Tri-Party Collaborative Venture for Non-Professional Technical Skills Formation

Presented in the 14th South Asian Management Forum 2017 Organized by AMDISA of India, Held in Bandos of Maldives during 24-26 April 2017

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ASM Shahabuddin

Uttara University

Nazrul Islam

Northern University Bangladesh

Md. Shamsul Arefin

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University

Md. Mofazzal Hossain

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology - Department of Business Administration

Azad Hossen

Cottage Industries Training Institute (SCITI)

Date Written: April 10, 2017

Abstract

More than 60 percent of 160 million people of Bangladesh are youth of which 40 percent are unemployed. These huge numbers of unemployed people need work skills to find wage employment or self-employment. Drawing upon the principles of cooperation and self reliance, this paper theoretically proposes and explains a tri-party collaborative venture for nonprofessional technical skills formation. Lowly educated unemployed youths are the beneficiaries who will receive training to acquire skills and achieve upscale socioeconomic mobility. As nonprofessional technical skills are mostly learned informally and through on-the-job, business houses are posited as the cooperators who shall create scope for training those youths without employing them. Government agency is to assume the role of the facilitator that will provide support for the collaborative ventures. This conceptualization of institutional form of cooperation for non-professional technical skills formation is grounded in intuitive, practical and theory driven insights. For gaining practical insights, collaborative training was graphically presented to two government officials from two training organizations and two senior managers from two private telecom organizations for detailed discussion. The discussion findings were used to develop an interview guide to pool opinions from 13 SME employers. Also, dialogues were arranged 12 youths to elicit information on some specific points relating to skills training.

Following the explanation of the proposed collaborative venture, the paper shares theory-driven insights useful for designing financing and incentive policies on the part of the government agency for putting the proposed and discussed venture into practice. As for novelty of this paper, the proposed collaborative venture as a de facto training center has the potential to be recognized as a model means to enhance corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance.

Keywords: Collaboration, Cooperators, Facilitators, Beneficiaries, Skills formation, Informal training, Incentive Policy

Suggested Citation

Shahabuddin, ASM and Islam, Nazrul and Arefin, Md. Shamsul and Hossain, Md. Mofazzal and Hossen, Azad, Tri-Party Collaborative Venture for Non-Professional Technical Skills Formation (April 10, 2017). Presented in the 14th South Asian Management Forum 2017 Organized by AMDISA of India, Held in Bandos of Maldives during 24-26 April 2017 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4158910 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4158910

ASM Shahabuddin

Uttara University

Nazrul Islam (Contact Author)

Northern University Bangladesh ( email )

Ashkona, Airport
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Bangladesh
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Md. Shamsul Arefin

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University ( email )

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Tech
Gopalganj, Dhaka 8100
Bangladesh
8100 (Fax)

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Md. Mofazzal Hossain

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology - Department of Business Administration ( email )

Sylhet
Bangladesh

Azad Hossen

Cottage Industries Training Institute (SCITI)

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