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Title
Demonstrate knowledge of learning in workplaces, as a Learning
Representative
Level
2
Credits
4
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to demonstrate
knowledge of: the role of a Learning Representative in the
workplace, workplace learning, and adult literacy and numeracy
in the workplace.
Classification
Business Operations and Development > Workplace Relations
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
Unit standards in the Workplace Relations domain are about influences on
employment and workplace expectations and practices, arising from the legal
framework of employment.
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Definitions
Learning Representative refers to an employee who is elected to undertake the role
of advocate and guide with regard to industry training and literacy/numeracy
programmes available through the workplace. The role of advocate includes working
with management to promote and encourage life-long learning for all employees.
Life-long learning means continuing to build on learning and to refresh learning
throughout a working life.
Literacy refers to reading, writing, listening, speaking, maths, problem solving,
creative and critical thinking, and ability to use computers and voice mail.
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This unit standard is
While not a prerequisite, creditexpiring
for this unit standard provides underpinning
knowledge for Unit 23023, Identify strategies a union representative can use to
promote learning, and Unit 23025, Demonstrate knowledge of the purpose and role
of a Learning Representative.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Demonstrate knowledge of the role of a Learning Representative in the workplace.
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Evidence requirements
1.1
The responsibilities and duties undertaken by a Learning Representative in
supporting workplace learning are identified.
Range
1.2
Ways in which a Learning Representative can communicate effectively are
identified.
Range
1.3
communication with – employer, co-workers;
evidence is required of two examples of effective communication
each for employers and for employees.
Support required within the workplace to be an effective Learning
Representative is identified.
Range
1.4
evidence is required of five examples from the candidate’s own
workplace.
may include but is not limited to – time, access to co-workers,
facilities, training, meetings, formal agreement.
Ways in which employers and employees can benefit from having a Learning
Representative onsite are identified.
Range
may include but is not limited to – lowering barriers to accessing
workplace learning, supporting workers with literacy and/or
numeracy needs.
Outcome 2
Demonstrate knowledge of workplace learning.
This unit standard is
The benefits for employers and employees from workplace learning are
identified.
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Evidence requirements
2.1
Range
benefits for employers may include but are not limited to –
increased productivity, quality control, motivated staff, recruitment,
staff retention;
benefits for employees may include but are not limited to – career
progression, greater job security, job satisfaction, further
opportunities for personal development, increased income, better
motivation;
evidence is required for three benefits each for employers and for
employees.
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Potential barriers to employee participation in workplace learning are identified.
Range
barriers – personal, workplace, social;
personal barriers may include but are not limited to – learning
disabilities, time constraints, perceptions, financial difficulties;
workplace barriers may include but are not limited to – peer
pressure, workplace ‘buy in’, access to opportunity, access to
leave, employer perceptions;
social barriers may include but are not limited to – social and
economic, gender, cultural and/or ethnic;
evidence is required for two each of personal, workplace, social
barriers.
Outcome 3
Demonstrate knowledge of adult literacy and numeracy in the workplace.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Adult literacy is described in terms of communication needs.
Range
3.2
The significance of literacy and numeracy in the workplace is identified.
Range
3.3
3.4
communication needs – at work, in the family, in society;
evidence is required of five examples for each.
working with numbers, following instructions, interpreting charts,
spoken language.
Factors leading to low literacy and/or numeracy are identified.
Range
factors include but are not limited to – school experiences, family,
health;
evidence is required for five factors in total.
Range
impacts on – workplace relationships, workplace rights, workplace
safety.
This unit standard is
The impacts of low literacy
and/or numeracy skills on workers’ participation in
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the workplace are identified.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
18 February 2011
31 December 2018
Rollover and
Revision
2
16 February 2012
31 December 2018
Review
3
15 October 2015
31 December 2018
Republished
3
11 March 2016
31 December 2018
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0113
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
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