The emerging economies have participated, albeit less than advanced market economies, in the new electronic modes of conducting business. This paper draws on a study of the multimedia industry which focuses on two developed (Canada and England) and two emerging economies (Turkey and Romania). Issues include: the nature of work (both process and outputs); employee characteristics; skills shortag...

This paper reports the results of a study that investigates changes in skill requirements of information systems professionals in Singapore. The study coded representative job advertisements that appeared in the newspapers over a period of fifteen years – from 1983 to 1998. The coding results indicate that job profiles for programmers and IS managers have not changed dramatically over the years...

Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) has conducted educational reforms since 1995 and joined the CDIO initiative at June, 2011. In the present paper, first, an overview of the KIT engineering educational program is presented, including the 2012 curriculum which was developed after joining the CDIO initiative. Second, an active learning system based on a “Comprehensive Learning Initiative Proc...

Medical residency has been considered a stressful, overwhelming period, which can contribute to the development of burnout syndrome. Given the importance of interpersonal interactions for the professional practice of medicine, studies addressing protective factors against burnout focusing on social skills are needed. The objective of the present study was to investigate the associations between...

INTRODUCTION Dissonance between the high 'technical' competences of medical professionals, including paramedics or emergency medical technicians (EMT), and the relatively low level of patient satisfaction with care received, is a phenomenon observed in many countries. Many studies show that it occurs in the case of an inadequate interpersonal communication between medical professionals and pati...

The min imum requirements to practice as a competent dentist have always been under the scanner. While universit ies and dental boards around the world have constantly endeavored to produce and maintain a quality dentist, there have often been questions on how the respective skills are to be assessed. Presently competency-based education focuses on developing the professional skills, which are ...

PURPOSE To assess the relationships of cognitive and noncognitive performance predictors to medical student preclinical and clinical performance indicators across medical school years 1 to 3 and to evaluate the association of psychological health/wellness factors with performance. METHOD In 2010, the authors conducted a cross-sectional, correlational, retrospective study of all 175 students a...

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workers need both motivation interpersonal skills in STEM disciplines. The aims of the study were to identify clusters adolescents who vary science explore what factors are related membership a high cluster. Participants included 467 (312 female; M age = 15.12 SD 1.71 year) recruited from out-of-school programs US UK. Findings latent class analy...