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HR business partner competency models: re-contextualising effectiveness

The rise of ‘HR business partnering’ over the last decade has led to an enormous growth in HR competency models. Competencies are believed to provide a mechanism for reinventing traditional HR roles and improving the effectiveness of HR professionals as business partners. But are they effective? The survey and interview evidence presented here suggest that the effectiveness of competency models...

A Study of HR-XML Based Competency Measurement System

The development of modern information systems and the increasing popularity of the cloud service fore-Recruitment and Selection system has become a new trend for the businesses. However, the majority of the human resource agencies analyze job seekers by considering just their personality, career, interests and work values. Such an analysis makes it difficult for employers to estimate the fitnes...

Technology Management Competency of Healthcare IS Professionals and Its Effects on IT-healthcare Partnerships

This study presents a conceptual model to investigate technology management competency required by healthcare IS professionals and its impacts on IT-healthcare partnerships. Technology management competency, at the broad level, comprises the business strategic thinking, external knowledge resources linkage, healthcare technology integration capability as well as management and interpersonal ski...

Teaching HR Professionals: The Classroom as a Community of Practice

This paper introduces an innovative course design incorporating both communities of practice and reflective practice as a learning strategy for part-time learners in higher education. The new design has been applied to teaching HR practitioners in a UK-based business school. Findings indicate that the suggested way of organizing teaching and learning for part-time professionals is very informat...