Abstract
This chapter describes the rationale of the book from the industrial standpoint: it describes the current occupational need in complex socio-technical systems. The occupational context, the training context and the social context are briefly described and the major weaknesses are highlighted leading to the concept of “skills drain”; the related difficulties regarding occupational training are described. It shows that the issue is thus to know: What should be transferred from experienced workers to novices through training in the current social context of deteriorated mentoring within complex socio-technical systems? This relates to correlate questions: How to select what should be transferred? How to access experienced workers’ competencies?
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“mentoring” is the English translation for “compagnonnage” in French.
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Fauquet-Alekhine, P. (2020). Introduction: Competencies Transference and Skills Drain. In: Knowledge Management in High Risk Industries. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49213-7_1
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