Description
A shortage of critical skills, especially amongst the black population, is seen as a key impediment to the growth of the economy as a whole, as well as to the growth of individual companies. In addition, skills development practice today is highly complex compared to the way it was ten years ago. This new level of complexity has been dictated by four challenging skills development imperatives – in other words, the goals of skills development interventions are to deliver:
- Job competence development
- Affirmative action
- Succession planning
- Broad-based black economic empowerment
In this book we have attempted to provide information and tools for the skills development practitioner which we hope will maximise his/her capacity to deliver on skills development imperatives.
Most of the documents in this handbook are based on personal experience and are the original work of the authors. Others are from websites of South African Government Departments, which are understood to be public domain documents that are not subject to copyright laws. The tools/documents are also available from the publisher’s website.
About the Author/s
Elaine Folscher received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and her Honours in Psychology from the University of South Africa. Elaine is registered with the South African Board of Personnel Practitioners as a Chartered HR Practitioner and is a certified Skills Development Facilitator.
Working as a self-employed human resources consultant and skills development facilitator for the past ten years, Elaine consults to companies on a wide range of human capital issues, specialising in Employment Equity, Skills Development and Black Economic Empowerment. Elaine has published several articles on these topics over the years.
Linda Chonco graduated from the University of Natal with Honours in Psychology. She also holds a Social Science degree and Higher Education Diploma from Rhodes University. She is a certified Skills Development Facilitator, Assessor, Moderator and Auditor, and holds an Advanced Facilitation certificate. She is passionate about the transformation of the education, training and development landscape.
Linda has worked for the Transport SETA where she gathered a wealth of experience in quality assurance, monitoring and learnership management. She has trained Skills development facilitators countrywide.
