Wenge stresses need to build an employee

By GABRIEL LAHOC
CAPACITY-building of an employee, organisation and a system is very important in today’s competitive world, Morobe Governor Luther Wenge says.
Opening the PNG Training and Development Society’s two-day conference last Thursday in Lae, Wenge encouraged the participants to look at each pillar carefully and propose activities to fulfil Vision 2050.
He said Vision 2050 was an ambitious plan that would put the country among the top 50 nations in the United Nations in 40 years.
“I strongly believe it is our workforce who can make this happen, not the politicians,” Wenge said.
He said taking on the government’s challenge should involve capacity building and its three main components at the level of an individual, an organisation and a system which would result in an overall enhanced performance.
“Capacity building at the individual level entails human resource development, at the organisational level it entails creating and enabling external environment,” he said.
He said institutional and workplace training was a challenge throughout the world, and advised organisations to be persistent in their training programmes as employees acquired new ways of doing things.
Wenge said organisations should follow comprehensive plans to keep up with the global competitiveness and energetic workforces.
He said he had always challenged Papua New Guineans to be responsible in developing the nation and had discouraged reliance on foreign aid.
He said PNG had the resources to develop itself and the ability to manage its own affairs.
That, he said, could be done through training and the availability of employment incentives such as improved working conditions.