3. ≤ 60% 4. ≤ 80%

Recommendation: In line with the digitalisation strategy, regularly update your employees' digitalisation skills requirements. Update competency profiles as new roles and activities emerge as a result of digitalisation. BELVEDERE resources: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://belvedere-project.eu/belvedere-resources/individual-proficiency/" target="_blank">Assessment of individual digital proficiency</a> (opens in a new window)

5. ≤ 100% 6. no response available

No recommendation for action

1. no 2. yes, there are specific measures in place

Recommendation: Give more consideration to the digital education and training of your employees. Identify in a structured way competence areas where further training or qualification in digital technologies is needed. BELVEDERE resources: <a href="https://belvedere-project.eu/results/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Learning materials and resources</a> (opens in a new window)

5. yes, there is a comprehensive package of measures in place. 6. no response available

No recommendation for action

5. yes 6. no response available

No recommendation for action

5. comprehensive knowledge of the risks 6. no response available

No recommendation for action

3. planning completed 4. yes, implementation started

Recommendation: Follow up on the systematic use of digital learning media in education and training, and ensure that all staff are adequately trained in their use. BELVEDERE resource: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://belvedere-project.eu/results/" target="_blank">Learning materials and resources</a> (opens in a new window)

5. yes, implementation in progress 6. no response available

No recommendation for action

5. ≤ 100% 6. no response available

No recommendation for action

5. yes, all staff and management 6. no response available

No recommendation for action

BELVEDERE – Self Assessment: EMPLOYEES

Subject Area 5: EMPLOYEES

Instructions

Please answer the following questions by clicking on the most appropriate option. Option 1 corresponds to the Newcomer level, option 2 to the Explorer level, option 3 to the Integrator level and option 4 to the Expert level. If you choose option 5, the BELVEDERE project will not be able to give you any further recommendations as you are already very advanced in the process of digital transformation.

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Question 22:
What is the proportion of your workforce with strong digital skills (e.g. data analysis skills, use of standard and collaborative software, communication skills, process knowledge)?

1. ≤ 20%
2. ≤ 40%

Recommendation: Systematically identify the new skills your workforce will need to successfully use digital technologies and intelligent systems. Think not only about IT skills, but also about higher-level skills such as process knowledge or communication skills. Compare this with existing profiles and derive actions.

BELVEDERE resources: Assessment of individual digital proficiency (opens in a new window)

3. ≤ 60%
4. ≤ 80%

Recommendation: In line with the digitalisation strategy, regularly update your employees’ digitalisation skills requirements. Update competency profiles as new roles and activities emerge as a result of digitalisation.

BELVEDERE resources: Assessment of individual digital proficiency (opens in a new window)

5. ≤ 100%
6. no response available

No recommendation for action

Question 23:
Do you train your employees in skills relevant to digitalisation (e.g. IT skills, process know-how, communication skills)?

1. no
2. yes, there are specific measures in place

Recommendation: Give more consideration to the digital education and training of your employees. Identify in a structured way competence areas where further training or qualification in digital technologies is needed.

BELVEDERE resources: Learning materials and resources (opens in a new window)

3. yes, there are several measures in place
4. yes, there are already many measures in place

Recommendation: Integrate your digital literacy efforts into a systematic training and development approach that combines multiple activities and topics. Take into account your employees’ feedback on the training offered. Based on your current digitalisation strategy, regularly update your activities.

BELVEDERE resources: Learning materials and resources (opens in a new window)

5. yes, there is a comprehensive package of measures in place.
6. no response available

No recommendation for action

Question 24:
Do your managers act as a role model for you when it comes to digitalisation?

1. no
2. rather no

Recommendation: Make Digitalisation a leadership issue in your organisation. Try to get your managers excited about the possibilities of digital technologies. Launch initial digitalisation projects with them and selected employees, and provide them with attentive and constructive support. Digitalisation is a matter for the management.

3. partly
4. rather yes

Recommendation: Continue to act as a ‘digital role model’ for your organisation and employees. Use digital technologies in your own area of responsibility. Share your experiences within your organisation. Actively promote the use of digital solutions and (continue to) focus your business strategy on digital aspects.

5. yes
6. no response available

No recommendation for action

Question 25:
How aware are your managers of the risks of digitalisation, e.g. job loss, simplification of tasks?

1. no/very little knowledge of risks
2. low knowledge

Recommendation: Explore ways to improve the skills of managers and make them aware of the risks of digitalisation.

3. average knowledge
4. high knowledge

Recommendation: Develop strategies and handouts for your managers to help them weigh up the opportunities and risks of digitalisation for specific application scenarios and tasks, and derive the strategic decisions relevant to the business.

5. comprehensive knowledge of the risks
6. no response available

No recommendation for action

Question 26:
To what extent are workers and workers’ representatives involved in the design of digital technologies (participation), and to what extent do they support digitalisation projects?

1. very little (the workers’ council is informed in the course of the project; employees are not involved)
2. to a small extent

Recommendation: Many practical experiences show that a higher level of participation in the design of digital technologies contributes significantly to their acceptance and use. Consider actively involving employees in the design of digitalisation projects. On the one hand, this applies to the selection and configuration of technologies at the interface with employees. On the other hand, the use of digital solutions can also change tasks, responsibilities and forms of cooperation. Define these new ways of working with your employees.

3. to a medium extent
4. high (employees are involved in activities from the beginning)

Recommendation: Consistently follow up on employee involvement in the digitalisation projects in your organisation. Check the extent to which employee suggestions can actually be implemented and give appropriate feedback to those involved. Give reasons if suggestions are rejected. Develop a ‘lively culture of participation’.

5. very high (works council is part of the team that is responsible for selecting and implementing the digital solution)
6. no workers’ council present / no response available

No recommendation for action

Question 27:
Are digital learning media used in the context of education and training in your company? (e.g. e-learning, massive open online courses, intelligent learning with the help of work process support systems)

1. no, currently no planning for this
2. no, but planning initiated

Recommendation: Examine the technical and organisational requirements for the use of digital learning media, as well as potential areas of application and subject areas in education and training for which digital learning media are particularly suitable.

BELVEDERE resource: Learning materials and resources (opens in a new window)

3. planning completed
4. yes, implementation started

Recommendation: Follow up on the systematic use of digital learning media in education and training, and ensure that all staff are adequately trained in their use.

BELVEDERE resource: Learning materials and resources (opens in a new window)

5. yes, implementation in progress
6. no response available

No recommendation for action

Question 28:
What is the percentage of your employees who are keen to use new digital technologies (e.g. mobile devices, assistance systems)?

1. ≤ 20%
2. ≤ 40%

Recommendation: Talk to your employees regularly to get a sense of their readiness to work with digital technologies. Involve them in the selection and implementation of digital technologies. Explain the potential benefits and, if necessary, provide initial training in the use of digital technologies. Identify and nurture key users among employees and build them up as drivers of the innovation process.

BELVEDERE resource: Technology acceptance questionnaire (opens in a new window)

3. ≤ 60%
4. ≤ 80%

Recommendation: Regularly collect the experiences of your employees, especially ‚key users’, in working with digital technologies. Use this information to develop your digital technologies. Consider your employees’ suggestions for configuration and use scenarios.

BELVEDERE resource: Technology acceptance questionnaire (opens in a new window)

5. ≤ 100%
6. no response available

No recommendation for action

Question 29:
Are there people in your organisation who act as drivers of digitalisation or digital change (‘change enablers’)?

1. no
2. yes, individual employees

Recommendation: Consider the extent to which you can identify digitally literate employees who are open to a process of change through employee interviews or surveys and, if necessary, get them together in a working group.

3. yes, several employees and at management level
4. yes, majority of employees and at management level

Recommendation: Develop strategies to develop these employees into multipliers to reach and penetrate all areas of the company.

5. yes, all staff and management
6. no response available

No recommendation for action

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References / Acknowledgements
The BELVEDERE Digital Readiness Check is based on work developed by the Institute for Technology and Work (in German: Institut für Technologie und Arbeit, ITA) as part of its collaboration with the Mittelstand-Digital Zentrum Kaiserslautern (i.e. an initiative that provides guidance to small and medium-sized enterprises and the skilled trades in their digital transformation), funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action. Online available at: https://digitalzentrum-kaiserslautern.de/unser-angebot/self-service/readiness-check (last accessed 19 April 2023) in German