Rubber Industry: Toward Well- qualified Human Resources

To have a pool of labour with high skills, it is necessary that 10,000 labourers be required to have university and college degrees. In addition, the industry will need to retrain 2,600 labourers. With the current area of plantation, if every three hectares get controlled by one labourer, the number of labourers who need to be trained will amount to 65,000 ones.

 

Being aware of the role of human resource in its development, the rubber industry has put forward many plans to improve the quality of human resource working in the industry. Vietnam Rubber Corporation pioneers in this task. The expansion of production and trading scale means that more labourers are needed. Therefore, the corporation has aimed at establishing a team of competent and skilled labourers, ensuring a firm and continuous transfer among generations of labourers, etc. Particularly, the corporation has applied the system of rating labourers’ skills to guarantee fairness and encourage the desire to upgrade working skills of workers and thereby accelerate productivity.

 

The Rubber Industry College is the only member of the corporation and the whole country which provides training and human resource for the rubber industry. The college has shifted its direction when implementing university and post-graduate education programmes. The college also expands the list of departments, providing extra courses on fields which the corporation is making investment into, further enhancing the relationship among the college, members and non-members of the corporation so as to improve the quality and effectiveness of the education and training. On the other hand, the college continues to survey the demand for training of the corporation in order to build up the training programmes and accurately forecast training demand, helping accomplish the goal of providing training in line with demand of the corporation and the society. The college is aiming at becoming the Rubber Industry University after 2015 so that it can perform well the task of providing training to human resource of Vietnam’s rubber industry.

 

Following enthusiastic activities of the corporation, members also have solutions suitable with their specific context. It is necessary to talk of Phu Rieng Rubber Company since this company regularly pays due attention to the task of structuring its working force, considering this a key task which decides every success as well as sustainable development of the whole company. The company not only focuses on providing training to employees to help them be more qualified, competent and enthusiastic but also assigns employees to positions suited to their skills and strengths so that they can promote their ability.

 

Mang Yang Rubber Company takes an interest in improving the company’s personnel by sponsoring the whole amount of study fee for offspring of its employees when they successfully sit for the entrance exam to University of Medicine and Pharmacy. This is regarded as a strategic activity of the company with an aim to providing a solution to the shortage of doctors and nurses practicing at medical centers. In addition, the company sends nurses and doctors to large hospitals within the country and in the region to practice and get further training so that they can better meet working demands. Besides creating a modern and professional working environment, the company also offers compatible fringe benefits to students when they work for the company.

 

Considering the task of developing the human resource as a strategic solution for the company’s sustainable development, Dak Lak Rubber Company keeps opening classes on English, management, laws, and dispute solving, etc. for its employees.

 

It can be seen that enterprises within the industry have paid attention to providing training to and improving skills of their employees so as to meeting working requirements as well as integration requirement of the industry.