A REVIEW OF DOCK WORKERS’ LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE FROM TRAINING PROGRAMMES CONDUCTED BY CHENNAI PORT
Keywords:
Chennai port, Dock workers, Leadership Skills, Knowledge, Training ProgrammesAbstract
The present paper reviews the leadership skills and knowledge of dock workers getting from training programmes carried out by Chennai port. Because of the increasing awareness about the importance of training programmes among port in specific to dock workers and further researcher had specifically taken Chennai port due to their personal experience. To obtain the study objectives, the study adopts secondary data collection method in order to collect the relevant reviews through websites, the official report of port, magazines, and newspapers etc. This review paper finds out the importance of training in the organization in general and in specific to port and also analyse the training programmes conducted by Chennai port and how it is effective for dock workers and the knowledge and skills obtained by dock workers was reviewed. The findings of this paper noticed that dock workers getting required knowledge and skills from training programmes conducted by Chennai port, however, the reviews in relation to specific leadership skills for dock workers obtained from the port is restricted. Hence future studies should give more focus in this aspect.
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