EMPLOYEES WITHIN THE VIETNAM WOODWOOKING INDUSTRY

        Personnel not directly involved in the production process were 12.78% Labourers accounted for 87.13%. It has to be mentioned however that Suprvisors are as well partly involved in the production process, apart from their team-leading respectively supervising funcions. As general rule - in discussion during the survey - it can be assumed that the productive/non - productive ratio of supervisors is fifty/fifty.

No	WORK FORCE	% Age Prof. to total employee	% Age Prof. to total employee
1	Management, Finance, HR, Admin	3,10%	3,32%
2	Technical Management, QM, Prod. Planning	2,58%	4,38%
3	Marketing & Sales  Product Development	1,31%	1,40%
4	Supervisors, Trainers	0,79%	3,58%
5	Qualified Workers, Permanent	0,19%	0,19%
6	Qualified Workers, Temporary	0,00%	0,00%
7	Unqualified Workers, Permanent (ToJ)	0,05%	78,22%
8	Unqualified Workers, Temporary (ToJ)	0,01%	8,91%
9	TOTAL	8,03%	100%

Note: the temporary workers were calculated by man-months/years
Example: if a compny hdd 120 workers temporarily employed over a period of three (3) months, the 120 were divided by 4 ( which signifies one quater of the year). The result being on averge 30 workers being employed for one year.