TY - JOUR AB - Discusses the link between various forms of shopfloor worker competences and the ability of manufacturing plants to compete on different forms of market attractiveness. Shows how movement along a four‐level model of competence, ranging from operator proficiency to high levels of problem‐solving ability, affects a firm’s ability to support improvements in different dimensions of competitiveness. Enables firms to consider their worker competence strategies in terms of their specific competitiveness rather than in some general form of abstraction. VL - 7 IS - 1 SN - 0957-6061 DO - 10.1108/09576069610108444 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/09576069610108444 AU - Woodcock David PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - How skills development affects manufacturing’s competitive capability T2 - Integrated Manufacturing Systems PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 38 EP - 44 Y2 - 2024/04/25 ER -