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Labarca, G. (coord.)
Training and enterprises

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1999
447 p.

 

 

(Full text available only in Spanish pdf format)

 

 This is a fundamental work for the implementation of training models effectively contributing to the dissemination of relevant knowledge and competencies for the performance of occupational activities. In the future, firms and enterprises cannot confine themselves to dispensing skills to their workers. They have to structure work sequences in such a way that the whole organisation may learn from them. For that purpose, the firms’ management has to establish didactic links between workers and the organisation in a systematic manner. This book includes significant practical examples showing that the relationship between work, employment and education has specific characteristics in most Latin American countries, where there is a high rate of demographic growth side by side with a structural inadequacy of the local economies, unable to provide employment for the expanding population of active age. Added to this, there is a strong demand for education, in particular at intermediate and higher levels. Business enterprises, the scene of productive activities and consequently of occupational training, play an important educational role. They must endeavour to develop a potential intellectual capital, manage people’s knowledge and upgrade their skills. Within this process of technological and organisational change, the notion of "competency" has acquired great importance, having led to new forms of workers’ recruitment, training, promotion and remuneration. This is the result of a productive restructuring in which subcontracting of small firms by larger ones is a common feature, and occupational polyvalence and rotation a regular occurrence. New concepts concerning labour competencies play a key role in the efficiency and quality that training institutions may achieve. They must therefore be at the base of VTIs curricular design.

 

 

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