Occupational Bridging

Workshop Leader:
Heather Menzies,
Researcher/ Writer

Rapid change necessitates an evolutionary and comprehensive approach to training and employment. Occupational bridging, or job redesign is seen as one such approach. In it, the employer allows for the redundancy of job functions, rather than the redundancy of people. Possible elements of this approach could be apprenticeship programs, cooperative work/study programs, and affirmative-action programs. As a result, employees would grow with the evolution of job content and with increased emphasis on their particular skills: a bonus for both employer and employee.

Action:

• Women's organizations should set up job banks and a clearing house of resources for working women.

• Women should set up private courses for teenagers, geared towards top administrative skills.

• Women need to start their own businesses.

• Women must participate increasingly in active politics.

• Women must increase network activities, in order to share their knowledge and experience, strategize, unite in investing, etc.

Women, Computers & Change: The Impact of Computers on
Large Organizations

Workshop leader:
Zorianna Hyworon, Executive
Director, Information Management,
Dept. of Finance, Manitoba

Women must learn to view the computer as just another tool, which is precisely what it is. Women have developed attitudes and strengths, which must now be put to work in the area of administration. By participating in corporate decision-making, women influence technological advance and direct it towards the realization of their views of society.