How are Canadian firms investing in and supporting learning? Are they moving towards becoming ‘learning organizations’? How does Canada compare to other countries? These are some of the questions that are answered and explored in Training and Development Outlook 2003.
Document Highlights
Training and Development Outlook 2003 explores the subject of learning and how it takes place in Canadian firms, based on the results of an extensive survey. It finds that:
- Canadian firms continue to under-invest in learning, and that estimates for 2003 remain low;
- differences exist in the distribution of formal training across employee categories, with non-technical workers receiving significantly fewer hours of formal training than employees in professional, technical, and scientific occupations and people in supervisory positions;
- organizations pay little attention to supporting the very basic skills of literacy, reading, and English as a second language;
- only 23 per cent of respondents defined their organization as ‘learning organization’; and,
- we lag the United States and other countries in employee training, which could have serious adverse effects on our productivity over the long term, and which could have serious ramifications for our competitiveness—both for workers and markets—on the world stage.
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