Abstract
Purpose: The main objective of the paper is on assessing the global aerospace industry as well as Indian scenario, and attempts to assess the skill gaps and training needs of Indian aerospace industry. Design/methodology/approach: The study is qualitative in nature, and employs wide array of qualitative tools which includes desktop study, focus group interviews and secondary sources of information. Around 10 focus groups were used in the study, with each focus group having a minimum of 6 members of experts in the aerospace and allied industries. The study evolved into a 2 staged one, with the first study elucidating the growing importance and potential of aerospace industry, justifying the significance to take forward the second part of the study. And the second study specifically focuses on skill gaps and training needs.Findings and Originality/value: The Study yields varied results on existing generic expectations of aerospace industry, specific needs of aerospace industry, identification of aerospace job categories unique to aerospace industry, key issues of training in Indian scenario and recommendations. The paper in summary reflects the current scenario of aerospace industry potentials for India and its likely impact on skills gap and training needs.Practical implications: Skills gap is a significant gap between an organization’s current capabilities and the skills it needs to achieve its goals. As a number of Global forecasts project, India as an emerging aviation market, the skill gaps in this sector is predicted to be huge and necessitates the study on assessing the skill gaps and its allied training needs.Originality/value: The Study is highly original and first one of its kind in reflecting the current situation of the skills gap and training needs in Indian Aerospace industry. The focus group interviews were conducted with the experts at various levels in the industyr without any bias yielding valid and realtime data for the research.
Highlights
Communities, states, regions, and entire nations pay a heavy price when they cannot find or equip workers with the right skills for critical jobs
Low-skills workers will be in least demand at 10 per cent, a shortage of 90 to 95 million. It is the point at which an organization can no longer grow or remain competitive because it cannot fill critical jobs with employees who have the right knowledge, skills, and abilities
The American Society for Training & Development shows that leadership and executive skills, managerial and supervisory skills, and profession or industry-specific skills are ranked as the highest areas for skills gaps (ASTD, 2012)
Summary
Communities, states, regions, and entire nations pay a heavy price when they cannot find or equip workers with the right skills for critical jobs. Low-skills workers will be in least demand at 10 per cent, a shortage of 90 to 95 million. It is the point at which an organization can no longer grow or remain competitive because it cannot fill critical jobs with employees who have the right knowledge, skills, and abilities. According to the job projections, the 30 occupations with the fastest rates of growth will each increase by more than 29 percent from 2008 to 2018 (Alan Lacey & Wright, 2009). Seventeen of these are professional and related occupations, seven of which are in the healthcare practitioners and technical occupations occupational group. Other factors include regulatory change, the advent of new technology, and procedures and the migration of skilled Indian resources to other growth markets, the gulf
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