marvin Gandall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anthony D'Costa posted: > > *Silicon India >> Talent crunch in realty industry forcing manpower import* >> *Date:* Thursday, June 26, 2008 >> New Delhi: Three years ago, when Singaporean Jeff Teng was approached by a >> headhunter for an architect's job in India, he turned it down. But a year >> later, he decided to join the "India-calling fever" - as Teng puts it - to >> work with Ansals API at a "lucrative package". >> >> "I was reluctant at first, but the opportunities and salaries offered by >> them (Indian developers) are amazing," Teng told IANS. >> >> Teng's is not a solitary case. As demand for specialised professionals >> soars >> in India, a host of project planners, civil engineers, architects and >> landscape architects have begun flocking here from countries such as >> Singapore, Thailand, Australia and New Zealand on handsome salaries. >> > ================================ > And: > > Beyond brain drain > The Economist > Jun 24th 2008 > > Human capital increasingly votes with its feet > > THERE has been much wailing and gnashing of teeth lately, especially in > America, about the harm globalisation causes to workers, who are > increasingly worried that their hard-learned skills will become obsolete as > their jobs are shipped overseas. > > But globalisation is also proving an exciting opportunity for a growing > number of workers who are seizing the chance to work abroad. This is not > confined to the stereotypical blue-collar migrant worker, such as the > Mexican builder in America or Polish plumber in Britain; it includes a > rapidly increasing number of highly-educated "knowledge workers" too. > > The extent to which human capital is voting for globalisation with its feet > is made clear by two surveys published on June 24th by Manpower, a global > employment-services firm. The first, "Relocating for Work," polled over > 31,000 workers; the second, "Borderless Workforce," surveyed 28,000 > employers, each in 27 countries. (While Manpower's overall conclusion about > the globally mobile workforce is enthusiastic, its report on these surveys > recognises the dark side of mobility by highlighting two > corporate-citizenship initiatives that the firm supports, one to combat > human trafficking, the other to provide education for refugee children.) > > Some 78% of the workers surveyed (most of whom have professional skills or > qualifications) said they would consider moving to get a good job-some > 40.5% > would move permanently. While many of them would only relocate within their > home country, others were open to moving to countries nearby, and some > 36.9% > said they would consider going anywhere in the world. > > Although the employers surveyed say that the most sought after category of > worker is "labourer"-thanks to an infrastructure-building boom, especially > in developing countries-the next few categories are highly skilled: > engineers, then production operators, technicians, IT staff and sales > representatives. > > Educated workers are more willing to relocate. Of those surveyed who had > less than a high-school education, 62.2% were open to moving for a job, and > 28.4% had actually done so. Among those with an undergraduate degree, that > rose to 85% and 46.5%, and for those with a masters degree, to 87.4% and > 60.7%. Their motivation? Better pay, obviously, cited by 81.8%, and career > advancement (73.6%), but also the opportunity to experience a different > culture (51.4%) and learn another language (47.4%). > > Employers say that China is their favourite country from which to recruit > foreign workers, and India comes third, which will no doubt play to the > worst fears of the economic nativists in rich countries. But second on the > list of source countries is America, with Britain fourth, followed by > Germany, Japan, Spain, France and Canada. The only other > less-than-fully-developed country on the list is Poland, in tenth place. > > Despite building walls on its southern border and reducing the number of > visas for foreign employees, America remains workers' destination of > choice, > followed by Britain, Spain, Canada and Australia. The United Arab Emirates, > particularly Dubai, is the top emerging economy on the list, in sixth > place. > > The shift of workers abroad used to be called "brain drain". But Manpower > argues that this scarcely captures the complexity today's increasingly > globalised "market for talent". It proposes a lexicon of no less than six > categories of brain mobility. > > Along with brain drain, which is when a country loses more educated brains > than it can replace, there is the even more negative "brain waste": when > people go abroad to do work that pays better but is less skilled than what > they would do at home. > > "Brain export" is the more positive version of drain and waste. This > happens > when educated workers leave their home countries but more than pay for > their > absence through remittances, technology transfer and boosting their native > countries' workforce when they return. > > "Brain globalisation" is simply the recognition that international mobility > of skilled human capital is now an integral part of life in multinational > companies and the global economy. "Brain circulation" refers to skilled > workers moving between countries to ply their trade. "Brain exchange" is > when multinational firms move skilled workers between their operations in > different countries-having cosmopolitan workers, especially executives, is > increasingly seen as a competitive advantage in leading global companies. > > Your columnist can't help thinking that Manpower should have used its > considerable brain power to come up with a few phrases that did not include > the word brain. But the firm's point is well made. In today's global > economy, you cannot have too many brains-especially brains on planes. > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. 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