Innovative Approaches for Technical, Methodological, and Socio-communicative Competency Development in Production Areas

Abstract

Learning processes of employees in production areas no longer end with initial training, but continues during the entire working life. Technical, methodological and socio-communicative competencies are becoming increasingly important. This paper is devoted to the question of how industrial competency development can be designed in a demographically sensitive context. In the first step, selected competencies of employees and managers of different ages in the production areas are identified. The situation-related competencies refer to the lean production principle shop floor. A competency development concept, which combines work-oriented as well as work- integrated approaches was developed. This article addresses the work-oriented approaches and demonstrates how companies can design competency development approaches for the training of technical and methodological as well as socio-communicative competencies in production areas by the example of shop floor management.