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The popularity and application of competencies to human resource processes has grown over the last 20 years since Richard Boyatzis fIrst described a competency in his book 'The Competent Manager' in 1982. With this dissertation a study of the origins of the competency movement, its various applications and in particular, its application to human resource processes in the area of graduate recruitment, selection and development, is undertaken. A study of the application of an existing competency framework to the graduate recruitment process in a local subsidiary of a Durban-based multi-national was undertaken. The objective of the study was to investigate whether specifIc competency clusters, as defIned in the competency framework, were better at predicting early career success than were others. The study used the cumulative appraisal increases of fIfty-four graduate recruits over a twenty-one month period, together with the competency scores that were awarded the graduate during their actual recruitment and selection for employment. Using a backward elimination multiple regression technique the merit ratings were included with scores for each of the four competency clusters in the equation. Results suggest that higher scores on two of the four competency clusters 'Determines Direction' (DD) and 'Delivers through People' (P) are better predictors of early career success. It was concluded that while certain competency clusters seem better indicators of early career success than others, factors such as interviewer skill in identifying competency evidence, interviewer bias and appropriateness of ii competencies to graduate recruitment, may account for the weak relationship between the indicator variables in the study. / Thesis (MBA)-University of Natal, 2002

This study compared the levels of professionalism among Indiana corporate and agency public relations practitioners. The entire population, 339 individuals, was contacted via telephone and administered McLeod and Hawley's professional orientation instrument, yielding 183 usable responses.Respondents rated the importance of 24 items on a 5point Likert scale, and provided information on age, education, undergraduate major, salary, and length of time with current organization, in public relations, and in the workforce.Professionalism scores were calculated by subtracting the sum of answers to the non-professional items from the sum of answers to the professional items. Scores were ranked, then divided at the median. "Professionals" fell at or above the median; "semi-professionals" fell below the median,following McLeod/Hawley methodology.A multiple regression analysis determined the only significant relationship between level of professionalism and demographics occurred with undergraduate major--a slight negative correlation. Frequency distribution showed journalism/public relations majors had higher percentages of professionals than either English or other majors. / Department of Journalism

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2002. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, November, 2002. Bibliography : p 261-271.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Uppsala University, 1998. Thesis summary page inserted. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1995. / Includes bibliographical references.

Em 2010, instala-se na cidade de Palmas no Paraná, um Campus do Instituto Federal do Paraná (IFPR), com a missão de atuação na comunidade local e regional, tendo com um dos balizadores de atuação, o suporte aos Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APL´s). Neste contexto, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi o de avaliar as possibilidades e limites de atuação do Instituto Federal do Paraná – Campus Palmas nos Arranjos Produtivos Locais da região Sudoeste do Paraná. A pesquisa caracterizou-se como documental e de campo, exploratória. Os documentos institucionais utilizados foram a Lei n° 11.892/2008, de criação dos Institutos Federais, o Estatuto de Instituição do Instituto Federal do Paraná e a publicação Concepções e Diretrizes para Instalação dos Institutos Federais. Para a coleta de dados utilizou-se roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada com as governanças dos Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APL´s) da região Sudoeste do Paraná, no intuito de detectar a forma organizativa e cooperativa destes, bem como com empresas de cada APL visando se construir um diagnóstico setorial individual. Outro conjunto de entrevistas envolveu dirigentes de instituições de ensino técnico e profissional públicas e privadas, sendo, IFPR e sistema “S”, com o objetivo de detectar as formas de condução da educação profissional na região. O trabalho se estrutura em três partes essenciais, a primeira faz um resgate histórico da educação profissional no Brasil, desde as Escolas de Artes e Ofícios, no Período Colonial até culminar em 2008, com a instalação dos Institutos Federais. A segunda parte faz uma revisão conceitual sobre as teorias das aglomerações produtivas, chegando-se à terminologia adotada no Brasil, de Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APL´s). A terceira parte apresenta os resultados da pesquisa, na qual se identificou três Arranjos Produtivos Locais da região Sudoeste do Paraná, categorizados pelo IPARDES - confecções, móveis e software. A seguir, foi apresentado um diagnóstico individual de cada APL, com suas demandas específicas, para se avaliar as possibilidades de atuação do IFPR – Campus Palmas-PR. Além disso, avaliou-se a educação técnica e profissional na região lócus do estudo, a partir de suas instituições. Uma das conclusões evidencia uma principal deficiência, comum a todos os APL´s da região: a falta de mão de obra qualificada. Esta constatação abriria uma grande possibilidade de atuação do IFPR, se não fosse uma segunda conclusão obtida - a limitação geográfica - uma distância média de 200km entre o campus Palmas e os municípios de localização dos APL´s. Contudo, são cogitadas outras formas de suporte aos APL´s, através da pesquisa e inovação, participação nas governanças e o fomento a outras atividades econômicas locais que possuem potencial a tornarem-se APL´s. / A new campus of Federal Institute of Paraná was implemented in 2010, in the city of Palmas, Paraná. Its local e regional mission is to provide supporting actions to local clusters (arranjos produtivos locais – APL).The objective of this research was to discuss the possibilities and limitations of the relationship between the Federal Institute of Paraná - Campus Palmas and local clusters in the southwest region of Paraná. The methodology used was exploratory, documentary and field research. The institutional documents used were Law No. 11.892/2008, which describes the creation of the Federal Institutes, the Statute of the Institution of the Federal Institute of Paraná and publication Concepts and Installation Guidelines of the Federal Institutes. For the field research, semi-structured interviews with governance’s production arrangements were used, in order to detect its organizational and cooperative form and also with the companies in each cluster (APL) to build a sectorial and individual diagnostic. Another set of interviews addressed the institutions of technical and vocational education, IFPR, "S" system and private initiative, aiming to detect forms of conducting professional education in the region. The work is structured in three essential parts. The first is a historical review of vocational education in Brazil, from the Imperial period culminating in 2008, with the installation of the Federal Institutes. The second part is a review on conceptual theories of productive clusters, reaching the terminology adopted in Brazil, local clusters (APL's). The third part presents the results of the research, where it was identified as a local production of the southwest region of Paraná, categorized by IPARDES, the arrangement of clothing, furniture and software. It then presented a diagnostic of each individual APL, with its specific demands, to evaluate the possibilities of intervention of IFPR - Campus Palmas. In a second stage, the results evaluated the technical and vocational education in the region from its institutions. One of the conclusions was that the main shortcoming common to all APL's from the region is the lack of skilled labor. This finding would open a high possibility of IFPR performance, but a second conclusion obtained from geographical limitations brings a new challenge, because it was recorded an average distance of 200km between the IFPR campus and the municipalities of APL's location, making the teaching process not viable. However, other forms are contemplated to support APL's, through research and innovation and participation in governances. Finally, the essentially quantitative method of categorization of local clusters was questioned, which prevents the analysis of a series of economic activities of lower volume, but with significant potential for social inclusion, leading role of the Federal Institutes.

Em 2010, instala-se na cidade de Palmas no Paraná, um Campus do Instituto Federal do Paraná (IFPR), com a missão de atuação na comunidade local e regional, tendo com um dos balizadores de atuação, o suporte aos Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APL´s). Neste contexto, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi o de avaliar as possibilidades e limites de atuação do Instituto Federal do Paraná – Campus Palmas nos Arranjos Produtivos Locais da região Sudoeste do Paraná. A pesquisa caracterizou-se como documental e de campo, exploratória. Os documentos institucionais utilizados foram a Lei n° 11.892/2008, de criação dos Institutos Federais, o Estatuto de Instituição do Instituto Federal do Paraná e a publicação Concepções e Diretrizes para Instalação dos Institutos Federais. Para a coleta de dados utilizou-se roteiro de entrevista semiestruturada com as governanças dos Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APL´s) da região Sudoeste do Paraná, no intuito de detectar a forma organizativa e cooperativa destes, bem como com empresas de cada APL visando se construir um diagnóstico setorial individual. Outro conjunto de entrevistas envolveu dirigentes de instituições de ensino técnico e profissional públicas e privadas, sendo, IFPR e sistema “S”, com o objetivo de detectar as formas de condução da educação profissional na região. O trabalho se estrutura em três partes essenciais, a primeira faz um resgate histórico da educação profissional no Brasil, desde as Escolas de Artes e Ofícios, no Período Colonial até culminar em 2008, com a instalação dos Institutos Federais. A segunda parte faz uma revisão conceitual sobre as teorias das aglomerações produtivas, chegando-se à terminologia adotada no Brasil, de Arranjos Produtivos Locais (APL´s). A terceira parte apresenta os resultados da pesquisa, na qual se identificou três Arranjos Produtivos Locais da região Sudoeste do Paraná, categorizados pelo IPARDES - confecções, móveis e software. A seguir, foi apresentado um diagnóstico individual de cada APL, com suas demandas específicas, para se avaliar as possibilidades de atuação do IFPR – Campus Palmas-PR. Além disso, avaliou-se a educação técnica e profissional na região lócus do estudo, a partir de suas instituições. Uma das conclusões evidencia uma principal deficiência, comum a todos os APL´s da região: a falta de mão de obra qualificada. Esta constatação abriria uma grande possibilidade de atuação do IFPR, se não fosse uma segunda conclusão obtida - a limitação geográfica - uma distância média de 200km entre o campus Palmas e os municípios de localização dos APL´s. Contudo, são cogitadas outras formas de suporte aos APL´s, através da pesquisa e inovação, participação nas governanças e o fomento a outras atividades econômicas locais que possuem potencial a tornarem-se APL´s. / A new campus of Federal Institute of Paraná was implemented in 2010, in the city of Palmas, Paraná. Its local e regional mission is to provide supporting actions to local clusters (arranjos produtivos locais – APL).The objective of this research was to discuss the possibilities and limitations of the relationship between the Federal Institute of Paraná - Campus Palmas and local clusters in the southwest region of Paraná. The methodology used was exploratory, documentary and field research. The institutional documents used were Law No. 11.892/2008, which describes the creation of the Federal Institutes, the Statute of the Institution of the Federal Institute of Paraná and publication Concepts and Installation Guidelines of the Federal Institutes. For the field research, semi-structured interviews with governance’s production arrangements were used, in order to detect its organizational and cooperative form and also with the companies in each cluster (APL) to build a sectorial and individual diagnostic. Another set of interviews addressed the institutions of technical and vocational education, IFPR, "S" system and private initiative, aiming to detect forms of conducting professional education in the region. The work is structured in three essential parts. The first is a historical review of vocational education in Brazil, from the Imperial period culminating in 2008, with the installation of the Federal Institutes. The second part is a review on conceptual theories of productive clusters, reaching the terminology adopted in Brazil, local clusters (APL's). The third part presents the results of the research, where it was identified as a local production of the southwest region of Paraná, categorized by IPARDES, the arrangement of clothing, furniture and software. It then presented a diagnostic of each individual APL, with its specific demands, to evaluate the possibilities of intervention of IFPR - Campus Palmas. In a second stage, the results evaluated the technical and vocational education in the region from its institutions. One of the conclusions was that the main shortcoming common to all APL's from the region is the lack of skilled labor. This finding would open a high possibility of IFPR performance, but a second conclusion obtained from geographical limitations brings a new challenge, because it was recorded an average distance of 200km between the IFPR campus and the municipalities of APL's location, making the teaching process not viable. However, other forms are contemplated to support APL's, through research and innovation and participation in governances. Finally, the essentially quantitative method of categorization of local clusters was questioned, which prevents the analysis of a series of economic activities of lower volume, but with significant potential for social inclusion, leading role of the Federal Institutes.

Orientadores: Oscar Antonio Braunbeck, Julieta Teresa Aier de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Agrícola / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T19:39:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cardoso_TerezinhadeFatima_M.pdf: 2585445 bytes, checksum: 0025f2559d952a41ba95e3aeaca32ca5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: No Brasil, o setor sucroalcooleiro viveu um momento de grandes investimentos, impulsionado principalmente pelo aumento da frota de automóveis do tipo "flex fuel", e pela expectativa de aumento das exportações, considerando a meta de adição de etanol à gasolina no mundo todo. Governo e organizações privadas estão se conscientizando da necessidade de ações para aumentar a produção e a produtividade. Dentre tais medidas, estão a ampliação das áreas de plantio, a otimização do processo de plantio e colheita da cana-de-açúcar, bem como a otimização da produção de etanol. No entanto, as referidas medidas para elevar a produtividade implicam questões ambientais, econômicas, sociais e tecnológicas, ganhando expressão com o processo de mecanização. Este trabalho tem por objetivo analisar a qualificação de mão-de-obra no processo de implantação da mecanização do setor agrícola sucroalcooleiro. Para tanto, foram considerados quatro cenários de mecanização: Cenário I - Tradicional, Cenário II - Mecanizado, Cenário III - Informatizado e Cenário IV - Auxílio Mecânico, e o grau de qualificação da mão-de-obra requerida em cada um deles. Foram visitadas três usinas sucroalcooleiras, duas que representam o cenário I e uma unidade que representa o cenário II, de acordo com o índice de mecanização empregado, e realizada uma projeção para os cenários III e IV, visando identificar as carências de qualificação da mão-de-obra no setor. Verificou-se que a mecanização assim como as tecnologias associadas, como a agricultura de precisão, exige funcionários com escolaridade e capacitação acima da encontrada no quadro de funcionários das usinas pesquisadas, principalmente no que se refere ao plantio e corte manual, situação que aponta para a necessidade de um programa mais abrangente de qualificação e treinamento para o setor / Abstract: The Brazilian sugar and alcohol sector is going through a process of large investments driven mostly by the growing fleet of flex fuel automobiles, and also by expectations about increasing exports of ethanol for worldwide blending with gasoline. Government and private organizations are becoming aware of the need for actions required to increase production and productivity. Among these actions are the increase of farming areas, optimization of the planting and harvesting processes as well as the ethanol production process. Along with those changes several questions arise related to environmental, economical, social and technological matters, in which agricultural mechanization is included. The objective of this work is to analyze the need for labor qualification in the processes of rapid mechanization that is taking place. For the study three mechanization sceneries were considered: scenery I- Traditional, scenery II- mechanized, scenery III- computerized and scenery IV- mechanically aided. Labor qualification required was analyzed in all three cases. Three sugar mills were visited, two of them can be included in scenery I and the third one in scenery II; scenery III and scenery IV are just a future view according to the present trends. In all cases labor qualification shortages were identified. It was found that increasing mechanization labels are associated with higher level of labor qualification at the mills. Mechanizations of the planting and harvesting operations together with the still incipient applications of precision farming require higher qualified labor than manual planting and harvesting operations / Mestrado / Maquinas Agricolas / Mestre em Engenharia Agrícola

D.Phil. (Personal and Professional Leadership) / For most graduates, entry into the working world is the start of everything they have aimed for through school and university. (Holden & Hamblett, 2007). They arrive with an intense desire to prove themselves, along with often unrealistic expectations of what the organisation will deliver. The organisation, driven by deadlines, profits, and promises to shareholders, has its own aims, and all this is situated “in a time of vast changes – changes so epochal that they may dwarf those experiences in earlier eras… changes that call for new educational forms and processes.” (Gardner, 2006, p.11). Add to this South Africa’s specific issues around quality of education, historical inequalities, and culturally disparate workforces, and you have multiple reasons for why both business and graduates could “fail to achieve their real goals” (Schein, 1964, p. 68). In order to better support graduates, it is necessary to more deeply understand the nature of the graduate transition from university to the world of work. As identity is critical to the process of adapting to new professional roles, I focused on the graduate identity journey in the first year of work (Ibarra, 1999). Using constructivist grounded theory, I tracked a group of 20 graduates over a one-year period, in a graduate development programme in a financial insitiution in Johannesburg, South Africa. Comparing the data I collected to Holmes’s (2001) Claim-affirmation Model of Emergent Identity, I provide insight into the identity issues that graduates need to overcome during this first year, how these issues impact their self-esteem, personal agency, and self-efficacy, and which coping methods they choose to employ during this time. The results suggest that by providing graduates with a liminal temporary identity, the graduate identity, they are better able to manage the transition from student identity to professional identity. The temporary graduate identity allows them to play with their identity rather than work at their identity while on the graduate programme (Ibarra & Petriglieri, 2011). In order to create the temporary graduate identity it is suggested that graduate development programmes need to be reconceptualised as rites of passage, filled with ritualised activities that enable graduates to experience communitas with other graduates on the programme (Turner, 2008). Various graduate rituals are suggested to this end. Within the graduate rite of passage, graduates need to be supported in developing their interpersonal, intrapersonal and technical skills. To help graduates develop deeper insight into self and others, a graduate self development model is proposed. In order to support the development of technical skills, rotational technical skills programmes and fixed role programmes are explored. A framework is suggested for how to develop rotational programmes that maximise the pros and minimise the cons of rotational programmes. In order for the graduate programme managers to best support graduates during their time on the programme I recommend that they need to become more sensitive to the needs of the graduates, I adapt the graduate self development model and offer this as a tool for programme managers self development. This model will help graduate programme managers to begin to uncover some of their own stereotypes and unconcious biases, and more deeply develop their coaching, mentoring and supporting skills. Many of the graduate issues that arise while on the graduate programme involve graduates and managers leaping to conclusions based on faulty assumptions about each other. This often results in an impasse between graduates and their managers. I suggest that graduate programme managers take on the added role of mediator in order to point out to graduates, and their managers, how they might be misconstruing each other, therefore helping to avert some of the issues graduates experience. The findings of this study therefore have implications for graduate programme managers, and provides insight into how to better design and develop future graduate programmes.