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Received: 2021-09-18 | Accepted: 2021-11-29 | Published: 2021-12-30

Title

Peculiarities of employee professional development in the world, European Union and Latvia

Abstract

Within this study, employee professional development is conceptually understood as a component of lifelong learning. The concepts of lifelong learning, a learning society and even a learning economy are popular and theoretically justified as necessary prerequisites for the competitiveness and the economic performance of countries in the modern world. The problem is that Latvia (like most countries with low economic performance) is still not a learning society – especially compared to the countries of the European Union. In this regard, it became necessary to empirically measure the economic importance of employee professional development in the modern world in order to justify the management of lifelong learning based on the economic paradigm. For an empirical interpretation of lifelong learning and employee professional development, the author used the Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI) and indicators of the economic performance of the world’s countries for the period from 2018 to 2020. Applying four methods of quantitative data analysis – correlation analysis, regression analysis, comparison of means and discriminant analysis, the author proved the following: in the modern world, employee development is mainly a factor, but also an indicator of competitiveness and economic performance of countries, since significant investments are required to implement employee professional development. Nevertheless, the sustainable management of lifelong learning and the self-motivation of employees helps to create a learning society not only based on material investment, but also through the development of a learning culture.

Keywords

employee professional development, economic importance, lifelong learning, learning society, sustainable management, European Union, Latvia

JEL classifications

C18 , D22 , E70

URI

http://jssidoi.org/ird/article/86

DOI

DOI 10.9770/IRD.2021.3.4(6)

HAL

HAL hal-03584049

Pages

80-100

Funding

This research was supported by the project,which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchanges ES H2020-MSCA-RISE-2014 CLUSDEVMED (2015-2019) Grant Agreement Number 645730730

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Authors

Jukšs, Valdis

Daugavpils University, Daugavpils, Latvia https://du.lv

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Journal title

Insights into Regional Development

Volume

Number

Issue date

December 2021

Issue DOI

DOI 10.9770/ird.2021.3.4

ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)

Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

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References

Aspin, D.; Chapman, J. 2007. Lifelong Learning Concepts and Conceptions. Aspin D. (ed.). Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning. Springer, 17-34.