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Mertens, L.
Training, productivity and labour competencies in organisations: concepts, methodologies and experiences

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 2004
172p. (Training features, 15)

ISBN 92-9088-163-1
USD 15.00

720 kb Complete document in pdf format

 

The basic proposal of this study is to show that it is feasible and profitable to enhance the productivity and working conditions of organisations through the ongoing learning of their personnel.

In the author´s viewpoint, training and productivity are strongly correlated concepts. Considering that productivity increments result from working more intelligently rather than harder, he reasons that the productivity of enterprises cannot increase without concomitant training of the workers they employ.

Training is here envisaged in the overall perspective of the organisations, not as an isolate effort to educate individuals. It is related to approaches of knowledge management and organisational learning, wherein the concept of training is extended to the whole of the organisation.

The study analyses forms and instruments for managing training that have made possible to influence productivity and working conditions in enterprises of Latin America and the Caribbean, quoting examples of concrete experiences with methodologies tried out in enterprises of the region, specially in Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

 

CONTENTS

Foreword

1. Conceptual framework: Appoximation to a Model
a. Static Approach: Training/productivity
b. Dynamic Approach: Training/productivity

2. Organisational Training and Learning

3. Methodological Principles: Productivity Measurement and Enhancement System (ProMES) and Self-training and Assesment Guides by Competencies (STAG)
a. ProMES model
b. Self-training and Assesment Guides by Competencies

4. Application and Institutional Learning Pathways
a. ProMES in Mexico
b. Self-training and Assesment Guides by Competencies in Mexico
c. ProMES in the Dominican Republic: An integral view of productivity
d. Self-training and Assesment Guides in the Dominican Republic

5. Effects on Link-up Strategies between TVET Institutes and Organisations
a. Nature of link-up
b. Impact planning
c. The role of the organisations/enterprises
d. Application pathway
e. The role of TVET institutes in training activities
f. Some requirements TVET institutions must fulfil for the ProMES methodology and Self-training and Assesment guides proposal to succeed
g. The role of organisations in training activities
h. Costs management

6. Conclusions

Bibliography

 

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