Excellence in Workplace Literacy, Medium Business Winner, 2002: Royal Star Foods

This workplace literacy program encourages learning as a natural part of its daily activities.

Document Highlights

Through a partnership with Workplace Education Prince Edward Island, Royal Star Foods Limited – a seafood processing plant in Tignish, PEI – has been able to provide a range of workplace literacy programs to its seasonal employees and their families. Successes include more confident, knowledgeable and skilled employees and a more productive and efficient workforce.

Since Royal Star Foods became involved in workplace literacy initiatives, over 17 programs have been offered, including computer training, General Equivalency Degree (GED) programs, and customized communications programs.

Royal Star Foods’ workplace literacy model is a winning combination of engaging employees, managers, and program developers in a collaborative process that clearly articulates and defines the learning goals and objectives of both individual employees and the company.

This case study looks at:

• objectives
• activities
• resources
• innovations
• barriers, solutions and outcomes
• benefits