Publisher's Synopsis
This joint OECD-ILO report provides a comparative analysis of case studies focusing on improving skills use in the workplace across eight countries. The examples provide insights into the practical ways in which employers interact with government services and policies at the local level. They highlight the need to build policy coherence across employment, skills, economic development and innovation policies, and underline the importance of ensuring that skills utilization is built into policy development thinking and implementation. Skills utilization concerns the extent to which skills are effectively applied in the workplace to maximize workplace and individual performance. It involves a mix of policies including work organization, job design, technology adaptation, innovation, employee-employer relations, human resource development practices and business-product market strategies. It is often at the local level that the interface of these factors can best be addressed.
