Theme One. Competence in the Workplace: A Focus on Industry and Vocational Education. 1. Understanding the Basis for Competence Development, Jorgen Sandberg. 2. Exploring Opportunities for Collaborative Linkages in the VET Sector: A Comparative Study of VET in Australia and Japan, Christine Velde. 3. Work, Change and Competence, Stephen Billett. Theme Two. Competence in the Workplace: A Focus on Schools and Colleges. 4. The Changing Context of Business Education: Competency Requirements for the New Paradigm, Christina Yu and Christine Velde. 5. Professional Competencies: Challenges for the Tertiary Sector, Shirley Yates. 6. Employers' Perspectives of Graduate Outcomes: A Case Study of a Private College in Shanghai, Christine Velde. Theme Three. Competence in the Workplace: A Focus on Small Business and Companies. 7. Workplace Trainers in Enterprises: Merging and Emerging Areas of Practice, Roger Harris and Michele Simons. 8. Developing Entrepreneurial Competencies through Dilemna-Reconciliation, Pi-Shen Seet and Nor Hazlina Ahmad. 9. Learning Environments of Employees in Knowledge Intensive Company Units, Lennart Svensson. heme Four. Competence in the Workplace: A Focus on University and Global Contexts. 10. Intercultural Knowledge Management: A Competency Model for the Repatriation of Expatriates in the Asia-Pacific, Christine Velde. 11. Local Needs, Global Contexts: Innovation and Excellence in Teaching in theModern University. Penny Boumelha. 12. Demands for Intercultural Communicative Competence in Working- Life: Some Experiences of Swedish Higher Education Co-operation with Baltic Neighbour, Estonia, Eva Ericsson. CONCLUSION. Competence in the Workplace: A Synthesis of Issues for Reflection and Action, Christine Velde. Index.