Publications

Training and productivity. SYMAPRO Guide: participate - learn - innovate - improve. - 2007
Mertens, Leonard
The SYMAPRO GUIDE (System for Integrated Measurement and Improvement of Productivity) is a participative proposal for knowledge management in organizations. The SYMAPRO helps the organization to generate a system that connects training with productivity in a way that is holistic,...
Quality, relevance and equity. An integrated approach to vocational training - 2006
OIT/Cinterfor
Amongst the different forms of education and learning, vocational training is the one wich is most closely linked to the world of work and production. This has led to increasingly consider vocational training and human resources development as a strategic component of both economic...
Firm and worker training in the Caribbean: a report for the World Bank - 2006
McArdle, Tom
The main objective of this publication is to examine the challenges and opportunities facing the Caribbean in promoting skills and technology with the aim of increasing productivity. Firm and worker training are expected to increase labour productivity...
The new ILO Recommendation 195. Human resources development: education, training and lifelong learning - 2006
OIT/Cinterfor
Changes in the way of production and the market structures, technological innovation, new models of organization of work, changes in the roles and actions of the State regarding education and training, added to other macrosocial processes, make it imperative to rethink the objectives and...
Quality models in vocational training and education. Analysis and complementary aspects - 2006
Patiño G., Carlos Arturo
Vocational Training Institutions (VTIs) and many educational institutions are making good progress in developing quality management systems. These are basically framed in practices derived from three internationally-recognized models. These are the ISO Standards model (especially those of...
ILO Recommendation 195. Subjects, focuses and actors of vocational training - 2005
Barretto Ghione, Hugo
It is interesting to study this new instrument for a variety of reasons. First, for a number of years, the ILO has been reviewing and updating its stance on labour standards, and the new Recommendation sheds light on this process. Second, the Recommendation contains a series of...
Learning and teaching in the Internet age. Distance learning and new technologies for vocational training - 2005
Kaplún, Gabriel
The book has been structured in the following way: The first part begins by placing the objective of this work in the intersection between vocational training, distance learning and “new technologies” (in which the distance is not such and the newest technologies are combined with old...
Local development, productive networks and training: alternative approaches to training and work for young people - 2004
Casanova, Fernando
The new local development approaches have opened up great opportunities for improvement in training and youth employment policies, which have been the subject of searching debates over the last few decades. When we consider young people not so much as a statistical category, or as a group...
A training policy model for enhancing employability and gender equity: The Formujer Programme - 2004
Programa Formujer
The purpose of the FORMUJER Programme (Programme to Strengthen Technical and Vocational Training of Low Income Women in Latin America) is to promote and strengthen the capacities of the institutions of the region to design and implement policies intended to improve the quality, relevance...
Key competencies and lifelong learning - 2004
Vargas, Fernando
Key competencies and lifelong learning: three perspectives on these subjects in Latin America and the Caribbean. Since the second half of the 1990s the labour competency approach has been spreading in the Latin American and Caribbean region, and the extraordinary capacity of the...
40 Questions on Labour Competency - 2004
Vargas, Fernando
Five years have gone by after the first electronic publishing of this document. During that time, there has been an incredible progress both in terms of conceptual formulations and the application of labour competency. This is why this publication has been made, now printed as well,...
Vocational training and labour relations - 2003
Casanova, Fernando
This publication has been prepared with the precise objective of supporting trade union training activities directed both to negotiate and participate in the management of vocational training strategies, in particular within the working places. It deals with aspects regarding the...
Gender and competency-based training: Conceptual contributions, tools and applications - 2003
Programa Formujer
Vocational and technical training policies can contribute substantively to the process of expanding opportunities and of overcoming the various manifestations of inequity, poverty and social exclusion, for which purpose the simultaneous challenge of strengthening employability of...
Training and labour legislation - 2003
Barbagelata, Héctor Hugo
Many industrial societies are undergoing a dynamic mutation caused mainly by technology, wich propels them into the era of information and communications. Changes are so speedy and dramatic,and inevitably both so creative and destructive from a social point of view, that it is impossible...
Training, productivity and decent work - 2002
Casanova, Fernando ; Galhardi, Regina ; Gamerdinger, George ; Ramírez Guerrero, Jaime ; Rodgers, Gerry ; Vargas, Fernando
The process of economic globalization has transformed the competitiveness of enterprises, of sectors or branches of activity, and of national productive systems, into one of the main -if not the most important of all- factors conditioning the economic and...

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