In Botswana, nurses play a major role in the provision of healthcare. Most of the time it is the professional nurses who frequently discover patients with cardiac arrests and it is necessary for them to be trained to perform CPR as efficiently as possible. The aim of this study is to describe and explore the perceptions, barriers and needs as experienced by nurses in Botswana during the provision of CPR. For this study, the researcher utilised both quantitative and qualitative research designs in four phases. Phase one assessed and audited the existing available facilities in the provision of CPR. Phase two investigated the existing knowledge and skills of registered nurses in the performance of CPR. Focus groups discussions and semi-structured interviews were held during phase three to identify the perceived barriers, needs in the performance of CPR. In phase four, the researcher made recommendation to improve the provision of CPR in relation to system, nurse and patient. Convenience sampling and purposive sampling were used in this study respectively. The auditing of the equipment in the two referral hospitals showed that the availability of equipment was below 50%. The CPR knowledge and skills demonstrated by the nurses in the pre-test were inadequate. Following CPR training with the help of a manikin, the knowledge and skills among registered nurses improved substantially. The focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews among registered nurses and senior nurse mangers revealed that there was a lack of organisational support and resources, lack of knowledge and skills among registered nurses, inadequate policies and protocols are the major contributory factors affecting the registered nurses performance in the provision of CPR. In order to enhance the performance of the registered nurses while providing CPR, the researcher recommends the two referral hospitals to • have adequate provision of equipment • introduce regular BLS training program for registered nurses • have clearly defined policies regarding the nurses’ role on end-of-life care / Health Studies

The thesis deals with the managerial competencies. The aim is to define and identify key competencies to carry out the functions of senior managers in the Czech republic on the basis of theoretical ground and questionnaire survey extended by personal interviews. The relationships between particular competencies are determined in this thesis and consequently, these competencies are compared with competencies of the students of The Faculty of Economics in České Budějovice. For these students, reccomendations leading to increase their competency potentional are proposed.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:26:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-02-04Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:13:27Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000753362.pdf: 7729519 bytes, checksum: 291883c7a21a4269ae4808d90b0de655 (MD5) / A aprovação das diretrizes curriculares nacionais para os cursos de Engenharia já completou mais de dez anos. Uma de suas novidades foi propor o direcionamento dos esforços na formação dos futuros engenheiros não apenas nos conhecimentos previstos nas grades curriculares. A formação, segundo as diretrizes, deve privilegiar o desenvolvimento de habilidades, competências e atitudes, as quais são tão ou mais importantes que os conteúdos ministrados para a ulterior atuação do profissional na sociedade. O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a percepção de alunos, de egressos e de docentes quanto à maior ou menor valorização das competências propostas nas diretrizes curriculares para formação dos engenheiros de produção. Para atingir este objetivo geral foram realizados diversos levantamentos tipo survey. O primeiro teve como respondentes alunos formandos de cursos de uma universidade pública e de uma universidade privada, que avaliaram a valorização das diversas competências no ambiente universitário e no ambiente profissional. No segundo, o público alvo foram os docentes dos mesmos dois cursos que avaliaram o quanto são valorizadas as competências propostas nas diretrizes na realidade concreta das universidades e num quadro em que os respondentes considerariam ideal de ser atingido. No terceiro levantamento, com egressos do curso da universidade pública, os respondentes fizeram avaliação de quanto cada uma das competências foi valorizada e desenvolvida em sua formação universitária e o quanto elas têm sido importantes na sua atuação profissional. Como resultado tem-se um mosaico de percepções, em grande parte bastante divergentes, que aponta que a formação acadêmica continua privilegiando os conteúdos e não o desenvolvimento mais integral de competências e habilidades / The adoption of national curriculum guidelines for courses in Engineering has completed more than ten years. One of his innovations was to propose the targeting of efforts in training future engineers not only on the information covered in the curricula. The training, according to the guidelines, should focus on developing skills, competencies and attitudes, which are equally or more important than the content taught to further the professional practice in society. The aim of this study was to investigate the perception of students, graduates and teachers of as the greater or lesser use of skills in the proposed curriculum guidelines for training of production engineers. To achieve this overall objective type survey several surveys were conducted. The first respondent had the senior students of courses at a public university and a private university that assessed valuation of the various skills in the university environment and professional environment. In the second, the audience were teachers of the same two courses that assessed how skills are valued in the guidelines proposed in the concrete reality of universities and a framework in which respondents would consider ideal to be achieved. In the third survey, with students who graduated from public universities, respondents did review how each of the competencies was developed and valued in their university education and how they have been important in their professional practice. As a result, there is a mosaic of perceptions, mostly quite divergent, pointing that education continues focusing on the content and not the full development of skills and abilities

A identificação das competências do contador pode contribuir para o desenvolvimento da profissão. O objetivo principal desse estudo é verificar a existência de uma estrutura de interdependência subjacente às competências do contador, explicando-as melhor. A fundamentação teórica sobre competências está relacionada ao estudo McClelland (1973,1998), Boyatzis (1982) e Spencer e Spencer (1993). No campo profissional as referências são Hardern (1995) e Sakagami, Yoshimi e Okano (1999). Os estudos relacionados as competências do contador não estão baseados em fundamentos da psicologia ou estruturas genéricas de competências, o que é o objetivo desse trabalho. Está pesquisa está baseada no estudo de 18 competências coletadas em 24 artigos sobre as habilidades do contador que foram submetidos a 159 contadores no Brasil. O instrumento de coleta dos dados apresentou um alfa de cronbach de 0,834. A partir da análise fatorial foram formados 4 fatores: competências específicas, competências de conduta e administração, competências de gerenciamento da informação e competências de comunicação. A validação dos dados de pesquisas seguiu os passos descritos por Cone e Foster (1997). O resultado apresentou uma estrutura genérica de competências. As principais limitações desse estudo estão relacionadas as características da amostra e a falta da validação com uso de estudos comparativos e longitudinais. Os pontos para futuras pesquisas são destacar a validação dos resultados em outras amostras de contadores e a aplicação da estrutura genérica em outras corporações. / Identifying accountants\' competencies and skills may contribute for professional growth and development. The major purpose of the present study is to evaluate the possibility of utilizing, defining and creating a construct to explain the relationship between the competencies identified in field research and a possible underlying competencies and skills structure: the generic competencies and skills model for that specific professional. Theoretical background for competencies is based on McClelland (1973, 1998), Boyatzis (1982) and Spencer & Spencer (1993). Professionally, references are Hardern (1995) and Sakagami, Yoshimi and Okano (1999). Studies that focus accountants have not identified psychology models or the search for a generic model, as this study proposes to do. The present research was carried out based on the study of 18 competencies collected from 24 articles on accountants\' behavioral studies, which were then submitted to the assessment of 159 certified public accountants in Brazil. Data collecting tool showed a 0.834 Cronbach\'s alpha. Construct formation took place through factorial analysis that resulted in 4 factors: specific competency, behavioral and administrative competencies, communication and the ability to manage information. Research validation followed the steps as in Cone & Foster (1997). Research result was a generic model to explain competencies. Study limitations are associated to sampling itself, and to the lack of validation through longitudinal studies. Future research will be able to count on model validation from other samples as well as the application of the model in corporations.

Thesis (MTech (Business Administration))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2017. / Leadership and how it impacts on the performance of human beings remains to wide and to generic to define in a one stop shop. The inability of the research community to have one definition of this well researched topic, complicates the process of identifying those critical factors that lead to effective leadership. Sometimes, incorrectly so, leadership and management are interchangeably used when they do not always mean the same thing. Whilst both can be found in an individual, they are different with leadership relating to personality as compared to management which relates to formal position. Because leadership resides in the person of the individual, it lands itself into different styles as they pertain to the knowledge, understanding, education, culture and experience of the leader. Project management or leadership, is unique because of the unique nature of the project and the environment in which projects are executed. A special type of leadership is presumed to be able to provide effective leadership in the presence of the matrix structure leading to the authority gap, the temporary nature of the project leading to labour instability, and the square root parameters against which the success of the project are measured. The findings clearly indicate that there are certain behavioural patterns necessary to provide effective project execution in the risky and unpredictable project terrain.

Com a evolução da tecnologia a modalidade de Educação a Distância ganhou forças e provocou a necessidade de que o professor que trabalhe com esta modalidade, tenha competências diversificadas para atender diferentes estratégias. Este estudo tem como principal objetivo desenvolver um instrumento flexível, valido e confiável para avaliar as competências do tutor em Educação a Distância. Alguns autores propuseram modelos e instrumentos para avaliação das competências, porém ligado a uma só instituição ou focado em um só contexto. Em etapas, esta pesquisa se propõe a realizar uma revisão bibliográfica e investigar as competências citadas na literatura relacionadas à função docente de Tutoria e por meio de especialistas em EAD, elencarem as competências essenciais para sua realização e dividir em dimensões. A coleta de dados foi realizada nos cursos de Bacharelado em Administração e Logística e Licenciaturas de Computação, Geografia, História, Letras dos pólos de Batatais e Gestão em Tecnologia da Informação, Licenciatura em Geografia e Ciências Contábeis do Centro Universitário Claretiano de Batatais. O método \"Alfa de Cronbach\" foi indicado para análise da fidelidade das informações adquiridas. A análise dos dados mostrou que o instrumento pode ser flexível e evidencia informações precisas para apoiar a gestão do conhecimento no que se refere a formação e treinamento de tutores. / With technological developments and new demands from the information society, distance education has been increasing and intensifying the need for professors to work with this type of education and acquire diversified skills to work in this new scenario. This research has as main objective is to develop a flexible, reliable and valid instrument for evaluating the skills of the Tutor in Distance Education. There are a number of models and instruments for assessing these skills, but always focused on only a single institution or context. ln its different stages, this research will conduct a review of the literature of distance education experts about the skills needed to function in different dimensions of the Tutor. Data collection will take place in distance education courses in Graduate of Business Administration and Accounting, Logistics Management and Information Technology, Computer Science, Geography, History and Language offered by the Centro Universitário Claretiano de Batatais. Data analysis showed that the instrument can be flexible and accurate evidence to support the management of knowledge regarding the fonnation and training of tutors.

The current study aimed to identify the degree of importance experience has as an element of competencies, in problem solving of management work. A case study was conducted descriptively throughout the research at a movement engineering company, located in the state of CearÃ, certified by ISO 9000/2000, which searches for quality in its strategic guidelines. Eight surveys were answered by the managers of various areas. The results of this data, along with the relevant theory, made it possible to check according to the ones researched that personal experience is necessary to the development of managers` basic and specific competencies, and these contribute to the solution of management problems. In practice, it is confirmed that competencies are made up by how workers see the job, build up and organize the knowledge and abilities in different competencies in the carrying out of their professional activities. / O presente estudo objetivou identificar o grau de importÃncia da experiÃncia como elemento da competÃncia para a soluÃÃo de problemas gerenciais. Adotou-se o estudo de caso de modo descritivo, em uma empresa prestadora de serviÃo em engenharia de movimento, localizada no estado do CearÃ, e certificada pela norma ISO 9000/2000, a qual contempla a busca da qualidade em suas diretrizes estratÃgicas. Foram aplicados oito questionÃrios com os gerentes de diversas Ãreas. Os resultados dessa investigaÃÃo, associados à teoria pertinente, possibilitaram a verificaÃÃo segundo as manifestaÃÃes dos agentes pesquisados, que a experiÃncia pessoal à necessÃria ao desenvolvimento das competÃncias bÃsicas e especÃficas dos gerentes, e estas competÃncias contribuem para a soluÃÃo dos problemas gerenciais. Confirma-se na prÃtica que a competÃncia à constituÃda pelo modo como os trabalhadores concebem o trabalho, formam e organizam os conhecimentos e as habilidades em competÃncias distintas na realizaÃÃo de suas atividades profissionais.

O crescimento mundial e na taxa de investimento direto no exterior no ano de 2004 foram impulsionados pelas economias emergentes. Até 2050, o grupo de países BRIC (Brasil, Rússia, Índia e China) poderá superar o atual G6. Nesse contexto, o presente trabalho tem como objetivo contribuir para o avanço do conhecimento sobre internacionalização de empresas do Brasil com foco na criação de subsidiárias de produção no exterior. A partir de um estudo de caso, procura-se descrever o processo de internacionalização de uma multinacional brasileira, identificar o valor explicativo do modelo clássico de internacionalização, bem como promover a discussão sobre competências da organização e cultura relacionadas com esse processo. Ainda há poucas pesquisas sobre criação de subsidiárias de produção por empresas brasileiras e suas competências, por isso, este trabalho é exploratório e se destina a gerar subsídios para estudos subseqüentes. / The growth in the world economy and foreign direct investment in 2004 resulted from the growth in emerging economies. By 2050 the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) may surpass the current G6. In this context, this study has been developed to support the progress of the knowledge available on internationalization of Brazilian enterprises with focus on the establishment of production subsidiaries abroad. By developing a case study, the process of internationalization of a Brazilian multinational firm with subsidiary in a foreign country has been described, as well as driven a debate on organizational competencies and culture in this process. Research on the process of creating plants abroad by Brazilian enterprises and their competencies are still very limited so this is a exploratory study that provides materials for future studies.

The ability to work effectively in teams has been a key competence for information systems engineers for a long time. Gradually, more attention is being paid to developing this generic competence as part of academic curricula, resulting in two questions: how to best promote team competencies and how to implement team projects successfully. These questions are closely interwoven and need to be looked at together. To address these questions, this paper identifies relevant studies and approaches, best practices, and key findings in the field of information systems education and related fields such as computer science and business, and examines them together to develop a systematic framework. The framework is intended to categorize existing research on teams and team competencies in information systems education and to guide information systems educators in supporting teamwork and promoting team competencies in students at the course and curricular level in the context of teaching in tertiary education.

Magister Curationis - MCur / Occupational health nursing (OHN) as a specialist area has become increasingly popular in South Africa for registered nurses. With developing legislation in South Africa regarding occupational health in the workplace, there is a growing need for occupational health nursing practitioners to be adequately prepared to practice according to the competencies set out by the South African Nursing Council on completion of their study programme. No significant research studies have been done on the perceived readiness of occupational health nursing practitioners to practice occupational health nursing in South Africa. The aim of the study was to explore the perceived readiness of the 2015 graduating OHN students to practice OHN. The study used a qualitative research approach, using an exploratory descriptive design. Purposive sampling was used to select participants who were enrolled in the occupational health nursing programme during their final year of study at a specific university in South Africa. Data were collected by means of in-depth interviews from participants and were analysed using thematic content analysis. Five major themes were identified: Perceived confidence to practice OHN; Readiness for the unique field of OHN; Readiness for professional and self development; Readiness for a leadership role in occupational health management; and Perceived readiness for a research role in OHN and future implications.The researcher concluded, on the basis of the findings, that occupational health nurse practitioners are generally ready to practice as competent and independent OHN professionals.