Thiess Kentz builds workforce skills
Purpose – Evaluates the advanced‐entry adult‐apprenticeship scheme that Thiess Kentz construction company in Australia introduced in partnership with group‐training organization East Coast Apprenticeships and public training provider Skills Tech Australia. Design/methodology/approach – Focuses on the recruitment and selection of apprentices; the profile for selection; the recognition of prior learning; the independent test program; initial deployment to site; and what happens on completion of the program. Findings – Suggests that trained adult apprentices with previous experience can be more productive and loyal. Practical implications – Reveals that the apprenticeship scheme creates and maintains a guaranteed element in the company's skilled workforce, identifies and positions a new generation of supervisors and encourages loyalty to the company among people who have benefited from the program. Social implications – Argues that the scheme has widespread application across all trades and is being recognized as a new pathway to qualification and potentially a major solution to skill shortages across the world. Emphasizes that, in order to address skills shortages for international construction, training methods must be improved. Highlights a possible way forward. Originality/value – Illustrates how a training partnership has sought to provide necessary and increasingly scarce skills for an international construction organization through an original apprenticeship scheme.
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2010
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Human Resource Management International Digest. - Emerald Group Publishing Limited, ISSN 1758-7166, ZDB-ID 2082534-1. - Vol. 18.2010, 1, p. 14-16
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Publisher: |
Emerald Group Publishing Limited |
Subject: | Apprenticeships | Construction industry | Adult education | Skills | Training |
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