BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Nurse managers are in an excellent position for providing leadership and support within the institutions they serve and are often responsible for accessing information that is vital to the improvement of health facility processes and patients' outcomes. Therefore, competency in informatics is essential. The purposes of this study are to examine current informatics compete...

WH AT T H I S C O M P E T E N C Y E N TA I L S The Healthcare Leadership Alliance (HLA) defines this competency as “the demonstrated understanding of the health care system and the environment in which health care managers and providers function.” According to HLA’s research, this competency involves 18 areas that are particularly important for healthcare leaders to master. These areas can be o...

Although previous research has established that physical height matters in hiring contexts, it is less clear through which channels height exerts its effect. The current research examines several potential components of the height premium: warmth, competence, job competency for a leadership position, physical health, and attractiveness. We made target individuals taller or shorter by digitally ...

This study seeks to examine the effect of entrepreneurial competencies (innovation, leadership, networking and risk-taking) on survival SMEs in KSA. The literature review evaluates relationship between each their worldwide. We have opted adopt a descriptive research design. findings reveal that (innovation competency, leadership competency risk-taking competency) SME owners/managers (entreprene...

The literature suggests that there is a need for measuring public health informatics (PHI) competency to further understand whether current educational modules and modalities meet the needs of PHI practitioners and researchers to perform their jobs more effectively, particularly for mid-tier practitioners that constitute the majority of public health workers in the USA. The present study seeks ...