Soft skills are a collection of people management skills, important to many professions and job positions, including academic librarianship. Yet the concept of soft skills lacks definition, scope, instrumentation, and systematic education and training. This literature review explores the definition of soft skills; contrasts skills with related concepts, such as personality traits, attitudes, be...

What skills do project managers (PMs) need, and how do these skills impact project success in IT outsourcing? In this study, we seek to identify what factors impact IT project outcomes, such as costs and client satisfaction, given the project characteristics and PM’s hard and soft skills. We examine data collected from a field study conducted at a major IT service provider in India. Our results...

Zusammenfassung Welche Schwerpunkte setzen Lehrende abhängig vom Weiterbildungsinhalt bei der Stützung transferförderlicher Maßnahmen? Um dies zu ermitteln, wurden in vorliegenden Studie aus berufsbezogenen Weiterbildung ( N = 418) mittels einer Online-Erhebung ihrem transferförderlichen Vorgehen befragt. Eine einfaktorielle MANOVA ergab für sämtliche Maßnahmenbereiche einen signifikanten Unter...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to gauge the technical and soft skills of the hospital security personnel so as to enable prioritization of their training needs. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional questionnaire based study was conducted in December 2011. Two separate predesigned and pretested questionnaires were used for gauging soft skills and technical skills of the security personnel. Extensive stat...

The article presents the main aspects of theoretical and experimental study conditions for “soft skills” formation future athletes physical education teachers in higher institution. content features a professional are revealed. place "soft skills" structure athlete teacher personality role implementation activities is determined. Complex multi-level solution problems; critical thinking; creativ...