With the increasingly turbulent environment and the significant role of customers in business success, creating and delivering superior customer value by deploying unique competences of a firm has been winning more attention. However, studies of customer value seem rather divergent and fragmented, and few studies, if any, have been conducted to identify the distinctive capabilities that determi...

Effective teams are crucial for organisations, especially in environments that require teams to be constantly created and dismantled, such as software development, scientific experiments, crowd-sourcing, or the classroom. Key factors influencing team performance are competences and personality of team members. Hence, we present a computational model to evaluate proficiency and congeniality of t...

This paper concerns a proposal for efficient increase methodology of ICT projects development, mainly shortening of projects completion, decreasing the costs as well as reducing the risk through project decomposition into activities in the form of their matrices. A project team, which is expected to carry out a particular project, goes through an identification process that includes description...

Studies have shown that in everyday school activities the predominating forms of learning are characterized by individualism and competition. Such atmosphere of individualism and competition can hardly have a positive influence on the development and stimulation of students’ competence in teaching literature. The focus of interactive learning is not only on cognitive competences, which the trad...

OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to explore the views of occupational therapists concerning their competences in health promotion, and their perceptions of how they apply these competences in their daily work. The study also elicited their views on the contributions that occupational therapists could make to health promotion if given the opportunity. METHODS Data were collected in five foc...

A paradigm shift from a knowledge to a competence society is going on, which also becomes increasingly important for educational and vocational training purposes. Skills and competences are employed to describe learning content, students’ capabilities, learning processes, and the like. Creating descriptions of skills and competences and assigning them manually is usually an exhausting task. Thu...

This paper addresses the nature of corporate organizations, their “competences” and “capabilities” and their learning patterns. The analysis is undertaken at different levels of observations – ranging from firm-level studies of the patterns of technological and organizational change all the way to broad cross-national comparisons.1 The analysis of the nature of corporate organizations, their “c...

We analyze whether unified or divided authority is optimal for voter welfare in a political agency model where multi-task issues arise from correlation in task-specific competences. The model highlights trade-offs within and across facets of voter welfare. Regarding incentives, unified authority yields higher total effort, but an allocation of that effort across tasks less fully aligned with vo...

This paper reviews discourses on multicultural education and the concept of intercultural competences in the European and Nordic country of Finland. We are interested in their present uses and perceptions by decision-makers, researchers, but also student teachers. Some prognosis for the future is made based on a short case study from art teacher education in this context. The article also repre...

this study aimed at investigating the state of tourism and sport tourism in abu dhabi which considered the competences of sport tourism, ongoing sport fields and the capacity and condition of places of residence in abu dhabi between 2004 and 2008. the statistical population equaled the sample consisting of 40 tourism authorities, experts and managers, hotel, sport club and travel agency manager...