Abstract
D.Phil.
There is attentive focus on skills shortage and skills gap management to address the
increasing industry reporting on the difficulty to find suitable candidates for employment. This study examined the organisation’s decisions and behaviour towards skills management in the Engineering and Technology disciplines and found evidence of inadequate skills management. A Skills Gap Management Model is offered and introduces the concept of a job fitness ratio as the guiding principle that organisations
can and should adopt to take control of improved job definitions to clearly articulate
its skills demand to enable an improvement in the skills matching processes...