Employment and Competencies of Employees in the Energy Sector in Poland

Marzena Kacprzak (), Agnieszka Król, Izabela Wielewska, Anna Milewska and Zbigniew Ciekanowski
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Marzena Kacprzak: Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska Street 166, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Agnieszka Król: Institute of Management and Technical Sciences, Warsaw Management University, Kawęczyńska Street 36, 03-772 Warsaw, Poland
Izabela Wielewska: Faculty of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Bydgoszcz University of Science and Technology, Kaliskiego Street 7, 85-796 Bydgoszcz, Poland
Anna Milewska: Institute of Economics and Finance, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska Street 166, 02-787 Warsaw, Poland
Zbigniew Ciekanowski: Faculty of Economics, John Paul II University of Applied Sciences in Biala Podlaska, Sidorska Street 95/97, 21-500 Biala Podlaska, Poland

Energies, 2022, vol. 15, issue 19, 1-11

Abstract: Employment and the competencies of employees in the energy sector are coming into particular prominence in economies around the world. It is one of the few sectors positively affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, a significant global change in the awareness of society occurred in favor of increasing pro-health and pro-environmental activities, which can be seen in the green transformation. Poland can also boast such changes in recent years, as evidenced by the dynamic development of renewable energy sources (boom for photovoltaics) and the increase in prosumption. Correlated with this is the increase in demand for employees with specific competencies, the so-called multi-competencies that are a compilation of technical, business, and soft and hard competencies, as well as interdisciplinary ones. The paper emphasizes the need to better adjust the education system to the real needs of the labor market in a turbulent environment with the use of the Sectoral Qualifications Framework in Energy, developed in cooperation with stakeholders from the industry. Therefore, the authors analyzed the employment structure in the energy sector in Poland, with particular emphasis on the factors and conditions of this structure and made an attempt to identify and create a competency profile of employees in this area. For the purposes of this article, two key research problems were formulated: What are the key competencies of employees in the energy sector? How is employment changing in this area? The following research hypothesis was also put forward: The transformation of the energy sector towards green energy affects the increase in employment in this area and the increase in the demand for soft competencies. The analysis was based on statistical data, reports, job advertisements, and a review of the results of empirical research to date.

Keywords: energy; green transformation; green energy; energy transformation; low-carbon economy; competencies; sectoral qualifications framework for energy; employment; labor market in Poland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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