Chapter III. Chapter III. Vocational Training System
B. SME-Specific Training
operating expenses are provided within the limit of KRW400 million per year (100% of the projected cost). Annual limits to support project development are KRW100 million (100% of the projected cost).
[Figure III-2] suggests that 251,895 employees from 30,796 SMEs participated in the training as of 2011.
[Figure - 2] Status of the Consortia for HRD Ability Magnified Program
(Unit: Number of places, 1,000persons)
0 25 50 75 100 125 150
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
'05 '06 '07 '08 '09 '10 '11
Operation Institutions No. of Trainees
Participating SMEs
Source: Employment Insurance White Paper, Ministry of Employment and Labor 2012.
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(2) SME Learning Organization Support Project
The SME learning organization support project is a project that builds infrastructure for SMEs’ learning activities in order to enable SMEs to accumulate vocational knowledge and know-how.
SMEs are faced with challenges including a lack of infrastructure, risk of disruption to business and production to implement formal training programs. Furthermore, SMEs tend to avoid the outflow of their skilled technologies and skills are developed within the workplace. Therefore, SMEs have high interest in firm-specific skills. Against this backdrop, this project has been implemented since 2006 to support SMEs so that they can train their skilled workers within their places of business by linking “learning” and “business.”
334 SMEs participated in the SME Learning Organization Support Project in 2011 with 1,751 learning groups which facilitated the learning foundation of SMEs. The most frequently utilized types of support in 2011 were learning group activities (mandatory), securing space for learning, outstanding learning activities, outside advisory and learning network respectively.
Companies that implement the learning organization program after consulting with labor representatives can be selected as priority support companies via contest. Details of the support are described in <Table III-6>. The support period is one year in principle, but can be extended by up to three years depending on the project achievement assessment results.
<Table - 6> Details and conditions of the SME Learning Organization Support Project
Support
Type Conditions Details
Support for Learning Group Activities
To provide support for
○
learning activities related to job performance and improvement of management achievements
- To support up to 8 groups - Period : More than 6
months
- Learning group regular meeting: at least twice a month
Limited to KRW 20MN
○
per company
Management cost of
￭
learning groups
Education cost of CEOs,
￭
group leaders, and learning leaders Activity allowance for
￭
learning leaders (1 person per company)
Support for Outstand-i ng Learning Activities
To provide support in case of rewarding based on assessment of the learning activity result (proposal of outstanding ideas, participants with outstanding knowledge score or competition winners, etc.)
Limited to KRW8MN per
○
company
Award companies that won
￭
prizes in learning activity competitions (KRW4MN) Award winners of
￭
competition among in-house learning groups Support
for Learning Network
To provide support companies participating in SME learning organization project and establishing learning network to share best practices
Limited to KRW1MN per
○
company (KRW500,000 for voluntarily participating companies)
Support for Outside Experts
To provide support for outside advice necessary for learning organization
Limited to KRW6MN per
○
company
Source: Employment Insurance White Paper, Ministry of Employment and Labor 2012.
(3) SME Core Competency Training Program
The SME core competency training program provides advanced courses of outstanding training institutions to business owners and employees of priority support SMEs. The program supports the companies by providing employee wages for those who participate in the training (minimum wage per hour multiplied by training hours) and offers training expenses to training institutions (directly without a separate payment process for all participants that completed the course). The entire amount of actual training expense is paid for by the program.
The program is divided into a “general course” and a “specialized course” depending on the nature and level of the training course. The Minister of Employment and Labor (Human Resources Development Service of Korea) selects core competency training programs through a contest. 172 programs were proposed in the contest by 52 institutions in 9 training sectors (strategic management, HR and organization management, sales and marketing, distribution and logistics, accounting, HRD and leadership, production and quality management, manufacturing technology and technology management and R&D). 33,654 employees of SMEs participated in the training in 2011 and those SMEs were provided with actual training expenses and wages for their workers.
(4) SME Systematic On-the-Job Training
The SME systematic on-the-Job training is a newly adopted project in 2012 which provides infrastructure necessary for SMEs
who are short of programs, instructors and other related infrastructure.
The target of the training is priority support for SMEs. Trainer education, job analysis, module development, training implementation, assessment and outside advisory are supported by the program within the limit of KRW7million per company.
Details of support for Systematic On-the-Job Training of SMEs are described in <Table III-7>.
<Table - 7> Details of SME Systematic On-the-Job Training Support
Source: Employment Insurance White Paper, Ministry of Employment and Labor 2012.
Support Type Details of Support
Education Expense ○ Limited to KRW 2MN : Educational and personnel costs to hire trainers and managers of
corporation-led courses and voluntary courses Job Analysis/
Module Development
Limited to KRW 3MN: Training plan/Job analysis
○
benefit, module development cost, cost for printing and purchasing teaching materials, cost to hire trainers
Implementation of On-the-job Training
and Assessment
Limited to KRW 3MN: personnel expenses to hire
○ trainers
Outside Experts ○ Limited to KRW 2MN