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How is the planning process connected with the actions that will achieve what has been planned?
In the analyzed methodologies, the objectives finalized to modify the number of profession in the labour market prevail, in particular through the definition of the numerous clausus in university or fixing limits to the number of posts in post-graduate schools or even limits to entrance to the labour market. In some cases, aspects connected to the professional mix, skills needed, future working conditions are taken into account to define the right objective of “quantity of professionals”.
Most of them appertain to the category “barriers to entry”: measure present in all the observed planning systems, but in many cases these initiatives flank other type of actions which directly intervene on actual HWF.
Concerning the process of achieving the set target, aspects common to the different experiences, seem to be two:
- a solid technical analysis supported by a certain amount of data and, in most cases, by a quantitative, and sometimes also qualitative method;
- a sharing of scenarios, context, interpretative lectures through the involvement of a series of stakeholders, to reach social “commitment” to the technical proposal.
This double decisional support allow the decision maker (policy maker) to take decisions with a higher degree of assurance and with a lower degree of conflict.
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