Enhancing the quality of Vietnam’s human resources in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution is predicted to make significant changes to the labour supply and demand, as the Revolution requires workers with highly professional skills, knowledge, as well as innovate and creative ability to be able to catch up with advanced technologies. Therefore, for the countries heavily relying on the golden demographic structure for economic growth as Vietnam, enhancing the quality of human resources will be essential to adopt with the new changes in this context. With brief research of the theoretical basis of human resources and human resources development, this article focuses on analyzing the labour quality enhancing policies of Vietnam, from that proposing solutions for Vietnam to raise the quality of the human resources to catch up with the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

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Thanh Lam Ha

Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Email: lamthanhha@dav.edu.vn
Senior Lecturer

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