Tailor-Made Training for Industrial Sector Employees

Peter Kuna, Alena Hašková and Peter Hodál
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Peter Kuna: Department of Informatics, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia
Alena Hašková: Department of Technology and Information Technologies, Faculty of Education, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia
Peter Hodál: Upper Secondary Vocational School of Polytechnics, 953 30 Zlaté Moravce, Slovakia

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-20

Abstract: The paper deals with the topic of the further education of employees in the industrial sector. Even though Europe today has one of its most highly qualified cohorts of young graduates entering the labour market, approximately a quarter of European Union employees have significant professional skill deficits, their professional skills are much lower compared to those needed by an average worker to be fully proficient in their job. Companies must have employees who are able to quickly adapt to an ever-changing world market. That is why they need to invest in on-going employee training and development in order to both keep their employees and be successful. Academics from Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra have a long-term cooperation with the EATON company, a global leader in electrotechnical technologies. Within the framework of this cooperation, the university was asked by this company to assess courses which it offered to its own employees as well as employees of other companies from industrial production practices, and if appropriate to suggest an improved model of the tailor-made courses provided. The authors present a case study, the aim of which was to evaluate the effectiveness and the meeting of the objectives of the training carried out for the particular target groups of participants. They describe the methodology of the assessment carried out and the main findings resulting from it.

Keywords: employee further education; industrial sector employees; tailor-made training; assessment of the effectiveness of the provided education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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