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Numeracy and Literacy Skills are affecting Business

John Cachia - Friday, June 11, 2010
The Australian Industry Group (AIG) conducted discussion groups and surveys designed to identify the level of numeracy and literacy problems in the workforce and what impact this is having on business. It was found that more than 75% of employers believed poor literacy and numeracy affected their business.

In total more than 390 responses to the survey, came from companies within the Manufacturing; Construction and Service Industries who employ (approx) 56,000 staff.

The main issues seemed to include poor completion of documents and the loss of productivity due to repeating work processes. Other problems include:-
    •  - Ineffective Work Teams,
    •  - Materials Wastage,
    •  - Ineffective Training,
    •  - Financial Miscalculations,
    •  - Unsafe Work Practices (which lead to Workplace incidents and injuries), and
    •  - Ineffective recruitment Practices.

Whilst these issues occured with labourers and process workers... [some] managers and engineers too were effected by poor numeracy and literacy skills.



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