OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS We hypothesized that personal characteristics of residents may affect how well competency is attained in a surgical residency. To this end, we examined two concepts of global trait emotional intelligence and learner autonomy profile and their factor relationship with competency outcomes in a residency program in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery. STUDY DESIGN A cohort...

This study seeks to identify effects of hair salon selection criteria on consumer behavior and customer satisfaction in recent times provide current management strategies for salons operating under the changing post-corona business conditions. 346 surveys were collected ran through SPSS 21.0 program frequency, reliability multiple regression analysis. The outcome indicated competence relation f...

Ontologies have already been created in different scientific areas, including knowledge and competency management, however few ontological applications are available at the moment. In this paper we present an ontology based application that we have developed for competency management and learning paths. Specifically, we provide an overview of competency management and related work in this area,...

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 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...

Despite the increasing use of simulation games in business education, only few studies have explored cognitive processes that learners employ while playing game, with quite controversial results about students’ learning outcomes. The current study analyses impact a Business Simulation Game (BSG) on related to “Structure Observed Learning Outcome” (SOLO) taxonomy. Moreover, overall performance a...

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...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify the moderating and mediating effects of self-leadership in the relationship between organizational culture and nurses' informatics competency. METHODS Participants in this study were 297 nurses from the cities of Busan and Ulsan. The scales of organizational culture, self-leadership and informatics competency for nurses were used in this study...

Adaptive assessment provides efficient and personalised routes to establishing the proficiencies of learners. We can envisage a future in which learners are able to maintain and expose their competency profile to multiple services, throughout their life, which will use the competency information in the model to personalise assessment. Current competency standards tend to over simplify the repre...

Competency management is a very important part of a well-functioning organisation especially when considering individual long-term development planning and organisational learning. Unfortunately competency descriptions are not uniformly specified nor defined across boarders: National, sectorial or organisational, leading to an opaque competency description market with a multitude of competency ...