Human Competence Research Articles

The impact of practical aspects of communication and thinking skills formation on improving self-management skills in university students

Introduction. The universities around the world attach great importance to acquiring self-management skills for students while training at the university. Recent studies have proven that these skills have a major role in the development of human personality and academic competencies. Communication and thinking skills are considered to be one of the most important skills that have become taught and have been included in the curricula in almost all Saudi universities. This process involves both theoretical and practical aspects, aiming to provide the student with the necessary knowledge to deal with the other, to use new technologies, to be able to think positively, and to solve problems.The aim of the present research is to assess the impact of communication and thinking skills formation on the development of self-management skills among male and female students of the preparatory year in Northern Border University (Arar, Saudi Arabia).Methodology and research methods. In the course of the research, the survey method was applied. The survey received responses from 400 students of eight faculties from the Northern Border University (200 male and 200 female students). To draw comparisons between male and female students’ perspectives, the Student’s t-test was used. The research hypotheses were validated, and the obtained data were statistically processed.Results. The survey results indicate that there is a substantial difference in male and female student perspectives regarding the impact of communication and thinking skills. It was found out that male students had a much more positive perspective while considering its impact on self-development, on the development of successful social circles, and the ability to teamwork. On the other hand, according to the female students, the development of communication and thinking skills has a positive impact on problem-solving ability, mental ability, intellectual development, creative thinking, and practical life application or life realism of students.Scientific novelty. The present study confirms the importance of the implication of academic programmes aimed at students’ self-development; as such training programmes allow students to cope with the challenges of the era of technology and remote communication. In addition to training programmes directed to positive thinking in the light of the challenges facing the world such as terrorism, extremist ideology, and racism, this study comes as an important step towards enhancing self-development skills in the field of communication and human reasoning for undergraduate students.Practical significance. The authors formulated the recommendations to reform the system of particular educational services, to improve their quality due to the fastest, synchronous implementation of technological innovations and modern equipment, and to support teachers’ competencies at the proper level. The importance of media education development actualises the creation of academic programmes at universities for the training of qualified teachers in the field of specific education, especially for countries, which do not have the same experience of training, since media education is becoming compulsory in the contemporary world, increasingly affecting the formation of individuals, culture, and society. Several proposals have been made to promote further research in this direction.

THE ROLE OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE IN ACHIEVING COMPETITIVENESS AT SUHAR UNIVERSITY IN THE SULTANATE OF OMAN

This quantitative study discussed the role of human capital and institutional performance in achieving competitiveness at Sohar University. The problem emerged that the university suffers from a weak system of research and development, in a climate that does not support creativity and innovation; What made it lose to many human cadres with experience, competence and qualifications, due to the university's lack of interest in the human component, which negatively affected institutional performance, and the university lost its competitive advantage. Therefore, the study aimed to diagnose the reality of human capital and institutional performance at Sohar University and their role in achieving competitiveness. The study includes the descriptive analytical method, and the questionnaire used contains (95) phrases distributed in three axes for the data collection. The study population consisted of (526) academics and administrators working at the university. A random sample was chosen according to the schedule of Grace and Morgan (1970) based on (222) academic and administratives. The findings revealed that: the level of human capital and institutional performance at Sohar University was (average), and the level of competitive performance was (high), and this indicates that the university possesses traditional methods in human resources management, despite its endeavor to apply global best practices, to achieve A distinguished position that makes it competitive in the labor market. The results also showed; The high level of human capital competencies at the University of Sohar, and the commitment of workers to expected behaviors, and a high level of awareness. Also, there is a statistically significant effect of the human capital variable on achieving competitiveness through the institutional performance of workers at Sohar University in the Sultanate of Oman.

Just-in-Time system in terms of real options

The value creation process in a company and the competitive position are critically influenced by corporate resource allocation and proper valuation of investment alternatives. After the Second World War, capital budgeting and strategic planning emerged as two complementary but different systems for resource allocation. The real options approach developed in the ’80s may provide a useful tool for making a connection between capital budgeting and strategic management. Real options are implicit managerial and operating flexibilities embedded in many non-financial assets and liabilities. In a wider sense: “A real option is the investment in physical assets, human competence, and organisational capabilities that provide the opportunity to respond to future contingent events” (Kogut-Kulatilaka, 2001). This paper shows that Just-in-Time (JIT) system as management philosophy can be regarded as a knowledge-based or capability-based implicit strategy rather than a simple, easy-toimitate best practice approach. Moreover, implementation of JIT can be considered as a strategic investment. The presentation focuses on how the relation among strategic investments, developed technological systems and corporate strategy can be expressed through the real options view.

Новые способы оценки качества образования в профессиональных высших учебных заведениях

In this article, the problem of knowledge quality has become a subject of public attention in recent years. The creation of organizational models for quality control of education and the regulatory framework for the national system for evaluating the quality of education is one of the priorities of the educational policy of our Republic. The creation of such a system, on the one hand, forces the need to ensure state guarantees of education, and on the other-stimulates the legitimate interest of clients in quality education. The quality assessment means the evaluation of educational achievements of students, quality of educational programs, implementation of educational process in a particular educational institution, the educational process in the whole country and its territorial systems. The theoretical basis of these sets of core competencies are the provisions formulated in psychology. It is indicated that the subject of human communication, knowledge, work is manifested in the system of human relations to society, to other people, to themselves, to work; human competence has an axiological vector of development; professional competence includes competence.

Casos de polissemia e escolhas de tradução do conto O pequeno robot perdido, de Isaac Asimov

Neste trabalho analisaremos a tradução de termos polissêmicos do conto de Ficção Científica Little lost robot (1947), de Isaac Asimov, publicado no Brasil em 1958 sob o título O pequeno robot perdido. Consideraremos a hipótese de que o autor utiliza a polissemia como ferramenta criativa e que os jogos polissêmicos adquirem importância no próprio enredo, devendo ser mantidos na tradução. A fim de contextualizar a análise, discutiremos a conceituação de polissemia e os desafios enfrentados em seu processo de tradução, além de comentar a relação das obras de Asimov com a investigação da competência comunicativa e do desenvolvimento cognitivo de humanos e robôs. Finalmente, abordaremos as possíveis motivações para as escolhas tradutórias empregadas na versão brasileira do conto, avaliando se o texto foi capaz de reproduzir a multiplicidade semântica explorada na obra original.

Gamete-level immunogenetic incompatibility in humans-towards deeper understanding of fertilization and infertility?

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) immune genes play an important role in partner selection, but it has remained unclear if nonrandom pairing with respect to parental HLA genes could occur at the level of the gametes. We tested this possibility by investigating whether the sperm fertilization competence in humans is dependent on HLA genotype combination of the partners. We conducted a full-factorial experiment, in which the sperm physiological preparation for fertilization among multiple males was studied in the presence of follicular fluid (oocyte surrounding bioactive liquid) of several females. All the studied sperm pre-fertilization physiological parameters (motility, hyperactivation, acrosome reaction, and viability) were strongly dependent on male-female combination. In other words, follicular fluids (women) that induce strong sperm physiological response in some males often induce much weaker response in the other(s). Sperm physiological responses were stronger in HLA-dissimilar male-female pairs than in HLA-similar combinations, but none of the measured sperm traits were associated with genome-wide similarity. Together, these findings shed new light on the evolutionary and immunological mechanisms of fertilization. Furthermore, our results raise an intriguing possibility that against currently prevailing WHO's definition, infertility may not represent exclusively a pathological condition, but may also result from immunogenetic incompatibility of the gametes.

Впровадження здоров'язберігаючих технологій в процес професійно-педагогічної підготовки спеціалістів з фізичної культури та спорту

The problem of training specialists in physical culture and sports for professional activity using health-saving technologies is considered. Under human competence, teachers understand the specially structured knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes that they acquire in the learning process. They allow a person to identify and solve, regardless of the context, problems specific to a particular field of activity. The essence of the concept of «health competence» of a physical education teacher is insufficiently researched, and therefore requires further scientific research. It is necessary to eliminate the contradiction between the modern requirement of society for the health-preserving competence of a physical education teacher and the insufficient theoretical-methodological and methodological-technological elaboration of the problem of its formation. Further our research provides to define essence, structure and the maintenance of health-preserving competence of the future teacher of physical culture, to substantiate organizational and pedagogical conditions and to develop methodical and technological aspect of its formation in the course of biological preparation. A physical education specialist must have methods for determining and evaluating the quantitative indicators of an individual's health and be able to use the most informative of them in practice. To do this, in our opinion, it is not necessary to include new disciplines or special courses in the curriculum. Appropriate adjustments should be made to the curricula of biological disciplines for students majoring in physical culture and sports at the university. Particular attention in this context is paid to physiology, because the study of the functions of body systems can be supplemented by methods of studying their functional state with the help of various biological samples.

Capital humano e panorama educacional

O ensaio reconstrói a história das reformas do sistema educacional alemão, escolhendo a famosa crítica de Heinz-Joachim Heydorn, dos anos 1970, como eixo da argumentação. Tanto a pré-história dessa crítica quanto as políticas das últimas décadas revelam uma continuidade da orientação pedagógica que, desde o conceito do capital humano até os critérios de competência e de adaptação às demandas da economia e da tecnologia em permanente transformação, perde de vista o homem. Ao invés de focar em competências humanas imediatamente aproveitáveis, o autor pleiteia em favor da formação universal, convencido ser essa a melhor condição para se enfrentar os desafios da dinâmica inscrita ao mundo moderno.

Competencies of military nurse managers: A scoping review and unifying framework.

Aim(s)To identify competencies of military nurse managers and develop a unifying framework of military nurse managers’ competencies.BackgroundMilitary nurse managers shoulder multiple responsibilities because of duality roles, and they should possess competencies that enable them to manage human and material resources during peacetime and wartime. Therefore, nursing management within military context is demanding, such that a comprehensive understanding of their competencies is needed for effective military nursing management. Although relevant studies have focused on different military branches and different levels of managers, there is no standard evaluation framework.EvaluationA scoping review of studies focusing on competencies of military nurse managers from seven databases was carried out.Key issuesNine studies were included in this review, and a framework consisting of six domains of military nurse managers’ competencies was identified: clinical expertise, role model, leadership competencies, human competencies, financial competencies and deployment competencies.ConclusionExisting knowledge of competencies of military nurse managers is limited, and a comprehensive understanding of this topic can provide direction for future work.Implications for Nursing ManagementMilitary nurse managers play substantial roles within the military nursing context. A unifying framework can facilitate personnel recruitment and competency measurement, as well as training protocol development.

Digital competences in the system of key human competences for lifelong learning: development trends in Europe and Ukraine

The aim of the study is to determine the correspondences and differences in the field of vision of digital competencies in the system of lifelong learning in the EU and in Ukraine based on the analysis of strategic legal documents. Technological progress, having reached the digital stage of its development, has set society the task of digital transformation of the whole way of social and economic life. In particular, this applies to the need for each person to master digital skills and abilities, ie what can be determined by digital human competencies. It is concluded that there are significant differences in the vision of digital competencies in the EU and Ukraine. Due to the need to revise strategic documents on digital development in both the EU and Ukraine, it is necessary to synchronize digital standards in the economic and technological spheres and approaches to people's digital competencies.

Харківські лекції. Фіхте і Шад – освіта як завдання

The lecture is devoted to the explication of the functional possibility of education conceptualized as a task, which is addressed both to human and society. The problems concentrated on this field are regarded in the contemporary social and cultural contexts in which the philosophy of education of Fichte and Schad would be proofed on its actuality. The connection between politics and education are unveiled with their contextual and historical distinctions. The new tendencies of the developments of education are analyzed with positive and negative consequences both of the digitalization and of the empirical turn in the theory and practice of education. It is showed that the one-sided interpretation of the possibilities of digital technologies is caused by the biological and pragmatically approaches to a human being provoked by the radical changes in culture and in the world of labour. The positions of humans both in the post-industrial reality and in the first decades of the XIX century have some common features because in those periods many new possibilities were opened for human’s self-realization and perfection. Taking into account these circumstances the representatives of German idealism have paid especially much attention to education. For German idealism it is typically that the educational problems are regarded in connection with the idea of the freedom and the principal new conceptualization of human as a self-responsible person with no needs of the support from the higher metaphysical instances. The senses and functional potential of Kant’s categorical imperative are analyzed on its anthropological foundation. The human is showed there in his affiliation to mankind, what means the self-obligation for him and for mankind. This would be obligate foundation of the all moral acts despite any kind of the heteronomy. All these ideas became the further development in Fichte and Schad. They state, that the human being must be defined with the taking into consideration the material substation of humanity. This assumption is necessary to clarify the importance of the human disposition for forming, what presumes available the human competence for using sensuality, reason and mind in problems solving in order not to turn into the instrument for purposes of the Others. This is the main and actual task of the education.

A PROPOSAL FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF HUMAN COMPETENCES FOR SUSTAINABILITY

Considering the discussion regarding the need to promote and develop sustainability in organisations, this study aims to propose the management of human competences for sustainability. The study comprises two phases. First, after reviewing the theories and concepts related to competences and their relationship with sustainability in organisations, we defined six specific human competences. In the second phase, to ascertain the adherence of this set of competences in the organisations, two studies were conducted in companies that are recognized for their actions focused on sustainability and competences management. The evidence reinforces that the competence-based approach represents an appropriate perspective that strategicly drives sustainability management in organisations. As a proposal, the following aspects were defined based on a guiding model: what is the competence-based management model suitable for, how it will be developed, formatted and used.

Human Competency Considerations in an Integrated Software Configuration Management Framework

Human Competency Considerations in an Integrated Software Configuration Management Framework

Do US Social Work Students View Social Work as a Human Rights Profession? Levels of Support for Human Rights Statements Among BSW and MSW Students

Social work practice not centered on human rights may unintentionally perpetuate human rights abuses, and these abuses can have global implications. US-based social work educators have made efforts to directly focus social work education on human rights since 2008, when the US-based Council on Social Work Education included a human rights competency. However, insufficient data exists regarding US-based social work students’ views on human rights, as well as the possible relationship between exposure to human rights content in social work education and student endorsement of human rights. The present research attempts to address both issues: Using McPherson and Abell’s (2012) 25-item Human Rights Engagement in Social Work scale (HRESW), the author assessed the overall endorsement of human rights perspectives by students in a social work program in the western United States, and examined differences between students at different levels in the program to evaluate the effectiveness of increased exposure to human rights content. Descriptive results from 171 BSW and MSW students showed overall endorsement of human rights. Ten of the 25 HRESW items showed stronger agreement among upper-division BSW and MSW students when compared with their lower-division BSW peers at statistically significant levels; these items were related to social and economic rights. When comparing online and face-to-face students, one HRESW item showed a statistically significant difference. Overall results indicate that social work students have a relatively high level of human rights endorsement, which has the potential to increase with continual exposure to human rights content in social work courses.

A perspective on 21st design challenges facing the urgency of solutions for global sustainability

Before the accelerated transformation of reality, we question the human role in the technological context, placing the need of thinking about the importance of intrinsically human competences. In the scope of design, a field of practice and academic discipline, the challenge for the profession and the future education is huge. Above all, these challenges have to do with large scale and with processes requiring the ability to deal with more complex conceptual frameworks, with a set of context dimensions involving economic, ecological, social, cultural, and political issues of societies in permanent change. The design community recognizes the value of designer's multidisciplinary skills and the ability to lead processes involving large socio-technical systems. However, today the designer faces the challenge of multidisciplinary working teams where skills go far beyond their traditional abilities. The thinking and practice of design reveals a set of core values ​​and virtues of the designers that allows a strategic positioning of these professionals in the complex problem-solving context. Nevertheless, designers will have an increasingly demanding role in creating products, services and experiences which mean a profession under pressure to evolve towards a more complex activity requiring new general and specialized skills. The objective of our reflection is about designer’s competencies transition demand, an imperative requiring technological and management skills and leadership capacity on sustainable solutions complex processes. Despite this recognition, designers must be prepared about collaboration and cooperation skills, a necessity more and more in tension with a reality where the whole potential of design to deal with complexity remains unaware. Design community reflects about designer’s strategic value for facing global challenges and points out the complexity approach as a requirement of design education in the future. Considered a condition for design expansion this concern is also revealed in design education research contributions. This contextual disposition makes possible to regard an alignment about a direction to pursue. This paper presents a reflection about this problematic field which intends to be a contribution to understand how design discipline can evolve meeting the designer’s community recognition of the necessity of a set of updated critical dimensions for design activity. This reflection looks at the design community before a strong demand for an evolution, pushing to a design education deep transformation. This kind of evolution for design may occur first in the professional practice and will be primarily caused, in our perspective, by the desirable and the unavoidable impact on design processes of a design community's new mindset about core principles.

Ontology-Based Approach for Human Competency Gap Analysis in Air Traffic Management: A Case Study of Georgia

Ontology-Based Approach for Human Competency Gap Analysis in Air Traffic Management: A Case Study of Georgia

NECESSITY OF MOBILE EXPERT SYSTEM FOR APPLE AND PEAR DISEASE IDENTIFICATION IN LATVIA

Apples and pears are one of the most widely grown and economically important fruits in the world and in Latvia. Mobile expert system is software running on smartphones that use artificial intelligence to solve problems in a specialized field that usually requires human competence. This article analyses the necessity of mobile expert system that will be able to recognize apple or pear disease. Author conducted Latvian market survey to investigate gardener inclinations related with smart horticulture. The survey showed the importance of expert system for Latvian market.

Human resource management moral competencies

Orientation: If Human Resource Management (HRM) has a positive role in providing direction for the permissible use of people in organisations, then such a role inevitably creates a number of ethical tensions. The HRM practitioner often encounters situations, where they require moral expertise to make decisions that are ethical. Research Purpose: The purpose of the research is to identify and describe the moral competencies HRM can use to make normative judgements in organisations. Motivation for the Study: The understanding of HRM moral expertise is important, given the role of HRM in organisations. Research Design: This article uses a virtue-ethical approach to identify and describe possible HRM moral competencies and their use. Main Findings: There is value to using a virtue-theoretic approach in HRM, because it allows for the identification of moral competencies that can be used to improve ethical decision making, when using HRM practices. Practical/Management Implications: The article provides a practical approach to using moral expertise. Moral expertise can be used to discern concrete normative actions when using HRM practices, and so doing improve normative outcomes for employees and organisations. Contribution/Value Add: This is the first attempt to identify and apply HRM moral competencies to HRM decision-making and practice. Furthermore, if the requirement for HRM moral expertise is known, it follows that it can provide the basis for further HRM professional development.

Effects of human recombinant granulocyte-colony stimulating factor treatment during in vitro culture on porcine pre-implantation embryos.

Granulocyte-colony stimulating factor (G-CSF), a pleiotropic cytokine, belongs to the hematopoietic growth factor family. Recent studies have reported that G-CSF is a predictive biomarker of oocyte and embryo developmental competence in humans. The aim of our study was to determine whether CSF3 and its receptor (CSF3R) were expressed in porcine maternal reproductive tissues (oviduct and uterus), cumulus cells, and embryos and to investigate the effects of human recombinant G-CSF (hrG-CSF) supplementation during in vitro culture (IVC) on the developmental competence of pre-implantation embryos. To do this, we first performed reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Second, we performed parthenogenetic activation (PA), in vitro fertilization (IVF), and somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) to evaluate the embryonic developmental potential after hrG-CSF supplementation based on various concentrations (0 ng/mL, 10 ng/mL, 50 ng/mL, and 100 ng/mL) and durations (Un-treated, Days 0–3, Days 4–7, and Days 0–7) of IVC. Finally, we examined transcriptional levels of several marker genes in blastocysts. The results of our study showed that CSF3 transcript was present in all samples we assessed. CSF3-R was also detected, except in cumulus cells and blastocysts from PA. Furthermore, 10 ng/mL and Days 0–7 were the optimal concentration and duration for the viability of in vitro embryonic development, especially for SCNT-derived embryos. The rate of blastocyst formation and the total cell number of blastocysts were significantly enhanced, while the number and index of apoptotic nuclei were significantly decreased in optimal condition groups compared to others. Moreover, the transcriptional levels of anti-apoptotis- (BCL2), proliferation- (PCNA), and pluripotency- (POU5F1) related genes were dramatically upregulated. In conclusion, for the first time, we demonstrated that CSF3 and CSF3R were expressed in porcine reproductive organs, cells, and embryos. Additionally, we determined that hrG-CSF treatment improved porcine embryonic development capacity in vitro.

Teknologi Informasi Memoderasi Pengaruh Pengendalian Intern dan Kompetensi Sumber Daya Manusia Pada Kualitas Laporan Keuangan

The purpose of this research is to identify whether information technology moderate the impact of internal control and human resources competency in the financial statement quality. The Reseach was done to 28 regional government officials of Badung. The number of samples are 112 peoples. The technique that was used for the analysis is Moderated Regression Anlysis(MRA). The result of the test shows that internal control affects positively and significantly in the financial statement quality. Human resource competence does not affect the financial statement quality. Information technology strengthen the impact of internal control on financial statement qualityand information technology strengthen the impact of human reources competence on the financial statement quality.
 Keywords: Control; Competence; IT; Financial Statement.