A Vocational Training Skill and Youth to Increase Productivity in Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Cambodia

Abstract

Cambodia is a Southeast Asian Nation, and this issue is Cambodia’s membership in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Nowadays, Cambodia regional economic integration has been attracting an interest.

Becker (1961) and Mincer (1974) stated, educations, vocational training and skills development have considered major factor of human capital from which life earnings and indirect positive profits found for an individual. The economic and productivity growth driven cause human capital and R&D activities is well established in the literature, Lucas (1988) & Jones (1995) also literature.

In order to achieve objectives of this study, the research had limit the scope of the survey correctly, selected the appropriate investigative tools and methods, and conducted proper analysis and summary, and then reached a conclusion. Therefore, this chapter was designed proposing sample and population, showed the design of data collection and analysis, and also provided guidelines for this study. This study is quantitative and qualitative methods. As the Yamane Tharo, 1967 to calculate samples size as n=N ÷ (1+N.e2), N is population and e is error. Population is 8,623,857 wokers in SMEs and result the samples size were 400 employees in SMEs, in Takhmao city, Kandal province, Cambodia. Regarding the quantitative data analysis, descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean score, and standard deviation were calculated. And inferential statistics through t-test two-population independent test and One-way analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were performed.

Hypotheses Testing Results.

H1- Skills and qualifications, F=50.711, P-Value=0.001**, n=400.

H2- Morale of workers, F=37.251, P-Value=0.001**, n=400.

H3- Technological progress, F=352.939, P-Value=0.001**, n=400

**P<.001 is signification

To conclusion productive youth development in the country in the SMEs industrial sector is limited. So, should devise strategies grazed with vocational training programs. Youth opportunities in the development of productivity in the SMEs industries. So, should develop strategies to encourage vocational training through the development partners do overwhelm break challenge to skilled workers in its enterprise resource productivity, especially Small Medium Enterprises industries in the country.

Recommendations:

- Create strategies to strengthen basic skills to young people in order to facilitate access to industrial markets

- Devise strategies to brief youth to vocational in order to facilitate the increase of skilled workers

- Devise strategies to prevent youth to migrate easily to access the labor market in the industrial services sector, in collaboration with private sector

- Develop strategies grazed between vocational training to provide the young people to gain new skills and skills development.