Emergency nursing is an evolving field in Kenya with the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) yet to list it as a speciality area. This study wished to identify and describe the core competencies that should be included in an emergency nurse training programme based on the views of nurses and doctors who work in emergency units in a level 1 hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. The researcher used qualitative explorative and quantitative descriptive designs in phases 1 and 2, respectively, and convenience and purposive sampling. The study found that the respondents emphasised the inclusion of 137 (93.2%) of the 147 skills in the questionnaire as core competencies and disagreed with 10 (6.8%). Concomitantly, the vast majority of the respondents (93.6%) supported the inclusion of the skills compared to those (6.3%) that did not. Based on the findings, the researcher made recommendations of the core competencies to be included in the programme. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health studies)

Emergency nursing is an evolving field in Kenya with the Nursing Council of Kenya (NCK) yet to list it as a speciality area. This study wished to identify and describe the core competencies that should be included in an emergency nurse training programme based on the views of nurses and doctors who work in emergency units in a level 1 hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. The researcher used qualitative explorative and quantitative descriptive designs in phases 1 and 2, respectively, and convenience and purposive sampling. The study found that the respondents emphasised the inclusion of 137 (93.2%) of the 147 skills in the questionnaire as core competencies and disagreed with 10 (6.8%). Concomitantly, the vast majority of the respondents (93.6%) supported the inclusion of the skills compared to those (6.3%) that did not. Based on the findings, the researcher made recommendations of the core competencies to be included in the programme. / Health Studies / M.A. (Health studies)

Thesis (M.B.A.)-Business Studies Unit, Durban Institute of Technology, 2004 iii, 111 leaves / The purpose of this study was to determine the core competencies of Sappi Forest Product division as a basis for establishing future developments. The literature focused on the resource-based view where the analysis of the firm’s internal resources and capabilities can be used as the starting point of strategy. / M

Submitted by Elba Lopes (elba.lopes@fecap.br) on 2016-12-30T19:03:55Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Ana Lucia de Souza Dias.pdf: 590211 bytes, checksum: 7e6e970daafac8131df1e8f41f949138 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-30T19:03:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Ana Lucia de Souza Dias.pdf: 590211 bytes, checksum: 7e6e970daafac8131df1e8f41f949138 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-09-02 / The aim of this research was to analyze the consistency between the Teaching Project, the legislation relevant to the university education in Brazil, and the teaching practices, in the view of the coordinator and professors from an Accounting Sciences graduation course in the city of S??o Paulo. It was a qualitative research. Firstly, it was applied an interview scrip. Secondly, with the professors. The results from the first stage show that, according to the coordinator, the competency approach is dealt with since the beginning of the course, and in all disciplines: basic, professional, theoretical and practical. The results from the second stage show that, despite working the competency approach, most professors do not know the concept of competency-based education, but apply this concept, although not knowing the theory. This stage also verified that the Teaching Project is in accordance with the National Curricular Guidelines. / O objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar a consist??ncia entre o Projeto Pol??tico Pedag??gico, a legisla????o pertinente ao ensino superior no Brasil e as pr??ticas docentes, por meio do olhar do coordenador e dos docentes de um curso de gradua????o de Ci??ncias Cont??beis da cidade de S??o Paulo. A pesquisa qualitativa foi o m??todo selecionado. Em uma primeira etapa, foi usado um roteiro de entrevista com o coordenador do curso e, em uma segunda etapa, com os professores. Os resultados da primeira etapa apontam que, na vis??o do coordenador, a no????o de compet??ncias ?? tratada desde o primeiro dia do curso e em todas as disciplinas de forma????o: b??sica, profissional e te??rico-pr??tica. Os resultados da segunda etapa apontam que, apesar de trabalharem a no????o de compet??ncias, a maioria dos docentes n??o conhece o conceito de pedagogia por compet??ncias, mas aplicam esse conceito, embora n??o conhe??am a teoria. Tamb??m constatou que o projeto pol??tico pedag??gico contempla as orienta????es contidas nas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) found that Botswana's information and communication technology (ICT) networked readiness index (NRI) had declined from position 89 in 2012 to 104 in 2015. A decline in Botswana's ICT NRI resulted in a modest gross domestic product (GDP) growth increasing from 4.2% in 2012 to 5.0% in 2015. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore strategies ICT service provider managers use to build employee competencies to address ICT infrastructure performance deficiencies. The target population for this study consisted of over 120 managers from 2 ICT service providers located in Gaborone and Francistown in Botswana. The conceptual framework for this study was information technology (IT) competency model. Face-to-face interviews with 15 managers and a review of 12 company documents were gathered and all interpretations from the data were subjected to member checking to ensure the trustworthiness of the study findings. The thematic analyses of participants' interviews and company documents resulted in the emergence of 3 common themes: developing professional employee competencies through training, promoting knowledge acquisition and skills transfer, and developing budgets for funding the development of employee competencies. Participants cited training and professional development as a reason for ICT infrastructure performance deficiencies. Social implications from this study include developing strategies business managers can use to build employee competencies to improve ICT infrastructure performance, which could result in improved services to citizens and enhanced national development, social transformation, and economic diversification.

Bakgrund och problem: Den 1 november 2010 avskaffades revisionsplikten för små bolag i Sverige vilket innebar att ca 70 % av alla aktiebolag i Sverige inte längre var tvingade till revision. Detta påverkade revisionsbolagens förutsättningar och vi frågar oss hur de har tagit sig an den nya marknaden där en stor del av deras kundstock inte längre är tvingade att revideras. Vi har kommit fram till dessa frågeställningar: Hur har slopandet av revisionsplikten påverkat och förändrat de små revisionsbolagens arbetssätt? Hur förbereder de sig för ett eventuellt förändrat gränsvärde? Syfte: Syftet med vårt arbete är att utifrån revisorns perspektiv belysa vilka förändringar den avskaffade revisionsplikten för små aktiebolag har medfört för de små revisionsbyråerna. Vi vill också belysa hur revisorns roll kan komma att förändras i framtiden om Sverige väljer EU:s maximal tröskelvärde för att slippa revisionsplikt eller att gränsvärdet förändras på annat sätt. Metod: Arbetet är skrivet utifrån en kvalitativ ansats, primärdata har samlats in i form av semistrukturerade intervjuer med grund i en öppen intervjumall. Detta har sedan tolkats utifrån sekundär data i form av vetenskaplig litteratur. Resultat och slutsats: Studiens slutsats visar att revisionsbolagen har genomfört ganska omfattande förändringar för att möta lagändringen. Tappet i form av revisionsuppdrag har kompenserats med att de har tagit in fler redovisningsuppdrag eller börjat erbjuda redovisning som en ny tjänst. Revisionsbolagen tror att det bara är en tidsfråga innan gränsvärdet höjs, de gör ändå inget för att förbereda sig då de anser att påverkan på bolaget kommer bli mindre än vid tidigare lagändring. Detta för att ägarstrukturen i större bolag är annorlunda och en oberoende granskning är mer motiverat i dessa bolag. / Background and problem: On November 1, 2010 the audit requirement was abolished for small companies in Sweden which meant that about 70% of all companies in Sweden were no longer forced to audit. This affected the audit firms prerequisites and we ask ourselves how they have tackled the new market where a large part of their customer base is no longer forced to be audited. We have come up with these questions: How has the removal of mandatory auditing changed the small audit firms ways of working? How do they prepare themselves for a possible change in limit? Purpose: The purpose of our thesis is to highlight the changes that abolishment of the audit requirement for small companies has led to for small accounting firms from an auditor's perspective. We also want to highlight how the auditor's role may change in the future if Sweden closes up to EU:s maximum threshold to avoid audit duties or the limit otherwise changes. Method: The work is written from a qualitative approach, primary data were collected through semi-structured interviews with basis in an open interview template. This has since been interpreted on the basis of secondary data in the form of scientific literature. Results and Conclusion: The study's conclusion indicates that accounting firms have conducted fairly extensive changes to meet legislative change. The drop in the form of audit services is offset by more assignments or started offering accounting as a new service. Audit companies believe that it is only a matter of time before the limit is raised, they don ́t prepare themselves cause they consider the impact on the company will be less than in previous legislative change. This is due to ownership structure of major companies are different and independent verification is more justified in these companies.

The Law for the Development of the Cultural and Creative Industries is passed by the Legislative Yuan on Feb 3, 2010 and implementated on August 30, 2010. It shows that the Taiwanese government is devoted into cultural and creative industries, and also to position cultural and creative industries in a significant place of culture policy. In the Law, there are 16 categories. Among them, the researcher thinks that the handicrafts industry, the digital content industry and the visual communication design industries are full of developmental potential. Therefore, this study will draw three cultural and creative industry projects form these industries as the focus of the analysis. This research applies the resource-based theory on three Taiwan's cultural and creative industry companies. The research interviews one case of each industry listed above. Through interviews and documents, the research attempts to understand those companies¡¦ internal resources, explore their core competencies, and further analyze of the competitive advantages and strategies. Several research questions are listed: what are the successful factors of three cases? What resources are available in their companies? What are their competitive strategies? The analysis will help to understand the development of Taiwan's cultural and creative enterprise and business. In addition, interviewees also provided suggestions for the current policy of Taiwan's cultural and creative industries. Finally, the researcher provides suggestions to the three cases, Taiwanese government on policy of Cultural and Creative Industries in Taiwan, also made efforts for the further studies.

Researth on the Value Creation Strategy -The Case Of Ritek Group By Li-Mei Chen Seeking sustainable growth has always been the core value of an enterprise.However, to achieve such goal, many questions followed¡Kwhat rules to obey upon seeking sustainable growth? High growth leads to high profit for sure? Larger company scale accompanies higher profit? Such growth strategy should be managed according more to external environment or more on own core competence? How to create company value resulting from the diversification and collectivization of the company growth? I adopt Ritek group (ëä¼w¶°¹Î) as my case study object. Purpose of my study is to find out the affection of their growth strategy to their company value, and, how this efficient growth strategy enhances sustainable competitive advantage. My study integrated the relation between company value and Resource-Based view, Enterprise Growth Strategy view and Economic Value Added (EVA) view. Results of my empirical study: 1. Resources construction is a key in the development of company. 2. Strategy to focus on core competencies and to be effective. 3. Company valued scale expansion strategy increased their company value. 4. Fast capital outlay expansion helps no company value promotion. 5. Long-term investment amount decides future value. 6. Highly fund financing could not create company value. 7. Company¡¦s profit ability affects its future growth opportunity.

Since Taiwan implemented the two-day weekend in 1998, ¡§home stay¡¨ industry has become a hot trend in leisure and become more and more commercial. Therefore, the research motivation of the case study is to find out the key success factors in business strategies of the home stay industry in Taiwan. The research methods of this study are to interview home stay operators, to directly experience home stay, to collect consumer questionnaires, and to probe into literature information. Social science research is used to collect data. Then, qualitative research and descriptive statistics are used to analyze information and discuss the results. The results of the case study of the key success factors in business strategies of the home stay industry are as follows: 1.Core assets: A. Home stay operators must choose a right location. B. Home stay operators must have adequate financial resources, own land, aesthetic architectures, and etc. 2.Core competencies: A. Home stay operators need to have personal special expertise, knowledge, or skills. B. Home stay operators need to have correct business ideas. C. Home stay operators need the abilities of business strategies and implementation. D. Home stay operators are able to prioritize service quality and create a brand. 3.Characteristics and charms of operators: A. Operators need the personal characteristics and charms to establish close interaction with customers. B. Operators have the characteristics of tenacious perseverance to overcome operating obstacles on the early-stage venture. With the core resources and core competences mentioned above, operators integrate all kinds of resources and exert the business method of ¡§synergy ¡¨ to enhance competitive advantages and to create value for future home stay business.

Previous findings have demonstrated that the preparedness and infrastructure of the public health system is inadequately developed for a biological and/or chemical terrorism attack.(1-4) Chen et al. reported that those primary care providers that would have to respond to such an attack do not feel prepared to diagnose and manage such an event.(5)This research was an observational study using e-mail/web based survey to assess the levels of preparedness (PL) and willingness to respond (WTR) to a bioterrorism attack, and identify factors that predict PL and WTR of Florida community healthcare providers. The conceptual framework and questionnaire was designed based on empirical studies and the use of an expert panel to assess the providers administrative and clinical competencies, WTR, and PL. The questionnaire was pilot tested in 30 subjects. Reliability was high (Cronbachs alpha =.82). The emailed invitaiton letters were sent to 22,800 healthcare providers in Florida. The questionniare was posted for 7 days on the website during December, 2004.There were 2,279 respondents of 9,124 who received the e-mails. Response rate was 28%, with 86% completed questionnaires. The subjects included physicians (n=604), nurses (n=1,152), and pharmacists (n=486). The results demonstrated that only 32% of the Florida providers were competent and willing to respond to a bioterrorism attack. 82.7% of providers were willing to respond in their local community and 53.6% within the State. The subjects were more competent in administrative skills than clinical knowledge (62.8% vs. 45%) The most competent areas were the initiation of the treatment and recognition of their clinical and administrative roles. The least competent areas were identifying the cases and communicate risk to the others.