Abstract—The Occupational competency development of
personnels in any organization was considered to be a vital
factor for economic development especially in business and
industry sectors. Supervisor played an important role in
industrial development, therefore, the training of personnels to
improve their occupational competency is very essential. These
research main objectives aimed to investigate the components of
work competency of the production supervisor in textile
industry as well as to develop the training course for these
personnels. The training course was then used to train target
group to assess their training achievement. The assessment of
their competencies obtained for the training was conducted by
evaluating the productivity of work done by workers. The
population of the study was production supervisors of textile
industry situated in Ubonratchathani, THAILAND. The
samples of 30 supervisors were selected from Vertex Apparel
Co., Ltd which is a textile and garment company. The results of this study were as follows: 1) In order to
develop work competency components, a total of two hundred
production supervisors in textile and garment industry were
selected as research samples. Accordingly, work competency
components of these personnels comprised of six aspects, i.e.
leadership, planning, monitoring and evaluation, process
improvement, problem solving, communication skill. 2) The
sample group was then trained for three months using to
develop 5 Modules for training course. Data were collected at
the end of training to assess their learning achievement by
means of percentage. The productivity of work done was
collected every 15 days for six months to compare with
productivity obtained before the training. 3) The finding on
learning achievement is 81.5 % which corresponded to the
hypothesis. The result was an increase in productivity of about
10%, a 60% reduction in defects. The finding also corresponded
to the hypothesis.
Index Terms—Development, occupational competency,
training model, production supervisor.
The authors are with the Department of Technological Education, Faculty
of Technical Education, King Mongkut’s University of Technology North
Bangkok, Thailand (e-mail: chaloemphon.m@umt.ac.th,
somyot@kht.co.th).
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Cite: Chaloemphon Meechai and Somyot Jedjaroenruk, " The Development of a Training Model for Occupational Competency of Production Supervisor," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 505-509, 2016.