the aim of this paper is to highlight the issue of managerial competencies and competency model in industrial enterprises. this paper builds upon the theory of knowledge processing and its role as a theoretical basis for knowledge development in the area of managerial competencies. managerial competencies are becoming one of the key building blocks of success in a company to achieve both the mi...

Cultural competency has been lauded as an effective, direct intervention to address health care disparity issues, and there is much empirical and clinical evidence to support the utility of cultural competency training. The major criticism of this evidence is the paucity of content validation studies of the competency construct itself. This literature review addresses what has been repeatedly i...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to analyze the content and volume of literature that has been written on cultural competency in emergency medicine (EM) since its educational imperative was first described by the Institute of Medicine in 2002. METHODS We conducted a comprehensive literature search through the PubMed portal in January 2015 to identify all articles and reviews that ...

This paper seeks to suggest ways to support informal, self-directed, work-integrated learning within organizations. We focus on a special type of learning in organizations, namely on competency development, that is a purposeful development of employee capabilities to perform well in a large array of situations. As competency development is inherently a self-directed development activity, we see...

Today stringent customer demands, accelerated time-to-market schedules , and high levels of quality have put companies under pressure to adapt and modernize their product development processes. The ability to succeed over the long term on global markets depends in large part on keeping up with dynamic and constantly changing conditions. One way to meet these challenges is the organization of pr...

It is well acknowledged that Human Resources are one of the most important assets of a company; as a consequence, Competency Management became a well established approach for organizing workforce recruitment, training and development. At the same time, Competency Management is more and more moving towards a tight integration with business and knowledge management frameworks, having a crucial ro...

Although literature suggests that providing culturally sensitive care promotes positive health outcomes for patients, undergraduate medical education currently does not provide adequate cultural competency training. At most schools, cultural competency, as a formal, integrated, and longitudinal thread within the overall curriculum, is still in its infancy. In this article, the authors summarize...

Introduction: This study identifies and analyzes the levels of relations between decision-making competency, self-determination, and health lifestyle in nursing students. Methods: This study was designed as a descriptive research to identify the relations of nursing students’ decision-making competency, self-determination, and health lifestyle. The subjects were 187 nursing students. Data were ...

82 Sandra Lovell is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist at ERM, UK and has worked across numerous high hazard industries including mining, manufacturing and oil & gas. She specialises in organisational culture and safety, human factors in system design, performance assessment & development in safety critical tasks and training systems. She has trained leaders in safety and in assessing compet...

in this article, the ontology based approach for modeling and management of profiles and competencies in virtual organization breeding environment (vbe) is presented. the main aim of creating the profile and competency ontology of vbe participants is utilizing them in the development of the intelligent agent for choosing the best partners in order to perform the research projects in the informa...