The Development of Roles, Competencies and Outcomes of Education, Training and Development (ETD) Facilitators in the Textile Industry

Abstract

The new training dispensation in South Africa promotes an outcome-based approach to education and training. The textile industry has expressed a need to upgrade the training competence of Education, Training and Development (ETD) facilitators. The general objective of this research was to develop the roles, competencies and outcomes for ETD facilitators in the industry. A cross-sectional survey design was used to reach the research objective. A questionnaire was compiled to measure the role level and focus, competence in four categories and outcomes. A sample of 70 ETD facilitators representing 34 individual companies participated in the survey. The results showed that various ETD outcomes at different complexity levels are being reached through a combination of roles using a range of competencies.