While most newly qualified physicians are well prepared in the science base of medicine and in the skills that enable them to look after individual patients, few have the skills necessary to improve care and patient safety continuously. We apply a systems analysis from the field of human error to identify ways in which medical school education can increase the number of graduates prepared to re...

E-government – the use of information and communication technologies in public administrations, combined with proper organizational change and skills development – has become an explicit component of public sector reform, as an instrument increasing efficiency, strengthen competitiveness and enhance modernization. E-government enhances the delivery of improved public services and supports activ...

The article substantiates the relevance of students' organizational skills in learning and research activities shows that their formation determines productivity work efficiency. essence approaches to considering problem forming student’s is characterized: neuroscientific, psychological, sociological, phenomenological pedagogical. It noted education scientific lyceums has a research-oriented ch...

Developing good team skills usually involves exercises with all team members playing their role. This approach is costly and has organizational and educational drawbacks. For the Netherlands army, we developed a more efficient and flexible approach by setting training in virtual environments, and using intelligent software agents to play the role of team members. We developed a general framewor...

This paper reports on the results of a study examining factors having an impact on the skills in end-user computing. Based on existing literature a research model is presented and empirically tested. The analysis suggest, that IS usage (intensity and variety of use) and self-motivation have a direct impact on current skill level of end users, and self-motivation and favorable IS attitudes on IS...

Learning designs are central resources for educational environments because they provide the organizational structure of learning activities; they are concrete instructional methods. We characterize each learning design by the competencies they target. We define competencies at the meta-knowledge level, as generic processes acting on domainspecific knowledge. We summarize a functional taxonomy ...

In this paper we describe an early stage prototype of a system for information resource management in an agent-based virtual organization. We focus our work on support for human resource adaptability (e.g. knowledge, skills) as a tool for assisting project managers. In the proposed approach, a virtual organization is functionalized in terms of roles played by agents, while organization structur...

In this chapter we present a system for the management of team building and team update activities in the current human resource management scenario. The proposed system presents three important characteristics that appear particularly relevant in this scenario. Firstly, it exploits a suitable standard to uniformly represent and handle expert skills. Secondly, it is highly distributed and, ther...

A gap exists in understanding organizational career ladders for IT professionals. This gap is especially pronounced in organizations externally sourcing IT related activities to vendors, given that technical positions often feed the pipeline to mid-level roles. Based on prior research and qualitative discussions with key informants, this paper discusses the skills necessary for mid-level roles ...

This is an investigation of the interaction between organizational and management factors at work for both workers and supervisors in the manufacturing sector. Survey was done in a sample consisted of 23 establishments, 630 workers, and 47 supervisors, meanwhile 10 focus group discussions (FGDs) for workers, and 5 FGDs for supervisors. Workers and supervisors alike reported illnesses and job di...