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Measuring Competencies of Temporary Staff
Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1997Strategic staffing requires an understanding of a new model, what Charles Handy has named the "Shamrock Organizational Model," in which you have three equally valuable groups of staff a minimal core of full-time staff; a short-term contingency workforce; and a supplemental workforce for long-range temporary staffing needs.
F, Shaffer, A, Kobs
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Measuring software engineering competencies
2015 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2015Measuring competencies may serve as a feedback mechanism as well as a judgment device for a lecturer. As measuring every competency from a catalogue of competencies is not very viable, the to-be-measured competencies are grouped in competency profiles. Further, assessment practices are shown and applied to a course in a study program.
Reimer Studt +2 more
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MEASURING PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE
Journal of the American Medical Association, 1954Many years ago, Charles Victor Roman wrote: "Intercommunication begets confidence. Friendship and cooperation grow with acquaintance. Isolation accentuates differences and dissention thrives on adversity. We dislike what we do not understand and antagonize what is strange to us.
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Understanding and measuring user competence
Information & Management, 1997End User Computing (EUC) is experiencing a resurgence of importance as managers realize it is tied to the new knowledge economy through knowledge-worker productivity. Assessing individual's capabilities with respect to end user technologies is central to both research on EUC and management of EUC in organizations.
Munro, Malcolm C. +3 more
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Measurement of competence: reliability and validity of the TMIG Index of Competence
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 1991The reliability and validity of a multidimensional 13-item index of competence, called the TMIG Index of Competence, were tested with data of 6776 elderly community residents. The index was designed to measure the higher-level competence which could not be adequately assessed by existing scales.
W, Koyano +4 more
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Certification and measuring competency in Israel
Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2000Abstract Ring H. Certification and measuring competency in Israel. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2000;81:1250-2. © 2000 by the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine and the American Academy of Physical Medicine and ...
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Competences: measuring the unmeasurable
Management Development Review, 1996Explains that the concept of competences is being used widely in the sphere of management development as a means for measuring the performance of individuals. This growth in use has taken place without establishing exactly what organizations are referring to when using the term “competence”.
David Robotham, Richard Jubb
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The measure of heterosocial competence
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 2012Guided by the Goldfried and D’Zurilla behavioral-analytic model, we developed and psychometrically evaluated a measure of heterosocial competence and, in doing so, learned more about the construct in young adults. The Measure of Heterosocial Competence (MHC) is a social problem-solving questionnaire assessing competence in challenging other-sex social ...
Rachel L. Grover +4 more
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Measuring and Reporting Competencies
New Directions for Institutional Research, 2001AbstractMeasuring and reporting competencies requires the implementation of new and innovative processes that often conflict with existing systems of measuring and reporting learning outcomes. Examining the ways that some institutions have addressed these issues can be a useful starting point for educators as they begin planning competency‐based ...
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The Measurement of Communicative Competence
Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1987In 1978 Merrill Swain and I had the opportunity to review theory and practice in the emerging communicative orientaitons to second language teaching and testing. The immediate outcomes of that review were published by the Ontario Ministry of Education in the form of a theoretical position paper (Canale and Swain 1979; see also Canale and Swain 1980 ...
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