rhyl macfarlane's List: Workforce Development Creative Industries

• IBSA supports an integrated response to business workforce and skilling issues.
• This approach, referred to as workforce development, offers better advice and resources for businesses to address workforce-based productivity.

• Businesses in IBSA’s industry sectors have access to streamlined advice, information and support through better connecting IBSA’s activities:

   
   
  • training package enhancement priorities
   
  • the annual environment scan
   
  • advice to Governments on key skills and productivity issues
   
  • niche areas of research
• Increasing the capacity of individuals to participate effectively in the workforce throughout their whole working life and increasing the capacity of firms to adopt high performance work practices.
   (Schofield, K. (2003) in Lomax-Smith, J. Skills for the future: the final report of the Ministerial Inquiry. Government of South Australia, Adelaide)

• IBSA’s integrated workforce development approach responds to and, where possible, anticipates shifts in industry skills needs by:

   
   
  • reliably quantifying the priority skills needs in IBSA’s industry sectors
   
  • targeting industry-specific areas of research that need to be better understood
   
  • focusing training package enhancements in areas of projected skills need, and
   
  • providing professional development and resources to RTOs so they can better respond to industry training needs.

• Click on the links below to view IBSA’s Factsheets for Employers and Employees on skills development and training.

   

  Factsheet 1 Employers: skills development and training
   
   Factsheet 2 Employees: Increase your work opportunities
   
   Factsheet 3 Industry Skills Councils
   
   Factsheet 4 Employers: Training will help your enterprise grow and remain competitive

   

  Factsheet 5 Employees: Training courses now available to help develop skills

   

  Factsheet 6 Employers: Ensuring continued success for your enterprise
• The Productivity Places Program (PPP) is funded by the Australian and State and Territory Governments to increase the skill level of Australia’s working age population to respond to the productivity needs of businesses, the economy, and workers.

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• • The printing industry is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in Australia employing more than 115,000 people.
   
  • Small to medium businesses dominate the industry with 85.3 per cent employing less than 20 people; 94.4 per cent less than 50 and 97.5 per cent less than 100.
   
  • The number of establishments in the industry total about 5,000 and are spread across Australia, having a physical presence in every region.
   
  • Annual industry turnover is approximately $18 billion, including more than $9.3 billion in industry value added.
   
  • The industry's annual exports total more than $600 million and imports more than $2 billion.
   
  • Average annual capital expenditure is approximately $746 million. Combine this with the number of people employed in the graphic design and communication industries and you have a powerful voice on small business, employment, innovation, technology and environmental issues.