The Knowledge Development Association develops, maintains and promotes knowledge and competence, lifelong learning and the transfer and exchange of information in the fields of education, human resources development, motivation, quality, personal development.
We are aware that to succeed in the global marketplace, the economy and society in general need high-quality and useful knowledge that enhances the skills, capabilities and abilities to effectively lead and manage business processes. Successful companies have long since realised that they can only maintain a competitive advantage over others with the right people, as the differences between excellent and average companies in all other areas have become minimal.
One of the essential characteristics of an organisation is its skills structure, i.e. the knowledge and skills of its employees. A properly qualified workforce will be able to make optimal use of their knowledge and skills and achieve better results, higher quality, inventive and innovative thinking, in short, the added value that positions the company on the market.
The Knowledge Development Association therefore engages with employers and their associations, through ongoing work and projects, to identify the new skills and competences that will lead companies and other organisations to achieve their goals and growth. Inventories of the competences needed and the actual competences, and the identification of the gap, are the basis for defining the professional qualifications needed by employees in specific companies or sectors.
ZRZ PROJECTS
The Professional Qualifications System has been developed as a complementary system to the mainstream education system and the National Vocational Qualifications System, allowing a much faster response to employers’ needs for skills and competences. Professional qualifications are designed specifically for a rounded set of jobs that employers identify as important and necessary to perform a particular task or to achieve a particular business outcome.
The ZRZ professional qualifications system is the result of years of monitoring labour market trends and long experience in formal and non-formal education and national vocational qualifications, and as such is a response to the growing shortage of specific skills and competences and to employers’ need to adapt more quickly to their needs and to the increasingly stringent human resources requirements to compete in the international market.
All of this, combined with the previous analyses, opens up new possibilities in knowledge management, as it enables knowledge to be managed, managed and quickly reacted to new developments in technology, work processes, market demands and, last but not least, to changes in the organisation’s staffing structure or employment policy.