In order to satisfy the demands of workers as well as enterprises with regards to the changes in the external environment, the creation of a new system for vocational skills development & training has been regarded as important. Moreover, the need for fundamental principles and standards to support the current worker training programs, as well as the need to meet the needs of the users of these program in the face of the ongoing social and economic changes has also been raised. Given this situation, the following three tasks are critical: 1) to understand the effect of the changes in the external environment on worker training programs; 2) to define the current direction of worker training program and the roles of concerned parties; 3) to provide answers on how to improve the current system.
This paper defines the roles of worker training programs based on the changes in the external environment and suggests methods to improve the current system in order to develop individual workers' vocational skills and to establish a system to develop vocational skills.