Better Use of Skills in the Workplace
Why It Matters for Productivity and Local Jobs
This joint OECD-ILO report provides a comparative analysis of case studies focusing on improving skills use in the workplace across eight countries. The examples provide insights into the practical ways in which employers interact with government services and policies at the local level. They highlight the need to build policy coherence across employment, skills, economic development and innovation policies, and underline the importance of ensuring that skills utilisation is built into policy development thinking and implementation.
Skills utilisation concerns the extent to which skills are effectively applied in the workplace to maximise workplace and individual performance. It involves a mix of policies including work organisation, job design, technology adaptation, innovation, employee-employer relations, human resource development practices and business-product market strategies. It is often at the local level that the interface of these factors can best be addressed.
Investing in employee skills at the local level through Viet Nam's score programme
In a rapidly evolving economic landscape, the wood processing industry in Viet Nam has emerged as a sector in need of skills development to boost productivity, compete with international rivals and promote sustainable growth. This case study analyses the implementation of a skills development programme to boost organisational capital and enhance productivity in the wood processing cluster in Dong Nai Province.