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AIM OF THE
COURSE
The main aim
of the Eurosteelmaster – a highly concentrated short training course
for operatives of the steel industry – is to offer the conceptual
and operative tools necessary to compare the complex world faced by
companies in a competitive and increasingly global steel market.
The steel
industry has overcome a long period of changes and in many respects
it is still undergoing a rapid evolution, both from an
economical-managerial as well as from a technological point of view.
Such sweeping and rapid changes affect both the market and the
production cycle. In order to succesfully manage them, operatives
need to possess analytical as well as managerial skills, which only
a deep and broad knowledge of the industry is able to support.
Personnel directors and trade union leaders, on the other hand, are
called upon to understand and match technology-driven operational
and organisational changes taking place within their companies. This
is essential to enable the workforce to be actively involved in the
companies restructuring and to perform a constructive and partaking
role. The organisers are seeking to offer a new and unique programme,
which will be focused in the following set of aims:
- To provide in-depth
knowledge of some of the main issues affecting the steel sector;
- To provide a focus on
recent managerial and technical developments such as new business
management practises, e-commerce, computerisation etc.;
- To provide an update on
technological innovation, concentrating on the development of
applied research directed at both product and process innovation;
- To analyse changes in
company and industry environment resulting from the end of the
ECSC Treaty framework and the full inclusion of iron and steel in
the wider Treaty of the European Union;
- To offer analytical tools
adequate to an understanding of the trends in company structure,
management and performance, so that adequate retraining programmes
and practices may be designed to upgrade the level of skills
workforce.
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