Reinforcement of Workforce Training Programs—Insights from Pilot Testing Process to Enhance Greening Practices in Enterprises
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: As industries and organizations become greener, the demand for workers with green expertise will rise, making education, training, and skill development for the green transition more essential than ever. With an emphasis on local green skills shortages, our study focused primarily on qualitative insights from a specific sample of industry practitioners to explore emerging trends in green skills training, providing effective steps in curriculum improvements for teaching and learning in support of greening jobs and enterprises. It addresses the increasing demand for green skills in the workplace and offers practical insights on how to reinforce the workforce training process, through needs assessments, curriculum objectives, specific learning outcomes and targeted green skills, training components, and working methodologies. The feedback from the pilot process highlights the strengths of the training curriculum in enhancing green practices in enterprises, particularly in terms of content quality, communication methods and online interaction, workload and the practical application of green knowledge, and feedback mechanisms. Our study provides several theoretical and practical implications for various stakeholders (i.e., researchers, academics, trainers, and practitioners) interested in advancing the adoption of green practices. Also, universities and training institutions can benefit from this study by incorporating its findings into their curricula, thereby improving the relevance and impact of training and education programs.
Source: Sustainability
DOI: 10.3390/su162310377
Authors: Bogdan Fleacă, Gheorghe Militaru, Elena Fleacă
Language: English
Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,728
OpenAlex ID: W4404766562