promap skills and competencies

8/9/2019 PROMAP Skills and Competencies

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Business Education-Industry Summit

Lyceum of the Philippines

March 11, 2010

Choy Bacsa

Production & Operations Management Association ofthe Philippines (PROMAP)

Skills and CompetenciesIndustry Requirement


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PROMAP and Key Initiatives

Organized and founded in 1977

Render public service as non-partisan, non-sock organization

in the field of Production & Operations Management.

Provide forum for exchange of ideas, technical know-howand experiences among members and other organization in

manufacturing and supply chain management.

Member of the Philippine Council for Productivity.

Have organizational linkage to different chambers andorganization for the common agenda of productivity

improvement and industry development.


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PROMAP Key Initiatives & Advocacies

Productivity and Quality better or par with the best practice.

Enhance competitiveness in all aspects of manufacturing

operations.

Certifications of Operations managers/practitioners throughProduction Management Development Program

Linkage with the academe and industry

Reach Out and help SMEs in professionalizing and improving

its operations


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What are the trends in industry-

business management today?

The five resources of industry: (5Ms of the business)

Materialsdiscoveries of compounded materials requiring

simplified and automated processing are evident in most

industry today. Even agricultural products as raw material

can be grown and obtain for a specific need of an industry.

Machinetechnological advancement provides industry a

more precise automated way of producing products and even

faster services. We are approaching Robotics era for those

big companies and SMEs are transforming to an automated

operations as required by the competition.


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What are the developments in industry-

business today?

Methodway of doing things is now up to a higher levelrequiring analytical judgment and higher skills from our

employees. This is the reason why academe need to spread

out courses which focus to a certain requirement of the

industry.

Moneyhigher investment in latest machineries and

equipment requires higher investment in training people to

ensure efficiency and effectiveness of manpower in the shop

floor.


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What are the development in industry-

business today?

Manpowergiven the sophistication of the methods, highinvestment on the machines, with the high cost of

materials

The industry today requires a higher standard of manpower

skills

Industry now defines not only the skills required but the

competency level that employee should have from the start of

employment.

Competency in both technical/functional job and leadership

aspect are equally required


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Trend in business management today..

Business today is managed in two folds:

Efficient Operations

Effective Organization (people)

Therefore the academe plays a major role in building the foundation

of every student in preparing them to industry engagement.

The manpower is the most important resources of theindustry among the 5Ms of the business.


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Efficient Operations & Effective

Organization.

Business strategy to attain Efficient Operations are drawnfrom each companys Mission and Vision statements.

(what a company wants to be)

People management strategy to attain Effective Organization

are drawn from each companys defined Values.

(how do we instill discipline, develop competencies and

manage career of each employee as the most importantresource of the business)


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Framework of Competencies by the Advanced

Manufacturing Industry


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Tier 1:

Personal Effectiveness Competencies

1. Integrity: displaying accepted social and work behaviors.

2. Motivation: demonstrating a willingness to work.

3. Dependability/Reliability: displaying responsible behavior

at work.

4. Willingness to learn: understanding the importance of

learning new information for both current and future

problem-solving and decision-making.


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Tier 2:

Foundation Academic Competencies

1. Applied Science: using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

2. Basic Computer Skills: using a personal computer and related

applications to convey and retrieve information.

3. Applied Mathematics/Measurement: using mathematics to solve

problems.4. Reading for information: understanding written sentences and

paragraphs in work related documents.

5. Business Writing: using standard business English, defined as writing

that is direct, courteous, grammatically correct and not overly casual.

The main requirement of workplace is writing clearly.


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Foundation Academic Competencies

6. Listening to and Following Directions: Giving full attentionto what other people are saying, taking time to understand

the points being made, asking questions as appropriate.

7. Locating and Using Information: information gathering.

8. Speaking/Presentation: speaking so others can understand.

Communicate in spoken English well enough to make oneself

understood by supervisors and co-workers.


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Tier 3:

Workplace Competencies

1. Business Fundamentals: Determining how economyfunctions as a whole. Budget and spent accounting.

2. Teamwork: developed capacities used to work with people

to achieve goals.

3. Adaptability/Flexibility: Being open to change (positive or

negative) and to considerable variety in workplace.

4. Marketing and Customer Focus: Actively looking for ways

to identify market demands and meet customer need.


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Workplace Competencies

5. Planning/Organizing: Identifying complex problems,reviewing related information to develop and evaluate

options and implement solutions.

6. Problem Solving/Decision-making: considering the relative

costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most

appropriate one.

7. Applied Technology: develop capacities used to design, set-

up, operate, and correct malfunctions involving application

of machines or technological systems.


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Tier 4: Industry-wide Technical

Competencies-Entry-Level

1. Manufacturing Process Design/Development: research,design, implement, and continuously improve

manufacturing process to ensure product meets customer

need.

2. Production: set-up, operate, monitor, control and improve

manufacturing processes and schedules to meet customer

requirements.

3. Maintenance, Installation and Repair: maintain and

optimize manufacturing equipment and systems.


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Tier 4: Industry-wide Technical

Competencies-Entry-Level

4. Health and Safety: maintain a safe, healthy workenvironment.

5. Supply Chain Logistics: plan and monitor the movement of

materials and products in coordination with suppliers,

internal systems and customers.

6. Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement: ensure

products and processes meets quality system requirements as

defined by customer specifications.


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Tier 5: Industry-Sector Technical

Competencies

Each industry sector requires specific set of competenciesaccording to their business systems, however specific

competencies are still anchored or aligned to Industry-wide

technical competencies.

Upon entry to specific industry sector, these competencies are

part of the orientation program as part of the performance

measurement in a given job functions.


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In closing.

Skills as defined in contemporary work settings apply to aworkers ability to produce an outcome that meets orexceeds accepted standard

Competencies as defined in contemporary work settings, are

clusters of skills and attitudes that are needed in a specific jobfunction

Therefore, each student and the academe are both responsiblein building good foundation to develop and enhance

individual skills, mold character for proper work perspectiveand attitude to meet standard competencies set and requiredby the industry.


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How can the academe help students to

learn these S & C while in school?

Present skills and competencies required by the industry should be partof the curriculum. The same way a lecture subject is being beef-up bylaboratory subject.

Instructors should be a manufacturing industry practitioner.

Grading system should be aligned to what the industry is practicing, i.e.

based on the progress of both knowledge gained from lecture and actualapplication (OJT or in-house practicum). Measurement should be basedon the achievement to set goals and target.

Key Performance Area (KRA) and Key Performance Indices (KPI)should be introduced to the curriculum.

More case studies are recommended in lectures facilitated by industrypractitioner.

Emersion of those faculty members to the industry is necessary.


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Thank You

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