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How skills development affects manufacturing’s competitive capability

How skills development affects manufacturing’s competitive capability Discusses the link between various forms of shopfloor worker competences and the ability of manufacturing plants to compete on different forms of market attractiveness. Shows how movement along a four‐level model of competence, ranging from operator proficiency to high levels of problem‐solving ability, affects a firm’s ability to support improvements in different dimensions of competitiveness. Enables firms to consider their worker competence strategies in terms of their specific competitiveness rather than in some general form of abstraction. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Integrated Manufacturing Systems Emerald Publishing

How skills development affects manufacturing’s competitive capability

Integrated Manufacturing Systems , Volume 7 (1): 7 – Feb 1, 1996

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Publisher
Emerald Publishing
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 MCB UP Ltd. All rights reserved.
ISSN
0957-6061
DOI
10.1108/09576069610108444
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Abstract

Discusses the link between various forms of shopfloor worker competences and the ability of manufacturing plants to compete on different forms of market attractiveness. Shows how movement along a four‐level model of competence, ranging from operator proficiency to high levels of problem‐solving ability, affects a firm’s ability to support improvements in different dimensions of competitiveness. Enables firms to consider their worker competence strategies in terms of their specific competitiveness rather than in some general form of abstraction.

Journal

Integrated Manufacturing SystemsEmerald Publishing

Published: Feb 1, 1996

Keywords: Competences; Competitive manufacturing; Skilled workers; Skills

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