MANAGEMENT OF CHANGE IN THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY
THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES

The shipbuilding sector in Greece has been through a severe crisis for years due to pressure from the external environment on one hand (competition from Eastern countries mainly) and due to difficulties in adapting its internal environment to the increasingly changing labor demands on the other. Developing new productive activities as well as upgrading services and products provided, presuppose changing a number of critical operational parameters of a shipbuilding company most of which are related to numan resources. Thus the main target of this project was management of change through training of workers and companies, that is introduction of new attitudes and perceptions for the development of the sector enabling workforce to adapt to imposed or expected changes, improve skills and participate in the production procedure and achievement of company goals creatively.

The main project targets included:
•    Improving company culture and working behaviors of workers through seeking means of changing obstacles
•    Upgrading worker knowledge, competences and skills in order to allow them to better adapt to changing work demands
•    Improvement of internal company communication mechanisms
•    Managing and recording formal and tacit knowledge in a transferable way suggesting new roles for aged workforce
•    Improving quality and performance of productive procedures, organization and workforce
•    Supporting workforce by promoting work mobility, active participation and intervention of social partners

Except from NTUA-LMT the remaining project partners were:
•    NEORION Shipyards
•    NEORION KEK
•    Elefsis Shipyards
•    KEK/INE/General Secretariat of Hellenic Workers
•    AEGAION Technical & Financial Consultants
•    Cyclades Development Company
•    Prefecture of South Aegean
•    Workers’ Center of the South Aegean
•    Union of Elefsis Shipyards Workers
•    Union of NEORION Shipyards Workers

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