Section 6

to promote productivity consciousness in managements, trade union leaders and workers;

to provide training facilities for managerial and supervisory personnel in all relevant aspects of modern management including general management, personnel management, management accounting, industrial engineering, achievement motivation and supervisory training;

to train workers’ representatives in measures for raising labour productivity, and to relate wages and productivity to competitiveness in export markets and industrial relations;

to promote the development and upgrading of skills and expertise of persons in employment;

to administer the Skills Development Fund in accordance with the Skills Development Levy Act [Cap. 306];

to foster and promote good industrial relations by training and by promoting the formation of joint consultative councils;

to render management consultancy services in the same fields in which training activities are undertaken with a view to assisting industrial enterprises to achieve a general raising of productivity;

to assist industrial establishments and trade unions in formulating and rationalising wage policies and wage systems;

to assist the Government from time to time in shaping a national wage policy;

to undertake manpower and wage studies; and

to provide a library of books, files and other information material to all interested parties.