According to the top business capital trends for Mzansi, as well as globally, careers and learning took second place on the importance list. And this a big concern to Mzansi.
The 2017 Human Capital Trends Report, by auditing firm Deloitte, found that about 83% of executives worldwide have identified learning and development as being important.
Even more companies are helping workers with “always-on” learning and development programmes to reduce the critical skills gap in various sectors. This encourages staff to grow and thrive in the workplace.
Unfortunately, only 28% of Mzansi employers are fast-tracking learning and development.
About 30% of companies say they do not have clear plans, while 16% say they use short-term assignments as part of career development.
But new learning technology is already changing or replacing traditional learning systems, and many are not keeping up.
Richard Rayne, CEO of iLearn a South African learning solutions provider said: “We’re so pleased that more employers agree that workplace learning and development is fundamental to growing any organisation. But more needs to be done. Now that we’ve acknowledged what we need, we need to start enforcing what we know.”
Mzansi employers are encouraged to increase their staff development process and produce a culture of employee education.
Rayne said learnerships produce capable and efficient workers and more employers needed to encourage learning and development in the workplace to boost the level of skills.
Learnerships are vocation and education training programmes that link theory to work experience in a registered qualification.
It is a mix of theory and practical understanding which is registered with the national qualifications framework, or NQF.
