Book chapter 2019

Cooperation of Education and Enterprises in Improving Professional Competences - Analysis of Needs

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
Conference · pp. 155-168
Abstract

Enterprises achieve success in the labour market thanks to the implementation and use of adequate strategies, but also thanks to adequate resources management and proper relationships with the surrounding. The main resources currently most searched for by employers are human resources. In the market situation with scarcity of employees, where their quantitative and qualitative structure is insufficient for the enterprises to realise their tasks, the key problem for businesses is to find ways to search for suitable employees. In the situation of insufficient resources of suitable employees, enterprises should develop, in a planned and systemic manner, methods of obtaining and preventive provision of necessary human resources in connection with the business development plans. Within the developed personnel management strategies, the enterprises should also define the subjects to cooperate with in this area, as well as plan the rules of this cooperation. This paper discusses the problem of evaluating forms of supporting schools by enterprises, i.e. which tools and means of communications should be best used to obtain employees with best suited competences. It also ponders the question which forms of cooperation should schools develop in order to improve the quality of education and to increase the probability of matching students to the needs of current labour market. Research verification included the analysis of the number of businesses offering a given form of support and the average evaluation of importance of this form. © 2019, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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vocational education and training Labour market Competence management

Index Keywords

Employment Human resource management Commerce Vocational education and training professional competence Labour market personnel management Resource management Competence management Business-development plans Cooperation of education and enterprise Management strategies Market situation
Author Affiliations
Politechnika Poznanska, Poznan, WP, Poland
Funding & Acknowledgements
European Commission, EC
In research up to 2017 (observation and case study), 25 types of forms of supporting schools offered by enterprises have been identified. They are presented in Table 1. There were two stages of identification of these forms of support. Authors of the article are part of a team of Poznan University of Technology, which realises a long-standing project ‘Time for Professionals BIS – Professional Great Poland’ – CZBIS (1st edition 2012–2015, 2nd edition 2015–2022). The project is financed by the EU, with Regional Government of Wielkopolska Voivodeship as the leading partner. This Project aims at creating a steady, functioning educational-economic network [29, 30]. In order to bring the model network closer to reality, activities were limited to one region. It is Wielkopolska Voivodeship (Poland), with more than 3.5 million inhabitants. Contacts between enterprises and schools showed that there are various forms of supporting schools, with several of them repeated frequently. Information concerning these forms of support was organised and tentatively verified in 2017 together with cooperating enterprises. Based on a case study, models of cooperation between enterprises and schools were developed [31–33].
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