Game Changers: How Athletes’ Sports Skills Can Help Promote Economic Development in Ghana’s Oil Industry
By David Lavallee and Ruth Lavallee
The Ghanaian oil sector stands on the cusp of an unprecedented skills crisis and there is an urgent need to find innovative solutions. The significance of human capital is escalating and will eventually surpass financial capital in terms of economic drivers within the oil industry [1]. Sustainable growth depends on Ghana’s workers having the competencies that employers need in an increasingly skills-driven economy. There is, however, significant skills gap in the industry and the shortage of skilled workers will only become greater in the coming decade [2].
Identifying untapped skills within the existing workforce could be one way to help address these issues in the oil sector. Workers who previously competed in sports to an elite level could be a re...