Overview of Technical Worker Training of Vietnam Electricity Group

DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTOR OF ECONOMY - FINANCE

DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTOR OF CONSTRUCTION SOURCE

DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTOR OF NETWORK CONSTRUCTION

DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTOR OF DT & PT

DEPUTY GENERAL DIRECTOR OF SON LA HYDRAULIC PLANT PROJECT

Board of Directors & Securities

Planning Department

National Power System Control Center

1.Pha Lai Thermal Power Plant 2.Uong Bi Thermal Power Plant 3.Ninh Binh Thermal Power Plant

4. Thu Duc Thermal Power Plant

5. Can Tho Thermal Power Plant

6. Phu My Thermal Power Plant

7. Ba Ria Thermal Power Plant

8. Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Plant

9. Thac Ba Hydroelectric Plant

10. Vinh Son - Song Hinh Hydroelectric Plant

11. Tri An Hydroelectric Plant

12. Thac Mo Hydroelectric Plant

13. Da Nhim - Ham Thuan - Da Mi Hydroelectric Plant

14. IALY Hydroelectric Plant

1.Northern M Corporation 2.Central M Corporation 3.Southern M Corporation

4. Hanoi Power Corporation.

5. Ho Chi Minh City Real Estate Corporation

1. Northern Power Project Management Board 2. Central Power Project Management Board 3. Southern Power Project Management Board 4. Son La Hydropower Plant Project Management Board 5. Hydropower Project Management Board 1

6. Hydropower Project Management Board 2 7. Hydropower Project Management Board 3 8. Hydropower Project Management Board 4 9. Hydropower Project Management Board 5 10. Hydropower Project Management Board 6 11. Thermal Power Plant Management Board 1 12. Thermal Power Plant Management Board 3

13. Project Management Board of Vietnam Electricity Industry Operation and Information Center

Electrical equipment manufacturing company

1. University of Electricity.

2. Ho Chi Minh City College of Electricity

3. Central College of Electricity

4. College of Electrical Engineering.

Thu Duc Electromechanical Company

Electricity Telecommunication Information Company

Electricity Industry Information and Services Company

1. Power Construction Consulting Company 1

2. Power Construction Consulting Company 2

3. Power Construction Consulting Company 3

4. Power Construction Consulting Company 4

Energy Institute

Information Technology Center

Transmission Corporation

1. Power Transmission Company 1

2. Power Transmission Company 2

3. Power Transmission Company 3

4. Power Transmission Company 4

Source: Vietnam Electricity Group (2009)

Diagram 2.1. Training organization chart of Vietnam Electricity Group

The Group's General Director is responsible for unified management of training activities within the Group, in order to create a reasonable industry structure and necessary professional qualifications, ensuring the goal of developing human resources and using the staff effectively.

Units under the Group are allowed to organize training courses using the unit's budget, in accordance with the annual training plan approved by the Group.

The power companies under the Group are responsible for signing contracts with training schools under the Group to organize concentrated training courses: new training, retraining, and training of staff and employees when there is a need for training. In case the training schools under the Group do not meet the requirements and have a written response, then the member units are allowed to sign training contracts with organizations, agencies or training schools outside the Group.

The Organization & Personnel Department is the focal point to help the General Director organize and manage EVN's training work, direct and guide affiliated units to develop long-term and short-term training plans, propose the selection of officers and employees for training when requested by units, and handle recruitment procedures for domestic and foreign training courses after consulting with the Group's departments and related affiliated units.

As mentioned above, the training and upgrading of technical staff; short-term training, etc. of EVN is currently assigned to schools such as: University of Electricity, Ho Chi Minh City College of Electricity, Central College of Electricity, College of Electrical Vocational Training; in addition, directors of power companies and heads of affiliated units direct the implementation of on-site training, in accordance with the requirements of production and business management of their units.

2.1.2. Procedure for opening training and development classes

2.1.2.1. For classes organized by Vietnam Electricity Group

- Each Board proposes requirements for training content, develops a class outline and submits it to EVN leaders for approval;

- The Organizing & Human Resources Department submits to the General Director for approval the decision to open a class;

- The location for opening the class is chosen by the EVN Boards, it can be a school outside the industry or a school within the industry;

- Cost: usually included in EVN's cost price.

2.1.2.2. For classes organized by EVN enterprises

- Usually follow the process: each department in charge of one or more specialties when a new Decree is issued, or new technology is applied, realizing the need to train staff, employees, they contact the training department of the enterprise, propose training content, time, training subjects and invite teachers to teach. The proposal and management of the class is implemented by the training department of the Organization and Training Department (Department) of the power companies or affiliated power companies.

- For the organization of professional training (annual promotion and maintenance training), companies proactively develop programs, outlines, and textbooks for annual promotion training for employees who are eligible for annual promotion training (BHNB) of the companies. Some units delegate the implementation to their affiliated power companies; some units sign contracts with schools in the Group to send employees for promotion training.

- Class location: At the unit or at schools within or outside the industry;

- Cost: Paid by the unit itself, included in the unit's electricity cost.

* For classes opened at schools:

The training department of each unit places orders with schools to develop training program outlines, invite teachers to teach; Prepare budget estimates for leadership approval; Sign training contracts; Organize training.

Within the framework of the thesis, we only analyze in depth the training and refresher courses based on the unified development of outlines, training programs, and training curricula for the technical staff with different professions of Vietnam Electricity Group.

Thus, in reality, the training and improvement of qualifications for the staff and employees in the Industry has received deep attention from EVN leaders with the main training contents, such as management knowledge for staff and employees from production team leaders and above, training programs on new techniques, training programs on investment project management, training programs on information technology, training programs on other professional aspects, such as document archiving, accounting standards, materials management, planning management, new policies and regimes,... In addition, there are also specialized training programs, such as boiler repair, conductors and lightning protection, digital relays, underground cable repair and operation management, electrical testing,...[39]

2.2. ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT STATUS OF TECHNICAL WORKER TRAINING AT SCHOOLS BELONGING TO VIETNAM ELECTRICITY GROUP

On the basis of applying the criteria for assessing the quality of vocational college training issued by the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs ( Appendix 1 ), the author focuses on analyzing and clarifying the basic and important criteria that have a great impact on the quality of training of technical workers at EVN's electrical vocational training schools. In this report, the author also inherits the research on the current status of training work of EVN's schools from previous studies; at the same time, based on the system of criteria mentioned in Chapter 1, the author creates a questionnaire and conducts in-depth interviews ( Appendix 3 ), conducts a survey to collect information from interviews and discussions with training managers at EVN's technical training schools to clarify and evaluate the current status of training of technical workers of the Electricity Industry at EVN's schools, the results are as follows:

Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) has 4 training schools: i) Electricity University, ii) Electricity Vocational College in the North, iii) Electricity College in the Central region in the Central region and iv) Electricity College in Ho Chi Minh City in the South. Currently, all 4 schools are assigned by EVN to provide vocational training to provide technical staff for EVN and the society. Electricity Vocational College is allowed to train at college level while other schools train from intermediate vocational level and below. Currently

EVN schools are permitted by the General Department of Vocational Training - Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs to train about 20 occupations to serve the production and business needs of EVN and society, mainly in the technical field, training of electricity industry technicians. In recent years, training of technicians has been improved in quality and quantity, but still cannot meet the growing requirements of the industry.

2.2.1. Current status of training management of schools

2.2.1.1. School training management model

Training management is a system of purposeful, scientific, and lawful impacts of the management subject to make the education system operate according to the Party and State's guidelines, to fulfill the requirements of social education in training people according to the model of the times, focusing on teaching and education activities, bringing the system from its initial state to the training goal. The object of education management is the education process. According to the viewpoint of management science, education processes are all random, dynamic social systems, so they are very complex. Managing these objects without deeply understanding them cannot be managed effectively.[39][77]

A common feature of vocational training in the past is: i) Schools self-manage and organize training for teachers, instructors to guide practice, maintain and repair on the basis of the school's existing technological equipment. ii) Part-time instructors are invited to be managers or technicians of enterprises,... without the title of practice teacher. iii) There are no standard documents for teaching according to modules, professional practice and updating new technology.

With the increasingly large scale of training, the increasingly high requirements for training quality,... it is very necessary to build and standardize a management model to manage training programs, training curricula, and standardize training forces.

There are 3 school management models in the world today:

- Model 1: The highest management authority of a university or high school is assigned to a highly educated and prestigious official who gives up his scientific career and becomes a full-time official manager.