Workforce skills gaps analysis under security challenges: business needs and regional resilience – a case study of Lviv region during wartime
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Data wydania
2025
Tytuł czasopisma
ISSN
1899-6264
eISSN
2451-0718
Tytuł tomu
ISBN
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Wydawca
Oficyna Wydawnicza AFM Uniwersytetu Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego w Krakowie
Abstrakt
This study investigates workforce skills gaps amid security challenges caused by Russian
military aggression against Ukraine, aiming to identify critical competency deficiencies
for enhancing regional economic resilience. The research employed a triangulated methodology
combining desk research, quantitative employer surveys, and qualitative focus
groups with employers and internally displaced persons.
Findings reveal significant transformations in the Lviv region’s labor market due to
mobilization, forced migration, and business relocation. Most employers identify the
largest gaps in professional-functional and professional-technical skills. Increased competition,
accelerated digitization, and heightened security risks have generated growing
demand for client orientation, document management, and business security competencies.
Digital skills gaps (computer and office software proficiency, CRM and ERP systems
skills) closely follow professional-functional deficiencies. These gaps directly impact regional
economic security and resilience.
Based on these findings, we propose targeted recommendations for: identifying priority
groups for retraining; determining professional groups requiring qualification improvement;
developing security-focused retraining programs; accelerating employment
processes for displaced persons; and legislative amendments to strengthen labor market
resilience under wartime conditions.
Opis
Słowa kluczowe
labor market security, skills gaps, workforce resilience, economic security, wartime employment, internally displaced persons, regional development, Lviv region, Ukraine
Źródło
Bezpieczeństwo. Teoria i Praktyka 2025, nr 1, s. 191-207.