This paper describes an exploratory study using a modified competency profiling methodology (1) to study effective leadership in a sample of high functioning family businesses. Competency modeling links leadership behavior, self-concept and motivation to empirically successful firm outcomes. The five leaders or leadership teams interviewed in the study exhibited similarities across six competen...

The concepts of interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), cultural competency and primary healthcare (PHC) appear to be linked in theory and practice. This discussion article provides arguments explicating the potential linkages between IPCP and cultural competency. We argue that cultural competency is an important component of IPCP both for relationships with patients and/or communities...

This brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by Health Workforce Australia (HWA) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. The project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the Australia...

The authors of this paper have used the assessment of competence as a fuzzy discrete set consisting of essential capacities. There has been proposed a procedure of competence quantitative estimation on the basis of discrimination index of discrete fuzzy sets fixed on one totality. A linguistic variable “Competency coefficient” has been used here for making appropriate decisions on the grounds o...

Teacher shortage is arguably one of the biggest challenges impacting public education in U.S. On hand, teachers are leaving profession due to lack support and low pay rates, while on other number students entering traditional teacher preparation continue decline. This article introduces five articles included this special issue The New Educator. It highlights how institutions higher education, ...

In veterinary medical education, it is now necessary to design competency frameworks (CFs) that list expected competencies at graduation. Three different CFs with different formats and contents have been published in Europe, such as the Day One Skills (DOS), the recommendations of the World Organization for Animal Health(OIE), and the Veterinary Professional (VetPro). In the current study, on t...

This paper presents results of topic modeling and network models of topics using the ICCS corpus, which contains domain-specific (computational science) papers over sixteen years (a total of 5695 papers). We discuss topical structures of ICCS, how these topics evolve over time in response to the topicality of various problems, technologies and methods, and how all these topics relate to one ano...