Preface

**Section 4 Key Competences for Employment 85**

**to Labor Market 87**

Yagüe Blanco

**VI** Contents

Chapter 6 **Traceability of Intra- and Interpersonal Skills: From Education**

Alberto Cerezo-Narváez, María José Bastante Ceca and José Luis

The acquisition of professional skills and the development of human capital are two of the great challenges facing the business environment today. With the latest regulatory changes (ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 published in 2015), the assurance of the skills of workers acquires a special rele‐ vance, and it is therefore necessary to reflect on the acquisition of skills of future workers who acquire these in the university environment as well as their subsequent learning in the workplace.

The book tries to provide a framework for reflection on the relationships between the university education environment and the labor market, we are not only talking about that, by having a qualification, the worker is guaranteed the appropriate skills to develop his work, but his compe‐ tencies must be maintained over time and improved with continuous learning throughout the working life. For this, the book is structured in four sections.

The first section Introduction – short introduction to topic on Human Capital, Knowledge Man‐ agement and Competences in Project Management.

The second section, corresponding to the competences in the educational field, analyzes projectbased learning (PBL) and its effects on social skills in engineering studies, as well as the develop‐ ment of skills in Project Management.

The third section analyzes the competences of the labor market, the discipline of Project Manage‐ ment, and the development of professional competences proposed by the International Project Management Association through its IPMA Competence Baseline (ICB 4.0) standard and its rela‐ tionship with the management of Human Resources in business organizations.

The fourth and last section analyzes the key competences of employment, being necessary to an alignment between the university and the business environment. This study completes the book and provides the traceability of intra- and interpersonal skills, besides being a support to the pro‐ fessional competences in Management of Projects and the ICB 4.0 standard.

The research line started by this book allows us to glimpse the importance of a greater communi‐ cation between the educational field and the working world. This connection should also foster greater development of interpersonal skills, acting as a facilitator for the adaptation of the worker to the changes that the labor world is experiencing in the advent of Industry 4.0. Finally, generat‐ ing knowledge and strengthening human capital is vital, because without people, the challenge of the 4th industrial revolution will not be possible.

Finally, we want to thank all the authors who participated in this book, as they provide differ‐ ent points of view to the challenges facing the education and the world of work to give a better service to society.

> **Manuel Otero-Mateo and Andres Pastor-Fernandez** University of Cadiz, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design, Puerto Real (Cadiz), Spain

**Section 1**
