Reinforcement of Workforce Training Programs—Insights from Pilot Testing Process to Enhance Greening Practices in Enterprises

Bogdan Fleacă, Gheorghe Militaru and Elena Fleacă ()
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Bogdan Fleacă: Department of Entrepreneurship and Management, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania
Gheorghe Militaru: Department of Entrepreneurship and Management, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania
Elena Fleacă: Department of Entrepreneurship and Management, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, Business Engineering and Management, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 23, 1-19

Abstract: As industries and organizations become greener, the demand for workers with green expertise will rise, making education, training, and skill development for the green transition more essential than ever. With an emphasis on local green skills shortages, our study focused primarily on qualitative insights from a specific sample of industry practitioners to explore emerging trends in green skills training, providing effective steps in curriculum improvements for teaching and learning in support of greening jobs and enterprises. It addresses the increasing demand for green skills in the workplace and offers practical insights on how to reinforce the workforce training process, through needs assessments, curriculum objectives, specific learning outcomes and targeted green skills, training components, and working methodologies. The feedback from the pilot process highlights the strengths of the training curriculum in enhancing green practices in enterprises, particularly in terms of content quality, communication methods and online interaction, workload and the practical application of green knowledge, and feedback mechanisms. Our study provides several theoretical and practical implications for various stakeholders (i.e., researchers, academics, trainers, and practitioners) interested in advancing the adoption of green practices. Also, universities and training institutions can benefit from this study by incorporating its findings into their curricula, thereby improving the relevance and impact of training and education programs.

Keywords: green and digital transformation; complex skills development; education and training curriculum program; sustainability education; curriculum design; quality education; process improvements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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