Principles and Practice

Democratisation requires innovative actions from all sections of society from time to time. The challenges of today's life are no longer from routine causes, but from new situations that require rapid response, innovation, enterprise, and responsibility. The world of work is ethically moving away from the traditional factory-based employment to a modern field-based employment (in the form of self-employment or partnership businesses).

In this direction, the capital-formation of business is moving more and more from factory-based profit-making approach to field-regeneration stakeholding (as the new capital). JCFDP is stakeholding for organisations that have worked to lay a foundation or establish an efficiency for specific areas in field-work including partnership work, social integration/regeneration, vocational mentoring, and community economic development. It has been given the task of certifying individuals and agencies in field development practice whose work stay in such areas. The aim is to secure field-employment or profitable stakeholding for valid individuals and agencies. It is also to lay in society a stream of self-employment practices, rapid field responses, innovative field actions, and successful field enterprises - to inform policy development/review.

In doing these, JCFDP is

[A] working to bring remedial measures in the following areas:

The traditional assessment practice
The traditional system is producing a mass of machinists in the name of standards. Most methodology and evaluation for awarding standards are based on routine occurrences, which usually have no bearing on today's challenges. Yet, there are growing technological equipments to do these in the modern world. This has to be balanced by a serious certification of innovators and successful field entrepreneurs.

The traditional system of awarding standards is based on the greedy tendencies of industry/businesses who want to mass produce. Consequently they look for standards in their routine areas of productivity or service-delivery that lead to mass production. Yet, market (particularly with the population who have higher purchasing power) is turning away from mass products to tailor-made products.

Work place disorder
Politics in the work-place is becoming more rewarding than the hard work of enhancing business effectiveness, productivity, and innovation. Most talented workers are made to resign under the pressure, and remain bitter for the rest of their lives. Such persons can be encouraged to work successfully as field development practitioners.

Most mid-level career person and mid-level managers are working as field development practitioners. They are asked to increase market share and take responsibility. Yet they are not certified as field development practitioners.

Job assistants
Field research assistants and job trainees are being forced to work as field development practitioners by virtue of the level of field involvement required of them. They can be certified, and assisted to become more productive in the field.

[B] Securing opportunities and asset-rights for field development practitioners, exemplified as follows:

New products/services
Industry and businesses claim from time to time that they have got new products/services. Today, the so-called new products have remained the monopoly of established industries/businesses. Yet these so-called new products/services have long been known or even attempted by talented individuals and potential innovators. The system as it exists has robbed these individuals of their place in asset rights and record in history. In this climate the system keeps blinding such persons from the possibility of a successful achievement in what will come to be known tomorrow as a "new field".

Hidden assets in field pioneering work
Tomorrow's potential veterans of enterprise and businesses are already working in unnoticed fields. They need mentoring, refresher courses, project extensions and certification to own the assets in their pioneering work - not unnecessarily years of traditional classroom repetitive desk life, or tagging unto any accreditation agency.

Hidden assets in foundation work
There are individuals and agencies whose pioneering works have laid a foundation and reference for measuring standards of critical learning and skills. In most situations, their investments in the field are often buried and forgotten, and their innovations are abandoned because usually
" there are no certified field development practitioners to give them a room/leg to operate with a measure of competitive advantage, or
" the individuals/agencies have no avenue to get appropriately certified, and stand on their own feet to own the assets in their field investments or hold a significant stakehold in the particular field.