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Effective Skills Transfer Through a Learning Management System: a Case of Eleckom Corporate Services
Abstract
Africa in general is said to still be lagging behind th e developed nations in terms of workforce skills, and South Africa is not an exception. The problem of skills inadequacy, it is argued, has a negative effect on enterprises as it presents hurdles to the country’s economic development object ives. Small, medium and large organizations tend to suffer from the said issue. In the context of South Afri ca, parastatals, as vital enterprises to the growth of the economy are also exposed to the adverse effects of relevant skills shortage. To this point, parastatals have to continua l find ways to curb the inadequacy of relevant skills. This paper aimed to show how releva nt skills, in a large South African parastatal, could be transferred among employees through a Learning Management Syst em. This is done by following a case study method on the ways in which ElecKom corporate services promotes and facilitates relevant skills transfer through its adopted learning management system. Fo llowing the interpretivist research paradigm, Activity Theory underpinned the study. The paper conclu des that the issues of relevant skills shortage may be curbed through knowledge and skills transfer using learning management systems as enabling tools, so long as the systems ar e contextualized sens itive to the organizat ional culture and the background of employees.
Keywords
Activity Theory
Knowledge
Learning Management Systems
Parastatal
Skills Transfer
South Africa
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Funding:
This research received academic dissemination support through ESCAP / JournalsHub publishing programs.
Conflicts of Interest:
The authors declare no competing financial or institutional interests.
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Double-blind peer reviewed by international subject specialists.
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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Systems, et al. (2012). Effective Skills Transfer Through a Learning Management System: a Case of Eleckom Corporate Services. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, 7(2). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_06
Systems, et al. "Effective Skills Transfer Through a Learning Management System: a Case of Eleckom Corporate Services." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems, vol. 7, no. 2, 2012. https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_06
Systems, et al. "Effective Skills Transfer Through a Learning Management System: a Case of Eleckom Corporate Services." IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems 7, no. 2 (2012). https://doi.org/10.33965/ijcsis_2012_v7i2_06