The basic proposal 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. In the author´s viewpoint, training and productivity are strongly correlated concepts....
ILO/Cinterfor Publications
The editorial production is an important form of dissemination of knowledge to share analysis and research on innovation and development of the main topics of vocational training.
ILO/Cinterfor testifies, through its books, publications, manuals and notes, the evolution of vocational training in America and the world.
Mertens, Leonard
Training for decent work - 2001
OIT/Cinterfor
It may call the attention that decency and work will join together as a new compound, when, not so far, the expression "a working man" was synonym of a "a decent person". What has happened since then so as to be necessary , in the threshold of a new millennium, "create a paradigm of...
OIT/Cinterfor
In Latin America and the Caribbean, training has characteristic and original traits that differentiate it from what can exist in other regions of the world. This is evident both in its history and in the present of its institutional geography, as well as in the concepts and...
Mertens, Leonard
The concept of labour competence emerged in the 1980s in certain industrialized countries, particularly in those which were finding it difficult to link the training system to the needs of manufacturing industry. The problems experienced in these countries were not only quantitative; in...
OIT/Cinterfor
In this document, an attempt is being made at a first approach to these questions; gathered together are the experiences of vocational training agencies, accumulated over these many years, as well as the contributions of Ministries of Labour in the definition of public policies and...
OIT/Cinterfor
Ducci, María Angélica
This study was commissioned as part of a World Bank program of research and policy analysis on vocational and technical education and training in developing countries. Launched in 1988, the study was supported by the World Bank, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische...
