Executive Competencies Research Articles

The power of collaboration

The power of collaboration

Determination of administrative proficiencies of head nurses in Turkısh Hospitals

Background: The head nurses are the ones who are responsible for operating care units and managing the nurses in the unit. They are required to have the administrative skills needed to perform these dutiesAim: This study was carried out with the aim of determining the administrative proficiency of head nurses.Methods: The study population comprised head nurses, including nursing instructors working in public and university hospitals in Turkey. The sample included 511 head nurses who were selected within the seven geographical regions of Turkey by simple random sampling. The data gathered in the study, demographic information forms, and the Head Nurse Proficiency Rating Scale were assessed with the t-test in number, percent, and independent groups, one-way analysis of variance, and Tukey Tests.Results: In this study the proficiency level of the head nurses working in Turkey was examined. It was found that they were most proficient in the management of general units and least proficient in care management; but insufficient in planning the future assignment/ career of their employees of subgroups of scala. When considering the factors associated with competencies of the service head nurse; significant statistical differences between all personal characteristics (except professional experience, former training for executive competency and the willing for execution training and competency) and competency were established (p< 0.05).Conclusion: In the light of these results it is suggested that programmes should be provided by schools of nursing, hospitals, the Ministry of Health and occupational nursing organizations for developing proficiency behaviours consisting of care management and personnel management.

What are the competences in information system required by managers? Curriculum development for management and public administration degrees

This paper analyzes the competences required by executives to manage information system, and consequently, the competences that must define the information system subjects in non-technical degrees, degrees, such as Public Administration or Business Management. This work reviews the literature about business managers’ competences on Information Technologies (IT) and compares the theory with the traditional body of knowledge about information systems taught at business schools. By analyzing the executives’ function, their role in the information system management, and, above, all the importance of their decisions in the effective integration of IT in business processes, this work proposes specific development in seven knowledge areas that facilitate the acquisition of these types of executive competences.

Assessing the professional competencies of correctional executives' and senior‐level leaders'

BackgroundThis non‐experimental, quantitative study, examines and validates the National Institute of Corrections' executive and senior‐level leadership competencies and predetermined experiences that should lead to identifying the right correctional leadership development. From the solicitation of correctional executives' and senior‐level leaders' own perceptions.MethodsCorrectional Executives (n = 90) completed a researcher designed measure of leaders perceptions of utilization of NIC competencies and experiences.ResultsOn‐the‐job training and progressive job assignment (serving in a role prior to appointment to a long term or permanent assignment) emerged as favorable ways for developing correctional leadership competencies. Additionally, the results of this study provided evidence supporting some highly predictive dependent variables as beneficial for first time executives in corrections and for effective correctional executive leadership.ConclusionsThe results of the study does not support separating leadership profiles for correctional executives and senior‐level leaders. Study showed that leaders agreed on certain competencies when combining leadership experiences. Finally the biological characteristic ethnicities and organizational size identified as predictable factors for the utilization competencies.

Professional Behavior in Nursing.

Being clear about what constitutes professional behavior is a pathway to effective leadership. Not all nurses come out of educational programs with an understanding about what aspects of behavior signal true professionalism. This article uses the American Organization of Nurse Executives' Nurse Executive Competency for Processional Behavior to help professional development nurse faculty identify role modeling behavior and other aspects that new nurses can use to help them advance in their careers, while improving care to patients and families.

The Clean Power Plan, the Supreme Court's Stay, and Irreparable Harm

Invited by the American Constitution Society, this very short essay critiques the decision by the Supreme Court to stay implementation of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), the cornerstone of the Obama Administration’s climate policy, while twenty-nine states proceed with litigation against it. The CPP targets greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, which account for about a third of all U.S. carbon emissions. It provides for substantial flexibility in how reduction targets may be attained within states, but generators heavily invested in coal argue that implementation will require unfair and expensive changes. It therefore surprised no one that states closely aligned with the coal industry are challenging the CPP in court. However, the Supreme Court’s unprecedented move to stay the rule — before the issues had even been aired in open court — surprised everyone. The courts owe the plaintiffs’ arguments their most serious consideration, but the novel stay raises concerns of a different order. It represents another move by the Supreme Court to shift power toward the judiciary on matters that relate not to individual constitutional rights, where judicial prowess necessarily overtakes the majoritarian tendencies of the political branches — but to the complex allocation of costs and benefits within a comprehensive regulatory program, where judicial capacity is easily eclipsed by legislative and executive competence. If the justices find legal infirmity after carefully engaging the evidence, it is their duty to reject the rule. But when the Court breaks with its own norms to block the President’s capstone climate initiative for the remainder of his final term — before meaningful judicial review of the merits — the move may approach the boundaries of the appropriate use of its own authority. If it does not invite pause about the constitutional separation of powers, it at least gives cause to reflect on the lessons of the Lochner era.After critiquing the stay and its potential consequences for the fragile international consensus to move forward on climate governance, the essay concludes on a more hopeful note. Drawing on ongoing economic and technological shifts in the wider energy marketplace, it argues that while the stay has dealt a serious blow to the CPP in the short term, it should not be the death knell for the underlying elements of the plan, for U.S. compliance with the Paris accord, or for continued momentum toward a global response to the climate crisis.

EXPLAINING THE COMPETENCIES OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGERS IN TEHRAN MUNICIPALITY (ELEVEN REGIONAL CASE STUDY)

This study evaluates the situation existence in areas of competence, comparison the mean of sextet competencies of executives and determines priorities of competences of managers in order to identify the competencies of human resource managers of eleven area municipality of Tehran.The sample size is composed of 118 people in the form of census and is equal to statistical population.This research was done with two methods of library and survey. The tools of data collecting are a questionnaire with sextet indicators of Ulrich that has been made by researcher andCronbach's alpha has used to assess the reliability and factor analysis and face credibility for validity. Based on the research findings, competencies of human resource managers of eleven area municipality of Tehran have a lower average than the studied average.Among the studied competencies, competence of talented and designer manager of organization had the highest mean (2.568) and credible activist competence have the lowest average (2.314). Architect's realm have the strategy of the lowest factor loading and correlation and the authentic activist realm have the highest factor loading and correlation with competences of human resources.All variables have a high relation of correlation with each other, according to the value of sig and t is rejected the assumption of equality of average of responses in various areas. In the one-way variance analysis test, the H_0 assumption means that lack of difference between the averages of areas is rejected and average of responses has significant difference between areas.Friedman's test indicates the difference of rating of territories. According to results of this study, it is suggested, Managers identify skills related to competencies of talent manager and the designer of organization and strategic architecture and take steps to acquire and implement them.

Peer coaching for nurse managers.

Peer coaching for nurse managers.

Correlates of External Quality Assessment and Improvement Programs in Internal Auditing: A Study of 68 Countries

ABSTRACT We use survey responses from 1,053 chief audit executives (CAEs) of public companies located in 68 countries to investigate the theoretical correlates of the use of external quality assessment and improvement programs (ExternalQAIP) for the Internal Audit Function (IAF). Our test variables are (1) internal quality assessment and improvement programs (InternalQAIP) and its related components and IAF performance measures, (2) chief audit executive competence, (3) audit committee involvement with the internal audit, (4) IAF age, (5) IAF outsourcing status (in-house or outsourced), and (6) the nature of the IAF's work (work performed by IAF). We find support for our hypothesized associations between various measures of InternalQAIP and ExternalQAIP. We also find significant and positive results for associations between audit committee involvement and IAF age and ExternalQAIP. However, we do not find significant results for in-house or outsourcing of internal audit activities, CAE competence, or control variables. Our results should be of interest to management, CAEs, corporate boards, regulators, and external auditors. Data Availability: Please contact The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation (IIARF) that owns the CBOK (2010) database used in this study.

Effect of Information Service Competence and Contextual Factors on the Effectiveness of Strategic Information Systems Planning in Hospitals

Many hospitals in Taiwan have started to encounter new and fierce competition as a result of the enactment of the National Health Insurance Policy in 1995. Hospitals should strive to use information technology (IT) strategically to improve their competitive advantage and meet the dynamic challenges in this competitive environment. This study adopts the Technology-Organization-Environment framework to understand the effects of contextual factors (e.g., environmental uncertainty and information intensity) and information service competence on the effectiveness of strategic information systems planning (SISP) to improve hospital management efficiency. A field survey was conducted using questionnaires distributed to accredited hospitals that serve patients from different regions/districts and with academic teaching qualifications/capabilities. These hospitals represent approximately a quarter of all hospitals in Taiwan. The findings show that the environmental unpredictability and business competence of IS executives are negatively related to the two SISP constructs: IT participation in the hospital planning and alignment of the IT plan with the comprehensive hospital plan. In addition, the findings demonstrate that information intensity has a significantly positive relation to both aforementioned SISP constructs. Finally, both constructs justify the significant positive correlations with the use of IT in increasing competitive advantages and improving the satisfaction of customers and end users. This research intends to guide the healthcare industry in raising competitive advantages to improve the operational efficiency of hospital management in today's highly digitalized environment.

Interpersonal Competencies of Executives in Service Organizations

Interpersonal competency is highly essential for today's managers to perform constructive interactions with mutual benefits. This paper assesses the interpersonal competencies of Executives in service industry, which is considered to be one of the people-oriented sectors and also comprises of complex business activities. An empirical research was undertaken in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, which finds that women are relatively poor with respect to their interpersonal competency than men and the executives working in different type of Service organizations may work for similar organizational goals but vary in their interpersonal capabilities.

Executive functions and social competence in children with cerebral palsy

Executive functions and social competence in children with cerebral palsy

Dyadic Collaboration Among Preschool-Age Children and the Benefits of Working With a More Socially Advanced Peer

Research Findings: This study examined the learning effects of collaborative group work under heterogeneous group composition among 5-year-old children, especially in terms of their social skills. To this end, the study utilized an experimental research design wherein 3 groups of differently composed dyads and a group of students who worked alone completed classification and perspective-taking tasks. The dyads consisted of a low-ability child and either a socially advanced, an intellectually advanced, or a (both) socially and intellectually advanced peer. First, we found that children with high ability and those with low ability in collaborative dyads had higher learning gains than singletons. This finding supports the benefits of collaborative learning for experts as well as novices and the effectiveness of mixed-ability groupings for young children’s learning. Second, we observed that low-ability children working with socially advanced partners, even partners with low cognitive ability, showed significantly greater improvement in the perspective-taking task than those working with a cognitively advanced but socially less skilled partner. We discuss the findings in terms of the relation between executive function and social competence and emphasize the value of social skills in cognitive development. Practice or Policy: We propose suggestions for teaching practice and further research.

Joan Shinkus Clark, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, CENP, FACHE, FAAN

Dr. Joan Shinkus Clark is the senior vice president and system chief nursing officer for Texas Health Resources (THR) headquartered in Arlington, Texas. Dr. Clark joined the THR leadership team in 2008, assuming overall responsibility for the nursing enterprise across the THR system. THR has 25 acute care and short-stay hospitals that are owned, operated, joint-ventured, or affiliated with the system, representing more than 3,800 licensed beds. THR has more than 21,100 employees at fully owned and operated facilities plus 1,400 employees of consolidated joint ventures and more than 5,500 physicians with active staff privileges. In her system role, Dr. Clark has responsibility for advancing strategic nursing initiatives and represents nursing at the senior executive level. Dr. Clark has also been a member of AONE for 25 years and has served AONE and chapter affiliates in Texas, Florida, and Georgia on numerous committees and in multiple elected positions, including 2 terms: 1 as Region 4 and as Region 7 AONE board director.

The Plaza Accord as a Catalyst for Accelerated Growth in Southern and Southeast Asia

The rapid growth of many of the South and Southeast Asian economies in the last quarter of the previous century was quite remarkable. Some writers referred to the phenomenon as “the Asian Miracle.” Miracle or not, growth in these economies was quite rapid.Over the years reports and articles have elucidated explanations for the occurrence. The World Bank’s study report (World Bank, 1993), for example, focuses on the unique mix of public policies that were used by various economies in the region. These policies often relied upon close supervision and control of those economies by the implementing governments. Targeting, by the governments, of sectors for growth is often one part of the explanations that have been proffered, as is an “export push” approach to growth. The economic wisdom and competence in execution of the bureaucrats who husbanded this growth no doubt played a large role in fostering the growth. However, one can ask, “Why those economies? Why there? Why then?”

Exploring the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and corporate performance

Purpose– The aim of this study is to explore the mediating role of executive competency in entrepreneurial-orientated corporations between entrepreneurial orientation and corporate performance.Design/methodology/approach– The authors conducted a survey of entrepreneurial-oriented enterprises mainly located in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenyang, Dalian, Anshan, Chengdu, Guiyang, Wuhan, Taiyuan, Xi’an, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and so on, areas which cover North China, northeast of China, Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, and are largely representative of the population as a whole. A total of 300 questionnaires were issued with 276 returns, a response rate of 92 per cent; 248 of these were valid.Findings– First, executive competency in entrepreneurial-oriented corporations has four dimensions. These are profession features, concept features, interpersonal features and individual internal drive features; 15 competency elements are included in the above dimensions. Second, entrepreneurial orientation does improve corporate performance, and the positive influence is mainly through two dimensions, which are innovation and antecedence. Third, executive competency has a positive influence on corporate performance, thus confirming the effectiveness of executive competency as a dependent variable. Finally, executive competency has a partial mediating influence on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and corporate performance, with a full mediating influence on innovation and corporate performance, and a partial mediating influence on antecedence and corporate performance.Originality/value– The conclusions have important implications. Theoretically, the executive competency model, which fits entrepreneurial orientation, is constructed, and the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and corporate performance is enriched and extended to include executive competency, which provides a theoretical foundation and empirical support for understanding and explaining entrepreneurial strategy in Chinese corporations. In terms of practical implications, this study helps entrepreneurial-orientated corporations to develop a proper human resources management system to recruit, evaluate, train and develop executives, resulting in continuous performance improvement.

As operações urbanas consorciadas como instrumento de promoção do meio ambiente urbano saudável

The article 182 of Federal Constitution of Brazil establishes that urban policy, a municipalities execution competence, aims to observance of social functions of the city, ensuring the population need’s and the basic rights of citizens, especially the well-being of the local residents. Today, the urban well-being includes the social and the infrastructure improvements and environment protection. Therefore, the Federal Law n. 10.257, July 10 th 2001, provides the consociate urban operation as the instrument that allows the participative and joint action between the local government and the citizens, equating the urban development with the right to an ecologically balanced environment, facing the problems directly and promoting the citizenship.

Letters

Letters

Belief and Death: Capital Punishment and the Competence-for-Execution Requirement

A curious and comparatively neglected element of death penalty jurisprudence in America is my target in this paper. That element concerns the circumstances under which severely mentally disabled persons, incarcerated on death row, may have their sentences carried out. Those circumstances are expressed in a part of the law which turns out to be indefensible. This legal doctrine—competence-for-execution (CFE)—holds that a condemned, death-row inmate may not be killed if, at the time of his scheduled execution, he lacks an awareness of his impending death or the reasons for it. I argue that the law of CFE should be abandoned, along with the notion that it is permissible to kill the deeply disturbed just so long as they meet some narrow test of readiness to die. By adopting CFE, the courts have been forced to give independent conceptual and moral significance to a standard for competence that simply cannot bear the weight placed upon it. To be executable, CFE requires that a condemned prisoner meet a standard demonstrating an awareness of certain facts about his death. Yet this standard both leads to confusing and counter-intuitive results and is unsupported either by the reasons advanced by the courts on its behalf or by any of the standard theoretical justifications of criminal punishment. If executing the profoundly psychotic or delusional is wrong the law needs a better account of the wrong done when prisoners like Ford are killed. I suggest wherein that wrong might be located.

Studying the Effect of Managerial Executive Competencies on Marketing Effectiveness in Firms

The major purpose of the current study was studying the effect of managerial executive competencies on marketing effectiveness in firms on customer philosophy, integrated marketing efforts, marketing information, market orientation and operational efficiency. The statistical population included seventy marketing managers of a food industry in Jey township located in Isfahan that the whole population was studied due to the fact that the statistical population was limited. So no sampling was needed. Questionnaire was used to collect the required data that contained 38 questions about research variables. Construct validity was used to investigate validity of the questionnaire and the obtained results revealed that the applied questionnaire had a suitable validity. The reliability was calculated by means of Cronbach's alpha coefficient which was equal to 0.897 for the whole questionnaire. It was an acceptable coefficient that confirmed reliability of the questionnaire. Descriptive indexes such as frequency tables and statistical diagrams were used to describe the statistical population in order to analyze research data and a general view of subjects was obtained. Then quantitative methods of statistical analysis including Kolmogoroff-Smirnoff test, correlation coefficient and structural equations modeling were used for data analysis and testing of hypotheses. To this end, SPSS 20 and LISREL software were applied. The obtained results indicate that all hypotheses were confirmed. Therefore, managerial competencies have a significant and positive effect on marketing effectiveness.