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Competences, distinctive competences, and core competences

2010
In order to elaborate the concept of resources (a key component of the well-established resource-based theory of the firm) this paper concentrates on exploring and elaborating the associated concept of competences, in particular distinctive and core competences.
Eden, Colin, Ackermann, Fran
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Surgical Competence

World Journal of Surgery, 2003
AbstractRecent high‐profile cases have heightened the need for a formal structure to monitor achievement and maintenance of surgical competence. Logbooks, morbidity and mortality meetings, videos and direct observation of operations using a checklist, motion analysis devices, and virtual reality simulators are effective tools for teaching and ...
Wong, J, Patil, NG, Cheng, SWK
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The competence to be competent

Paper in Linguistics, 1981
Abstract Competence is the ability to act appropriately in a situation. The grammatical rules of linguistic competence must play an important role in defining the situation and planning an appropriate action. A skill crucial to performing competently is the ability to shift or sustain the focus of attention.
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A Comparative Research on Competency and Competence, Competency Model and Competence Model

2012
This chapter reviews the specific benchmark literature about the concepts of competence, competency model, occupational competence, competence at work and explores their logic relationship to one another. Based on this work, conceptual comparisons of competency and competence, competency model and competence model are presented.
Yue Kou, Zhiyong Jia, Yihua Wang
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To compete or not to compete?

Governments, and in many instances, private and non-profit sector acquisition professionals (e.g., contracting officers, contracting specialist, procurement officials, etc.) are authorized to bypass traditional methods of directly competing contracts on the open market, and applying more streamlined 'indirect' procedures when certain favorable ...
Devin Delon Banks, David Gefen
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Competence, Teacher Competence and Professional Error Competence: An Introduction

2017
In the context of the impact teachers have on students’ learning (teachers matter), there is an increasing interest in teachers’ competences, which are seen as an amalgam of professional knowledge, beliefs, motivational orientation, and self-regulation. Following Shulman, professional knowledge in turn comprises content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge
Wuttke, Eveline, Seifried, Jürgen
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Tractable Competence

Minds and Machines, 2001
Summary: In the study of cognitive processes, limitations on computational resources (computing time and memory space) are usually considered to be beyond the scope of a theory of competence, and to be exclusively relevant to the study of performance.
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Making Competent Judgments of Competence

2013
Comprehensive English dictionaries list multiple meanings for the words “competence” and “competency”. Although the variety of meanings may not matter in ordinary conversations, in rigorous thinking about the measurement and development of competence or competencies, clarity is indispensable.
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Competency and Competence

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2009
Marvin L, Birnbaum, Elaine K, Daily
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How Competent are Competencies?

Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance, 2014
Competencies have become ubiquitous in not only human services administration but also in related contexts.
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