Workforce Policy
Skills Action Plan Reports
Towards a high skill, high wage, high value economySkills Action Plan for theFood and Beverage Sector
Background Papers
The Skills Working Group commissioned a number of reports that informed the development of the Skills Action Plan. These papers are available on request from the Department of Labour.
Food and beverage labour forecasting framework: development and indicative applications - May 2006
Prepared by Dr Nicola Chandler Dr Ganesh Nana Kel Sanderson Jason Leung-Wai
This report sets out a framework for forecasting labour requirements in the food and beverage sector. It provides a tool which may be manipulated by the client to present various scenarios and inform the user of labour requirements according to these scenarios.
Food & Beverage Sector Productivity Study Final Report- August 2006 - Deloitte
The objectives of this report are to:
- Provide an assessment of the current state of productivity within a substantial sub-sector of the food and beverage industry utilising the framework provided by the Report of the Workplace Productivity Working Group (the Seven Drivers of Workplace Productivity);
- Identify what workplace productivity initiatives are working well, and conversely not so well, in the sub-sector studied;
- Identify impediments to businesses in the sub-sector studied lifting their productivity performance;
- Provide insights into how the Department, the Taskforce, training organisations and sector groups can assist the food and beverage sector, and organisations within the sector, to improve their workplace productivity; and
- Provide methodological insight informing future research.
Science and Technology Adoption in the Vegetable and Savoury Foods Sub-SectorFinal Report - 20 July 2006
This report has been commissioned by the Innovation and Skills Working Groups of the Food and Beverage Taskforce. It sets out the findings of part one of a two part research project aimed at exploring why some companies are more inclined to identify, create, adopt and implement new ideas, research, practices, technologies than others.
It also aims to identify what might be done to facilitate a greater level of science/technology adoption in the vegetable and savoury foods sub-sector and to what extent these findings align with international experience, and are generalisable across the entire sector.
Skill Shortages In The Food & Beverage Sector
This report identified occupations within the food and beverage sector that are currently experiencing genuine skill shortages. The reasons for shortage are examined along with suggestions for addressing the shortages.