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Alcouffe, Alain; Kammoun, Souhaila . Enfoque económico de las competencias de la firma. Hacia una síntesis de las teorías neoinstitucionales y evolucionistas. (Economic approach to firm's competences. Towards a synthesis of neoinstitutionalist and evolutionist theories). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. n.154, 2003.
This is a virtually theoretical article. It has the purpose of placing the issue of competencies in the heart of the firm's theories. Focused on the analysis on neoinstitutional and evolutionist theories, it seeks to prove that competency-based economy is a synthesis of both theoretical constructs.

Amargós, Oscar . Empresas innovadoras y formación para el trabajo: la experiencia de las firmas galardonadas con los premios de excelencia industrial en República Dominicana. (Innovative enterprises and training for work: The experience of the firms awarded with the industrial excellence awards in Dominican Republic). In: Labarca, Guillermo. (Coord.) Economic reforms and training. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO; GTZ; ECLAC, 2003.
This document studies the growth of the electronic industry that operates under the regime of export free trade zones; the characteristics of the workforce employed; the training demands it generates; the answers to the demands made by the national training system; and the strategies and actions of preparation of the labour force developed by enterprises in this activity sector. From the starting point of this analysis, conclusions and suggestions are made on policies related to training of the workforce employed by this industry.

Brú , Enrique . Empresa humanizada: trabajo decente y productividad. (The humanized company: decent work and productivity). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Number 153. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO. n. 153, 2002.
It deals with the close relationship between the concepts of productivity and decent work. Through the analysis of processes and mechanisms of productivity improvement and economic growth, both of countries and enterprises, the author arrives at the conclusion that productivity and decent work are two links of the same chain and they both affect each other.

Büchter, Karin . Reglas para detectar la necesidad de cualificaciones en empresas. (Rules to detect qualification needs in enterprises). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. n. 154, 2003.
This paper is an insightful approach on the complex issue of detecting qualification needs of enterprises. The emphasis is placed on the fact that such activity is a process of social construction where all the actors of productive units need to play an active role. It is an interesting conceptualisation of the enterprise as a social system.

Casanova, Fernando. Vocational training institutions at the service of productive networks: three cases of good practices. In: Local development, productive networks and training: alternative approaches to training and work for young people. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2004.
Description and analysis of three cases in Latin America that illustrate the contributions that vocational training centres and institutions can make to local or regional strategies of economic development.

Hualde, Alfredo . Aprendizaje e industria maquiladora. Análisis de las maquiladoras de la frontera del norte de México. (Learning and maquila industries. Analysis of the maquila workers of the North Mexican border). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. n.154, 2003.
This is mainly an empirical paper that describes, in a concise and analytical way, the most significant results of a research on the training process of different kinds of workers employed in the maquila industry in the North Mexican border.

Hualde, Alfredo . Formación educativa y formación en la empresa: un balance sobre las maquiladoras de la frontera mexicana. (Educational training and training in the enterprise: a reflection upon the in bond industry of the Mexican border). In: Labarca, G. (Coord.) Economic reforms and training. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO; GTZ; ECLAC , 2003.

Kunin, Teodoro . Innovar en la empresa y en la educación. Condición necesaria para el desarrollo. (To Innovate in Enterprises and Education. A Necessary Condition for Development). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. n. 154, 2003.
The article was originally written for a conference given by Teodoro Kunin where the position of the Uruguayan Chamber of Industries was stated with regards to a series of topics such as education, quality and innovation in companies.

Labarca, Guillermo (Coord). Formación y empresa. (Training and enterprise)Montevideo: Cinterfor/OIT, 1999.

Leite, Marcia de Paula . Nuevas tecnologías organizacionales y la demanda de recursos humanos en el sector automotor brasileño. (New organisational technologies and human resources demand in the Brazilian automobile sector). In: Labarca, Guillermo. (Coord.) Economic reforms and training. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO; GTZ, ECLAC, 2003.

Martínez Espinoza, Eduardo.   Experiencias de alianzas estratégicas Estado-empresas. (Experiences on State-enterprise strategic alliances). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. n. 142, 1998.
This document is a summary report on a series of case studies developed by ILO's Training Policies and Systems Branch (POLFORM) about strategic alliance experiences between the State and enterprises in order to tackle vocational training worldwide. The research programme run by POLFORM aims at stimulating further and better cooperation between public and private sectors in the field of vocational training, with the purpose of increasing relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability of the joint effort to train human resources for employment.

Martínez Espinoza, Eduardo.  La formación profesional en una economía moderna. (Vocational training in a modern economy). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. Nº 154, 2003.
The article deals with the different dimensions of the relationship between training and the economic performance of enterprises and countries, mainly through topics such as productivity, competitiveness and labour market.

Mertens, Leonard. Ten years of SIMAPRO in the sugar industry: evaluation and perspectives. Seventh National Meeting of SIMAPRO (System for the Measurement and Improvement of Productivity) and Decent Work on Sugar Refineries. CINTERFOR/ILO, Guadalajara (Jal), 12-13 May, 2005.

Mertens, Leonard. Training, productivity and labour competencies in organisations: concepts, methodologies and experiences. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 2002. (Training Features, 15)
The purpose 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. Training and productivity are, according to the author, concepts which are closely related. If increasing productivity implies working in a more intelligent manner, but not necessarily harder, then it is understood that it is not possible to increase productivity in enterprises unless training actions are developed for workers in the company. It relates the concept of training with the approaches on knowledge management and learning organisations where training is provided to all members of the organisation. Management modalities and instruments of successful training experiences at enterprises in Latin America and the Caribbean are analysed. To do so, specific experiences of methodologies applied in enterprises in Mexico and the Dominican Republic are included.

Patrone, Alessandro . Metodología de formación flexible para pequeños empresarios latinoamericanos. (Flexible training methodology for small Latin American entrepreneurs). Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 1997.
Training small entrepreneurs poses some problems with a degree of complexity that forces to devise and implement diverse and flexible training actions: different educational levels require approaches on simpler or more elementary concepts; little time availability to follow courses forces the election of methodologies that allow to take the most out of timetables and a training schedule designed according to the specific needs of actors.

Régnier, Karla.; Caruso, Luiz Antonio Cruz; Tigre, Paulo Bastos. Pesquisa e desenvolvimento no SENAI: impactos na indústria e na educaçào profissional. Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO; CNI/SENAI, 2001.
This publication is the result of a field study that seeks to bring attention to an outstanding change in the range of action of SENAI in the nineties, such as the articulation between research and development with teaching activities and enterprises' competitiveness. The virtuous circle that stems from the articulation between research and teaching can be considered to be the basis for the construction of a vocational training model that focuses on the processes of technological transfer.

Ruffier, Jean. Productive efficiency: how factories work. (Tools for change) Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 1998.
This work is placed at the intersection of sociology, economy and engineering science and it provides a new type of analysis based on a series of studies developed in all continents by an international research team. It rejects the option of an economic war fought by everyone against everyone and it introduces some instruments for those who want to be the creators of new wealth. Finally, it shows that a modern productive system is nourished by relationships that go beyond the company's scope. It forces us to rethink production bonds.

Silveira, Sara . El rol de la capacitación empresarial en los procesos de reconversión empresarial. (The role of business training in the processes of business retraining). In: Labarca, Guillermo (Coord.) Training for Work: public or private? Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO; GTZ; ECLAC, 2001.
This paper takes up the methodology of case studies on business training with the purpose of understanding the priorities, options, procedures and resources of the enterprise to ensure that workers have the knowledge required by their commercial and technological needs.

Silveira, Sara . El rol de la formación profesional y técnica en la promoción y fortalecimiento de la responsabilidad social del sector privado. (The role of vocational and technical training in the promotion and strengthening of the social responsibility of the private sector). Inter-american Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Montevideo, Cinterfor/ILO. n. 154, 2003.
It describes the articulation strategies of Formujer Programme with the entrepreneurial sector and the local productive and social sector in the countries where it has been implemented. With that aim, the author analyses three intervention experiences of the Programme which account for the results of the conceptual and methodological approaches of Formujer.

Sladogna, Mónica . ¿La empresa como espacio formativo? Repensar la formación para y en el trabajo. (The enterprise as a training environment? Rethinking training for and at work). Interamerican Technical Bulletin on Vocational Training. Cinterfor/ILO. n. 154, 2003.
This paper studies the enterprise from the perspective of the demands that the labour market poses to workers in the areas of knowledge and skills. As there is a relationship of mutual binding, the author also deals with the enterprise's duty to maintain and develop the resources offered by society.

Tolentino, Arturo.  Formación y desarrollo de empresarios-gerentes de pequeñas empresas . (Training and development of entrepreneur-managers of small enterprises). Montevideo: Cinterfor/ILO, 1998.
This document has the basic purpose of providing trainers and consultants with a concise reference material on training and development of entrepreneurs-managers of small enterprises. It summarises the lessons learned by several organisations and specialists engaged in the development of a small enterprise.