The essence of cultural competence is analyzed as one the key factors for successful self-realization an individual. Considering tendencies Chinese education system (represented by author article) toward integration into globalized and culture, scientific normative sources various countries, including Ukraine China, UNESCO documents were considered. Recommendations European Parliament Council E...

The paper discusses the significance of firm specific knowledge and skills resources among employees, discusses strategies for measurement, and reports the results of an empirical study of learning and competence acquisition. First, the concept of firm specific competences as originally developed within neo-classical human capital theory is discussed. It is argued that the conceptualisation wit...

The adoption of Global Software Development (GSD) models by software development companies is growing continuously. A variety of challenges such as temporal, geographical and socio-cultural distance are hindering global organizations to achieve potential benefits. As a result, organizations need support in how to overcome the challenges. The emphasis in the literature to date has typically focu...

AbstrAct Collaborative design in dispersed groups of engineers creates various kinds of challenges to technology, organization and social environment. This paper presents an approach to description and representation of the competences needed for a planned collaborative design project. The most important competence areas BLOCKINare BLOCKINidentified BLOCKINstarting BLOCKINfrom BLOCKINthe BLOCKI...

This study mainly examined two hypotheses: the first, based on Benedict’s argument that Japanese culture is a “culture of shame,” is that Japanese interpersonal competences are facilitated by shame but not guilt, the second, narcissism inhibits use of the Japanese interpersonal competencies. The respondents were 408 Japanese university students. NPI-S, TOSCA-3, and JICS were applied for assessi...

Internet has completely changed the ways of producing and communicating knowledge. Today it is possible to attend University without any space or time limitation. The International Telematic University UNINETTUNO (UTIU) has been developing an organizational and psycho-pedagogical model and a technological structure, which, thanks to Internet, give everyone the possibility to attend the Universi...

Internet has completely changed the ways of producing and communicating knowledge. Today it is possible to attend University without any space or time limitation. The International Telematic University UNINETTUNO (UTIU) has been developing an organizational and psychopedagogical model and a technological structure, which, thanks to Internet, give everyone the possibility to attend the Universit...