workforce:

… a labor force less the number of people in it that are not employed, i.e., the aggregate of all workers known to be on the job in a location; the count or projection of the number of people working in an defined geographic area.

Workforce development is an improvement process. The website of EMSI (Economic Modeling Specialists Inc.), Moscow, ID has an article titled Emergence of Workforce Development: Definition, Conceptual Boundaries, and Implications. It points out a definition of workforce development by Bob Giloth of the The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD as follows: Giloth’s definition (2000) comes closest to that proposed definition, but still takes as its central focus job training and education for workers rather than a broader range of human performance interventions (source of quote).

Elevating the status of the underemployed as well as the preparation of new candidates for job opportunities are just as much a part of workforce development as addressing issues of unemployed workers. Educators and trainers are contributors to workforce development in locations seeking economic development as indicated in the case study report: Do You Know the Way to Self-Sufficiency?

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