"Values" statements

• Introduction to PLAR "Values" Statements
• Summary of findings
• Who Cares About PLAR?
• Big Business
• Chartered Accountants
• The Community College
• Credit Union Institute Of Canada
• Equity Groups: Onestep
• First Nations Technical Institute
• Labour Movement
• Secondary School
• Small Business
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2

Roger Hudson
April 1998

Under the following headings, PLAR allows for:

COURSE DESIGN AND OFFERINGS

"Credit-ability" to in-house courses when the are recognized: 

• "Credentialed" training brings credibility to the learning; 
• Encourages a return to learning.

• Training design based on required skill and abilities for the particular function; 
• Specific learning outcomes; 
• Evaluation component measured against learning outcomes; 
• Documented and available to employees.

Potential savings on training costs:

• Reduction in training redundancies; 
• Reduction in per diem cost of training.

Opportunity for a collaborative and co-operative relationship with all labour market partners in designing a PLAR integrated process.

HR SYSTEM FOR PROPER COMPETENCY BASED JOB ANALYSIS

Reliable means of assessing and matching skills to workplace needs including: 

• Roles and responsibilities, required skills and abilities, individual assessment process, the opportunity to develop an individualized development plan available to all employees; 
• Framework for setting career goals and training needs; 
• Access to a more diverse work force.

• Stimulate the desire to learn and to return to learning for the employees; 
• Increase desire to learn within the company and accessing tuition refund programs for learning outside the company.

• Enhanced self esteem and self-awareness for the employees; 
• Greater sense of job security and increase in employability skills; 
• Increase in company loyalty; 
• Recognition for talking the effort to learn; 
• More personal accountability for personal and career development.

• Smoother transition from loss of employment to employment; 
• Companies benefit from sharing educational choices, resources and information about training and skills requirement current and fixture with their employees, this contributes to an increase in individual productivity, flexibility, adaptability and overall responsiveness of the individual and the company; 
• Adaptability to new technology and change in the workplace; 
• Strengthening the internal stream for job promotion; 
• Increase in ability to thirsting critically and to problem solve; 
• Mobility by promoting the portability and transferability of training/education credentials within the company and out the company.