همکاری بخش های خصوصی و دولتی در تامین نیروی کار و توسعه ی بهره وری کار در صنعت موتورسازی Cooperation between public and private sectors in providing workforces and development of labor efficiency in the motorcycle industry

Introduction Development in upgrading labor efficiency to increase national competitiveness is important (National Reform Council [NRC], 2015), particularly in industry sectors that generate important revenue for Thailand. Thailand also has high potential in the motorcycle manufacturing industry for both export worldwide and the domestic market which the government initiated as part of its vision of being the Detroit of Asia since 2002 and defined the vision in the 2021 as being the automotive manufacturing base of the world. The industry lead manufacturing of other supportive industries (Thai Auto Institute, 2012) and positively contributes to the labor market by employing large workforces. During 2004e2014, the trend in Thailand’s labor market increased; however, from 2014 onward, the unemployment rate increased by 28.17 percent compared to 2013. Nevertheless, Thailand’s economy has been expanding with demand for an increasing workforce (Ministry of Industry, 2015). This reflected the fact that while, in general, Thailand lacked a sufficient workforce in the sector, there was a greater number of unemployed people. In other words, this indicated that the structure providing the workforces was not consistent with labor demand in the industrial sector; in particular, skilled labor was neither compatible with the education system nor labor skills (Nguyen, 2015). Hence, the current research aimed to study the progress of the educational policies and education curricula, to understand workforce development as well as to understand the cooperation among the main responsible public agencies, the private agencies, and the public and the private sector agencies by focusing on the motorcycle manufacturing industry to fill gaps in consistency and to lead to improved cooperation as well as mutually strengthening. Based on the discussion, four research questions were proposed: (1) Are the education curricula consistent with the demand for workforces? (2) Do the concerned public agencies and the private agencies cooperate with each other in providing workforces and what are the types, problems, and causes of the problems of the cooperation? (3) What cooperation is there on labor effi- ciency development that affects labor capabilities? (4) What are the appropriate policies and management and the appropriate model of cooperation in providing workforces and development of labor efficiency for the industry in the future? The results of this research can benefit the public and private sectors in their cooperation regarding workforce provision and labor efficiency development in line with the demand of the industry and national development in the future.