OBJECTIVE To evaluate the health information technology (HIT) workforce knowledge and skills needed by HIT employers. METHODS Statewide face-to-face and online focus groups of identified HIT employer groups in Austin, Brownsville, College Station, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Lubbock, San Antonio, and webinars for rural health and nursing informatics. RESULTS HIT employers reported needing an ...

The increasingly competitive nature of the economy, and demographic, occupational and workplace change, have had a significant impact on the nature of the workplace.These changes have meant that the skill level of employees must be continuously developed.The skill mix required by organisations is changing, with employers demanding generic skills such as communication and problem-solving skills,...

Human Resources Management (HRM) is the strategic management of the employees, who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the strategic goals of an organization. Most HRM tasks are based on acquiring the right information and reasoning about skills and competencies of individuals. In this paper we present a formal ontology for competency management and consider three rea...

It is widely accepted that employees in small business suffer from a lack of knowledge and skills. This lack of skills means that small companies will miss out on new business opportunities. This is even more evident with respect to the adoption of Internet marketing in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This paper reports a pilot research project TRIMAR, which aims to develop a web-based int...

We present several quality criteria for skills management initiatives based on the competence-performance approach [Kor97]. The criteria help to measure reliability and validity of a skills management approach and thereby help to determine the suitability of competency assignments in an organisation. The approach is illustrated by a case study. 1 The need for Quality Criteria in Skills Manageme...

We have developed a system based on Answer Set Programming (ASP) for the automatic generation of the teams of employees in the seaport of Gioia Tauro. The problem here is to generate a correct allocation of the available personnel of the international seaport of Gioia Tauro in such a way that the right processing of the shoring cargo boats is guaranteed. To this end several constraints have to ...

In regions with developing or transitioning economies, information and communication technology (ICT) skills are expected to provide potential employees a signiacant edge in securing comparatively high-paying jobs. However, ICT skills are not binary (i.e., there are ranges and levels of ICT skills), nor are the effects of ICT skills common across all contexts. To plan international development ...

Employee retention is one of the challenging issues faced by corporate leaders in any industry as the performance of any business unit depends on its employees. The ability to retain talented and committed employees contributes significantly to the success of the business. As employees are important, so is employee retention an important factor for all companies, especially the small businesses...

PURPOSE To determine the agreement between occupational physician (OP) ratings of an employee's readiness to return to work (RRTW). METHOD Anonymized written vignettes of 132 employees, sick-listed for at least 3 weeks, were reviewed by 5 OPs. The OPs intuitively rated RRTW as the ability (knowledge and skills) and willingness (motivation and confidence) of sick-listed employees to resume wor...