1. Continuing education for highway building specialists Author:Julius Christauskas Vilnius Gediminas Technical University

2. Participants of TQM TQM ConsumersSuppliersProducers

3. Characteristic of the Participants Working asSEPQJSCTotal Director and deputy director (top level) 4711 Head of work, head of project (middle level) 15272466 Director of the department (top level) 412218 Engineer, master (lower level)222850 Technician (lower level)15

4. Main Branches Needed to be Improved in the Road Enterprises Branches needed to be improved in the enterprise SEPQJSCTotal n%n%n%n% Enterprise management1737,81324,12642,65635,0 Marketing00611,11626,22213,8 Selection of personnel1533,33055,61423,05936,9 Finance, taxes511,11629,61016,43119,4 Quality evaluation and assurance 613,31222,2813,12616,2 Building law24,40046,663,8 Labor law48,91833,31016,43220,0 Tender documentation920,035,61524,62716,9 New building technologies2248,91833,32134,46138,1 Information technologies1840,03666,71727,97144,4 Other branches24,41018,523,3148,8 It is not known24,40034,953,1

5. Ability of participants to pay for their qualification improvement

6. Qualification Improvement Forms

7. Wishes of Participants for Most Convenient Time for Qualification Improvement

8. The most convenient time for qualification improvement

9. Most effective way for qualification improvement

10. The qualification of respondents

11. Abilities of Use Foreign Languages Langua ge SEPQJSCTotal N%n%N%n% Russian 4497,854100,061100,015999,4 English 1226,72240,71829,55232,5 German 715,6916,7711,52314,4 French 12,223,711,642,5 Polish 511,1814,834,91610,0 Other 12,211,90021,2

12. Duration of the Continuing Education Time Spent for Qualification Improvement During Last Year

13. The decision about necessity of qualification improvement

14. The information about new technologies

15. The person who is responsible for qualification improvement in the organization

16. Importance of Qualification Improvement Process

17. Expectations from the Qualification Improvement

18. Conclusions  Attempts to implement continuing education often are not successful;  Highway building specialists first of all need implementation of information technologies enlarging level of conformity to the needs of road users;  Highway building specialists also need implementation of new building technologies, machinery and materials;  There is a need of ensuring quality and efficiency of continuing education.

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