TY - GEN
T1 - Debunking Limitations Hindering Continuing Professional Development Imperatives in South African Construction Industry
AU - Babatunde, Idebi Olawale
AU - Laseinde, Timothy
AU - Oluwafemi, Ifetayo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is a universally accepted mechanism that bridges the gap between formal higher education knowledge transfer and work-place competencies. CPD reinforces existing knowledge and facilitates acquisition of new skills, and intricate competencies required for innovation. The study investigates the challenging factors South African Construction Industry (SACI) practitioners encounter which limits participation in CPD rated events and formal trainings. The study significantly contributes to the identification of the barriers to the subject matter and the recommendations that emerged may be explored by SACI practitioners towards becoming globally competitive. The research involved extensive review of existing literature to identify CPD participation challenges, and construction industry practitioner’s competency challenges. It further analyzed secondary data obtained from industry actors as means of benchmarking industry expectations for SACI. The research identified financial cost of CPD, workload of personnel, and lack of suitable CPD activities as prevalent challenging factors in SACI. The study recommends that organizations need to support staff by financing CPD training costs, and consciously creating work-recess for staff to attend CPD trainings.
AB - Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is a universally accepted mechanism that bridges the gap between formal higher education knowledge transfer and work-place competencies. CPD reinforces existing knowledge and facilitates acquisition of new skills, and intricate competencies required for innovation. The study investigates the challenging factors South African Construction Industry (SACI) practitioners encounter which limits participation in CPD rated events and formal trainings. The study significantly contributes to the identification of the barriers to the subject matter and the recommendations that emerged may be explored by SACI practitioners towards becoming globally competitive. The research involved extensive review of existing literature to identify CPD participation challenges, and construction industry practitioner’s competency challenges. It further analyzed secondary data obtained from industry actors as means of benchmarking industry expectations for SACI. The research identified financial cost of CPD, workload of personnel, and lack of suitable CPD activities as prevalent challenging factors in SACI. The study recommends that organizations need to support staff by financing CPD training costs, and consciously creating work-recess for staff to attend CPD trainings.
KW - CPD
KW - Competencies
KW - Continuous professional development
KW - Participation
KW - South African Construction Industry
KW - Work place competency
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85071469625&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_141
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-27928-8_141
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85071469625
SN - 9783030279271
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 942
EP - 946
BT - Human Systems Engineering and Design II - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design
A2 - Ahram, Tareq
A2 - Karwowski, Waldemar
A2 - Pickl, Stefan
A2 - Taiar, Redha
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Human Systems Engineering and Design: Future Trends and Applications, IHSED 2019
Y2 - 16 September 2019 through 18 September 2019
ER -
