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Labarca, G. (coord.)
Economic Reforms and Training

Montevideo: CINTERFOR/GTZ/CEPAL, 2003.
386 p. (Tools for Change, 20)

Including bibliography
ISBN 92-9088-153-4

 

(Full text available only in Spanish pdf format)

 

How can vocational training meet the demands of human resources stemming from the transformations in the economies of the region during the last decades?

The usually proposed policies and strategies only consider one part of the demand: the one that has to do with general competencies and skills and those competencies belonging to sectors with a higher technological development, such as the electronic one and those related to productive organizations of flexible structure. But such proposals do not take into account the specific demands of sectors that operate with low-qualification workers. A one-way approximation for the design of national or regional-scope human resources strategies is one of the main causes of the shortcomings of its implementation.

This publication tackles the analysis of some particularly important sectors and enterprises which allow to view human resources training in contexts representing important trends for the future. In addition, it introduces a series of studies about Mexico inquiring about training in the sugar-growing industry, the articulation between training in the in bond industry in the northern border and the development of labour competencies in biotechnology, electronics and telecommunications. One study deals with the development of information and communication technologies in Brazil from its beginning in the seventies until today. The growth of occupations in the labour market which do not correspond to the traditional categorization of employment in terms of dependence in the productive centre inspires a study on atypical employment in Chile and, especially, on work at home. Finally, there is an analysis based on a group of innovative enterprises in Dominican Republic which were awarded a prize for their excellence and their contribution to human resources training.

 

INDEX

Presentation
María Antonia Gallart

The economic reforms and training for work
Guillermo Labarca

Organisational learning and labour competency: The experience of a number of sugar mills in Mexico
Leonard Mertens and Roberto Wilde

New organizational technologies and human resources demand in the Brazilian automobile sector
Marcia De Paula Leite

Educational training and training in the enterprise: a reflection upon the in bond industry of the Mexican border
Alfredo Hualde

The dynamic supply and demand of competencies in a sector based on knowledge in Argentina
Marta Novick, in collaboration with Martina Miravalles

Labour market and training of human resources in information technology in Brazil. Match or mismatch?
Lidia Micaela la Segre and Clevi Elena Rapkiewicz

Construction of favourable environments for the development of labour competencies in Mexico: Two sectoral studies
Mónica Casalet

Training human capital in atypical employment: The case of work at home in Chile
Cecilia Montero

Innovative enterprises and training for work: The experience of the firms awarded with the industrial excellence awards in Dominican Republic
Oscar Amargós

 

 

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