Conceptual Study of the Influence of Workplace Skills Plan on Human Capital Development at the Local Council
Abstract: Workplace skills plan is a document that contains data about skills that employees have and it also identifies skills that employees are lacking. It is the responsibility of the skills development authority (SDA) facilitator to develop and implement this document in consultation with labour and management of the organisation. The intention of developing workplace skills plans is not only to claim levy-grant from sector education and training authority (SETA), however, it is to record training transactions and learning outcomes to be submitted to SETA. In order to provide a framework for the implementation of the workplace skills plan which is in line with SDA (Act No. 97 of 1998), the objectives of the SDA seek to create an understanding of how the WSP should function. The aim of this study is to determine the influence of workplace skills plan towards human capital development at local councils in South Africa. In addition, to explore how such relationship has resulted to performance of local government employees in South Africa. In this study, a detailed review of archival articles were carried out by reviewing documents obtained from newspapers, conference and journal papers, news information, websites and other relevant sources. The results from this literature review suggested that there is a critical role played by workplace skills plan on human capital development in the workplace. Evidences from the documents reviewed showed that the influence of workplace skills plan and workforce development play critical roles towards human capital development in the workplace, thus, enhances performance of local government employees. Further research could focus on conducting either a qualitative or quantitative investigation of the constructs workplace skills plan, human capital development, organisational performance in other to check the applicability at the local council in South Africa or elsewhere.
Keywords: Performance, Goals, Service Delivery, Training and Development, Employee, Productivity, South Africa.
