Institute for Holistic Learning Based on Montessori Education

As the directions of strategic shift in human resource development, Korean government has presented training of
demand-driven IT manpower, training of IT researchers <strong>for</strong> growth sectors of next generation, and training and
application of globally-competitive IT personnel.
Among them, Korea is focusing on training of demand-driven IT manpower as a driving task. SCM model was
employed to derive it. The basic concept of SCM is managerial technique derived from industry’s demand (pull
strategy) to optimize the supply network during education activities and a system that provides the standard of
balanced personnel in<strong>for</strong>mation to demand-specified industry. To adapt to technological changes and the industry
demand, the Korean government has re<strong>for</strong>med curriculum, rein<strong>for</strong>ced cooperative relations between academic and
industrial institutions, expanded teach the Teachers program. Moreover, demand collaboration (<strong>for</strong>ecast model and
career path map <strong>for</strong> manpower), design collaboration (curriculum, detailed syllabus, etc..), supply collaboration (job
matching), and capacity collaboration (internship) between academic institution and industry are considered as key
success factors to SCM. Thus, the expected outcome of SCM will be academic institution’s optimal supply (IT
manpower reflected industry’s needs) to industry at right time. This analysis is also expected to give valuable
implications not only to Korean policy-makers but also to other countries making an ef<strong>for</strong>t to enhance demanddriven
human resource development.
51 Lifka, Erich - Austria - erich.Lifka@wko.at
Education Demand Analysis in South-East Europe
This overview will present in short and clear <strong>for</strong>m the results of that analysis, which was delegated of WIFI Austria
/IKT in order of given development requirement analysis south Eastern Europe.
The basis of this analysis was in summary 141 interviews with entrepreneurs or leading employees of small and
medium entreprises. This analysis was carried out from August to September 2003 from HILL und PMC instituts .
52 Majumder, Shyamal - India - Shyamal_majumder@hotmail.com
Emerging Generic Skills <strong>for</strong> Employability in the Knowledge Economy
In today’s global economy driven by knowledge, the <strong>for</strong>emost wealth of a firm is its human capital or knowledge
assets. The organization <strong>for</strong> economic co-operation and development estimates that already more than half the
wealth of advanced industrial societies is derived from knowledge capital. The knowledge-based economy
recognizes the key role of in<strong>for</strong>mation-based technologies in providing a basis <strong>for</strong> the generation, management and
utilization of knowledge as never be<strong>for</strong>e, and <strong>for</strong> the emergence of knowledge-based industries. Drucker (1998)
predicted that the typical large business enterprise twenty years from now will have half the number of people in
management and one-third the managers of their counterparts today. Specialists brought together as a crossfunctional
team will do most of the work. The employment pattern will shift from manual and clerical workers to
knowledge workers. Nonaka (2000) believes that one sure source of lasting competitive advantage of business
organizations will be knowledge. Successful companies will be those that consistently create new knowledge, which
are able to disseminate it widely throughout the organization, and quickly embody it in the new technologies and
products. Knowledge-creating organizations invent new knowledge as a way of behaving or being, one in which
everyone in the organization is a knowledge worker.
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