TY  - JOUR
T1  - Case Study for Skills Management Approach to Manage and Retain the Highly-Skilled Blue Collar Workers
AU - Hwa, Eng Poh AU - Chew, Boon Cheong AU - Hamid, Syaiful Rizal 
JO  - International Business Management
VL  - 10
IS  - 16
SP  - 3558
EP  - 3566
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1993-5250
DO  - ibm.2016.3558.3566
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ibm.2016.3558.3566
KW  - Skills management
KW  -skills planning
KW  -skills development
KW  -skills transfer
KW  -skills retention
KW  -highly-skilled blue collar workers
AB  - Skills are essential to enable the highly-skilled blue collar workers to perform their jobs. There is a phenomenon of job hopping among the highly-skilled blue collar workers in the high technology manufacturing (Electrical and Electronics) industry in Malaysia. It is challenging to retain highly-skilled blue collar in the Electrical and Electronics (E&E) in Malaysia because it is resources-consuming to produce this group of workers. How to manage and retain the highly-skilled blue collar workers in the E & E industry in Malaysia? The research aims to prove the applicability of a developed theoretical framework for skills management process to manage and retain highly skilled blue collar workers in the high technology manufacturing (Electrical and Electronics) industry in Malaysia. The researcherss apply the method of study-semi-structured and in-depth interviews to collect data to verify the derived theoretical framework for the skills management process. It consists of four stages with activities: skills planning, skills development, skills transfer and skills retention. The concept of skills management developed by the researcherss in this study is a new and original concept. It has not been done by other researchers in the field of management science.
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