Vocational Competency Management Through the Use of Serious Games: Opportunities and Risks Using the Example of the Harbour Industry

Abstract

The port economy oscillates between tradition and modernity: On one hand, the port continues to provide unskilled and inappropriately qualified people an entrance to dock work. On the other, the maritime industry reports high levels of specialisation and automation. This as well as the demographic change mean that questions of competence development and operational skills management are very timely. The empirical results of the research project ``Work process-oriented competence development for the port of the future'' prompt discussions on the innovative forms of occupational competency management based on the use of Serious Games.