The Incontra study center is working on a project with the Management Department of the Sapienza University of Rome to redesign collective agreements in order to enhance the skills of workers. In this perspective, it has also launched a permanent observatory for the mapping of skills established at the university. "Companies are increasingly looking for specific and transversal skills that do not find adequate correspondence in job classification systems. This implies a lack of recognition, not only in terms of role, but also in economic terms for the worker", says the president of the InConTra Study Center, Salvatore Vigorini. "The transition from a job classification to a skills one is in itself a real revolution - explains Vigorini - which will benefit both companies, which will be able to evaluate in a more detailed and effective way the professional figures to be acquired, and the workers, the whose experience and attitudes will be better spent ". The goal of the collaboration between the study center and the university is to achieve a reclassification of personnel in collective bargaining agreements, in the light of the interconfederal agreement of Cifa and Confsal, supported by the Fonarcom interprofessional fund. Compared to the past, a management by competences would allow to represent in a more detailed and effective way the activities and professional contents of each professional figure. Focusing on continuous training and on a renewed role as interprofessional funds such as Fonarcom - explains the president of the study center - "it will be possible to plan interventions of redevelopment and professional conversion, support the selection processes and connect skills and competences to economic progression systems, to favor of the entire economic, productive and social system ". In particular, the mechanism of competence jumps would allow systems of economic progression where the pay gap between workers would be represented by the different degree of knowledge and skills. This new approach is also reflected in a technical table set up at La Sapienza, which is dedicated in particular to the ICT sector, still uncovered by bargaining. "We are working on a transversal model, valid both for the more traditional sectors and for the more innovative ones, in particular the ICT sector and new technologies", explains the researcher of the study center Incontra and of the University Management department, Chiara Meret , which underlines the importance of a system that guarantees a "constant updating of the personnel classification system". According to economist Mauro Gatti, professor of business organization at Sapienza University, "investing in knowledge and skills is synonymous with innovation, growth, productivity, process improvement". "At the systemic level - says Gatti - this has an impact on the entire society".
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