This research
is part of a wider project: the Leonardo da Vinci
European programme, which aims at strengthening and
integrating all the actions carried out by the member
States, supporting projects of international cooperation
in the field of vocational training, with full respect
of each member's responsibility as for contents and
organization and with full respect of cultural and
linguistic diversities.
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| Leonardo da Vinci programme pursues three general objectives: |
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Promoting
abilities and competences, especially in young people,
by means of starter vocational training at all
levels, resorting - among other things - to vocational
training and apprenticeship combined with work,
in order to promote and facilitate professional insertion
and reinsertion;
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Improving
the quality of continuous vocational training
and the access to it as well as a lifelong
acquisition of abilities and competences, in order
to increase
adaptation skills, suitable, in particular, for
nowadays technological
and organizational innovations;
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Promoting
and strengthening the contribution of vocational
training
to the innovation process,
in order to improve
competitiveness and entrepreneurial ability,
in the prospect of new occupational possibilities;
particular attention
is paid in this context to the promotion
of cooperation between vocational training and
educational structures,
universities and concerns - especially
small and medium ones - included.
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Within
Leonardo Da Vinci programme, the project called Training
Plans for Small and Medium Concerns aims at elaborating
innovatory training methods and products directed to
strengthen
the contribution of vocational training to the improvement
of the entrepreneurial ability, by promoting in small
and medium concerns a new training culture, identifying
and
motivating all the interventions in the concerns' human
resources (present and to be inserted), following a project
logic and developing skills of reading and setting up
strategies and managerial results on the concerns'
behalf. Moreover, by means of the creation of a training
net between
School and small and medium concerns we mean to elicit
interventions directed to facilitate the access to the
labour market, both in the field of curricular school
education and in the training of disadvantaged subjects
(young people
without working experience, workers with obsolete competences,
women, handicapped people), inserted in training initiatives
directed to (re)qualification and personalized on the
basis of the needs of concerns, with the aid of schools
and concerns'
structures. |
| Objectives: |
Carrying out a systematic analysis of the realities of
the concerns, operating in the identified sectors and in
the operative contexts of their partners in order to learn: |
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Necessary
procedure to identify the concern's training needs
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Possible
procedures to plan training actions
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Procedures
and time needed to plan the insertion of professional
figures in the firm
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Necessary
procedures to find "training
packs" and
professional figures suitable for their realization
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| The questionnaire |
SECTION
A - Personal data:
In this section we analysed the interviewee's characteristics:
degree and competences (which ones and how they were
acquired). The aim is that of collocating the position
of interviewee within the firm. |
SECTION
B - Information on the firm:
In this section we analysed some data concerning the
firm in which the research had been carried out:
number of
employees, type of employment and of contract, evolution
of the employees' level (increased - unchanged - decreased),
the presence of recruitment of non-qualified operators.
The aim of this section is that of classifying the firm
within the sample by means of the selected indicators. |
SECTION
C - Information on the customers:
In this section the firm involved is classified on the
basis of the wideness and the geographical dislocation
of the customers in order to weigh the complexity of
the problems deriving from the reality of operating in
heterogeneous and diversified contexts. |
SECTION
D - Information on the competition:
Which kinds of contacts (if any) exist with competing firms?
This indicator can be correlated with a certain corporate
planning ability and with its broadmindedness towards
innovation. |
SECTION
E - Relationships with Sector Associations:
Which associations (if any) does the interviewed firm join?
This question is asked in order to identify in the firm
a higher or lower sensitivity towards the resources and
chances offered by sector associations. |
SECTION
F - Promotional Aspects:
In this section the interviewee is asked if the firm carries
out promo-advertising actions and, in case it does, how
(fairs, workshops, generic advertising, etc.). Thanks
to this question we can have some information on the
firm's will to propose itself on the market following
an in an expansionistic prospetc. |
SECTION
G - Expression of needs:
This is the richest and most complex section of the questionnaire:
the following aspects are analysed: the firm's sensitivity
towards the objectives of the project; the ability
and the way of identifying formative needs; the course
of
action followed by the staff to acquire competences;
the quality of the relationships with the territory.
On the contrary, other questions do not aim at obtaining
specific information, but aim above all at arousing
in the interviewee a reflection on the topics of the
project.
Almost all the questions have a choice of answers in
a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 represents the lowest value
(of agreement, usefulness, frequency, importance...)
and
5 the highest one. |
