News: Performance Management
Skills council calls for more funding in logistics sector
04 January 2008
Skills For Logistics, the sector skills council for distribution companies, has launched a campaign to ensure that firms are not losing out on training funding.
In order to address skills shortages in the sector, the group has launched the 'Skills Pay' campaign nationwide warning that employers are losing out on funding that can be used to improve skills and improve turnover, Personnel Today reports.
"The logistics industry is the fifth largest sector in the UK economy, turning over £75 billion a year and employing 2.3 million people, which is eight per cent of the total UK workforce," said Mick Jackson of Skills for Logistics.
He added that the logistics industry employs a similar number of people to the construction industry, yet only received less than two per cent of publicly funded training, compared to 13 per cent by the construction industry.
Separately, a spokesman from the Chartered Management Institute said that staff appraisals were vital to maintain healthy employer/employee relationships.
Mike Petrook said: "The whole point behind the appraisal process is that it should motivate employees and encourage them towards ownership of and also responsibility for their performance."
