Tailor-Made Training for Industrial Sector Employees

Peter Kuna,Alena Hašková,Peter Hodál

doi:10.3390/su14042104

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Abstract

The paper deals with the topic of the further education of employees in the industrial sector. Even though Europe today has one of its most highly qualified cohorts of young graduates entering the labour market, approximately a quarter of European Union employees have significant professional skill deficits, their professional skills are much lower compared to those needed by an average worker to be fully proficient in their job. Companies must have employees who are able to quickly adapt to an ever-changing world market. That is why they need to invest in on-going employee training and development in order to both keep their employees and be successful. Academics from Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra have a long-term cooperation with the EATON company, a global leader in electrotechnical technologies. Within the framework of this cooperation, the university was asked by this company to assess courses which it offered to its own employees as well as employees of other companies from industrial production practices, and if appropriate to suggest an improved model of the tailor-made courses provided. The authors present a case study, the aim of which was to evaluate the effectiveness and the meeting of the objectives of the training carried out for the particular target groups of participants. They describe the methodology of the assessment carried out and the main findings resulting from it.

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To ensure sustainable prosperity in the market, companies in each sector need to have competent, skilled employees
“learning possibilities” in the given context has a very broad meaning. It covers the learning opportunities for academics to teach in other environments and conditions than they are used to, other target groups than they usually teach within their alma mater institutions, other topics, and so to gain new teaching experiences, to enhance their teaching competences, to become more familiar with the taught topics, to transfer the newly obtained knowledge, experiences and skills into their home institution practice, etc
There was a heterogeneity of the time preferences stated by the course attendees, who were people working at different companies and firms cooperating or having some kinds of business links with the EATON

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To ensure sustainable prosperity in the market, companies in each sector need to have competent, skilled employees. Providing tailor-made training is attractive mainly for academic researchers driven by a learning motivation to engage with industry At this point, it is necessary to mention that the term “learning possibilities” in the given context has a very broad meaning. It is necessary to mention that the term “learning possibilities” in the given context has a very broad meaning It covers the learning opportunities for academics to teach in other environments and conditions than they are used to, other target groups than they usually teach within their alma mater institutions, other topics (or other aspects of the topics which they teach within their jobs), and so to gain new teaching experiences, to enhance their teaching competences, to become more familiar with the taught topics, to transfer the newly obtained knowledge, experiences and skills into their home institution practice, etc

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