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1 – 10 of 244Fabienne Kiener, Ann-Sophie Gnehm and Uschi Backes-Gellner
The purpose of this paper is to investigate self-competenceâthe ability to act responsibly on one's ownâand likely nonlinear wage returns across different levels of self-competence…
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate self-competenceâthe ability to act responsibly on one's ownâand likely nonlinear wage returns across different levels of self-competence as part of training curricula.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors identify the teaching of self-competence at the occupational level by applying machine-learning methods to the texts of occupational training curricula. Defining three levels of self-competence (high, medium, and low) and using individual labor market data, the authors examine nonlinearities in wage returns to different levels of self-competence.
Findings
The authors find nonlinear returns to teaching self-competence: a medium level of self-competence taught in an occupation has the largest wage returns compared to low or high levels. However, in occupations with a high cognitive requirement profile, a high level of self-competence generates positive wage returns.
Originality/value
This paper first adds to research on the importance of teaching noncognitive skills for economic outcomes, which recentlyâin addition to personality traits researchâhas primarily focused on social skills by introducing self-competence as another largely unexplored but important noncognitive skill. Second, the paper studies not only average but also nonlinear wage returns, showing that the right level of self-competence is crucial, i.e. neither teaching too little nor too much self-competence provides favorable returns because of trade-offs with other skills (e.g. technical or professional skills). Third, the paper also examines complementarities between cognitive skills and noncognitive skills, again pointing toward nonlinear returns, i.e. only in occupations with a high cognitive requirement profile, high levels of self-competence generate positive wage returns.
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Domenico Berdicchia, Francesco Nicolli and Giovanni Masino
â The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between job enlargement and some specific job crafting behaviors and to analyze the moderating role of self-competence.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between job enlargement and some specific job crafting behaviors and to analyze the moderating role of self-competence.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were gathered from 158 workers in a large retail company and analyzed through a regression methodology.
Findings
Job enlargement is positively related to specific job crafting behaviors, such as increasing structural and social resources. Self-competence does not moderate the relationship between job enlargement and increasing structural resources; however, it does negatively moderate the relationship between job enlargement and increasing social resources.
Research limitations/implications
This is a cross-sectional, single source study.
Practical/implications
Organizations may implement job design policies aimed at facilitating the way workers proactively craft their jobs (increasing social and structural resources) by promoting a collaborative organizational culture and decreasing the social costs of job crafting initiatives.
Originality/value
This study clarifies the role of contextual and personal antecedents to job crafting. More specifically, it shows that enlarged jobs and employeesâ level of self-competence may significantly influence employeesâ job crafting in the workplace.
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Emerson Wagner Mainardes, Eduardo Henrique Brandão Nogueira and Talles Vianna Brugni
The authors aimed to investigate whether the competencies of public servants (self-competence, teamwork competence, change competence, communication competence (CC) and ethical…
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Purpose
The authors aimed to investigate whether the competencies of public servants (self-competence, teamwork competence, change competence, communication competence (CC) and ethical competence) influence their organizational commitment and indirectly their job satisfaction.
Design/methodology/approach
Based on a structural model from the literature, the authors conducted a survey with 463 Brazilian public servants using a questionnaire, and the authors evaluated the measurement model through confirmatory component analysis (CCA). Then, the authors used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the structural model.
Findings
The authors' results showed that the ethical competence construct tends to have a direct positive influence on the organizational commitment construct and indirectly influences the job satisfaction of public servants. On the other hand, the authors found that the self-competence, teamwork competence, change competence and CC constructs did not impact organizational commitment or job satisfaction indirectly.
Originality/value
The authors conclude that developing ethical competence in public servants is likely to increase their organizational commitment and indirectly positively affect their job satisfaction. This research tested the five dimensions of competencies under a new focus, public service, seeking to evidence their relationships with the organizational commitment and job satisfaction of public servants, filling a gap in the literature.
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Mohd Abass Bhat and Shagufta Tariq Khan
The aim of this study was to examine the determinants of accounting students' decision to pursue a career path.
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Purpose
The aim of this study was to examine the determinants of accounting students' decision to pursue a career path.
Design/methodology/approach
Quantitative approach was used to analyze the impact of independent variables (career exposure, self-competence, financial award, work environment, social values and market factors) on dependent variable (career path). Data were collected from 264 students of University of Technology and Applied Sciences, Oman. Structural equation modeling technique was mainly utilized to determine the causal relationship between the variables.
Findings
The most influencing factor is financial award followed by market factors and work environment. However, other variables such as career exposure and self-competence though significantly determine career path of the students but are the least contributors to the model. In addition, social value was found insignificant and negative contributor to the model.
Practical implications
The findings of the current study confirm the propositions of the theory of planned behavior that student's decision to pursue career as ACCA-certified accountants is shaped by attitudinal factors as well as subjective norms factors and perceived behavior control. This study's theoretical findings can be used to supplement empirical evidence on impact of career exposure, self-competence, financial awards, work environment, social values and market factors to take the ACCA exam (career path). The implications of this research for academic institutions include providing convenience for students, such as ACCA exam scholarship offers if they have graduated with cum laude and obtained work experience because ACCA involves time and money to participate in.
Originality/value
There has been virtually little research in Oman on this subject though. Investigating Omani accounting students' aspirations to work in public accounting adds additional insight into the field.
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Marco Giovanni Mariani, Matteo Curcuruto and Ivan Gaetani
The purpose of this research is to study the role of the opportunity to receive job training in enhancing people's willingness to accept information technologies (IT) and in…
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Purpose
The purpose of this research is to study the role of the opportunity to receive job training in enhancing people's willingness to accept information technologies (IT) and in achieving employee satisfaction. The study aims to consider training opportunities as a predictor of IT self-competence, TAM model constructs and job satisfaction.
Design/methodology/approach
Structural equation models are used with a sample of 497 Italian workers who filled in a questionnaire.
Findings
The results show a good fit between hypothesis and empirical data. Moderator roles of individual and contextual variables on training opportunities effects were studied.
Practical implications
The practical implications of this study relate to the role played by training opportunities in the IT acceptance process and in creating job satisfaction.
Originality/value
The most innovative finding pertains to moderator roles of individual and contextual variables on training opportunities effects.
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The EUâfunded research project âFifobi â Fit for Business â developing business competencies in schoolâ (2009â2012) focused on the implementation of economic education in seven…
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The EUâfunded research project âFifobi â Fit for Business â developing business competencies in schoolâ (2009â2012) focused on the implementation of economic education in seven European countries. The purpose of the project and this paper is to investigate the current programmes that exist within the final two years of compulsory education in the field of business education and preâvocational education.
Design/methodology/approach
In year one a thorough analysis of the curriculum was carried out. After a comprehensive evaluation personal interviews with teachers followed in year two and in year three personal interviews with representatives of the Social Partnership were conducted.
Findings
The Austrian curricula show a definite and clear focus on basic knowledge in economics. Social and selfâcompetences have to be taught in all subjects, but are poorly linked to the content of individual subjects. Many aspects of social and selfâcompetences are part of career orientation classes. A relatively small focus, however, is put on entrepreneurial thinking and acting.
Originality/value
The main objective for next steps is to draw up a new strategy of teaching to develop economic, business, socialâ and self competencies with the focus on responsibility for a local, regional, national and global level. The aim is to activate children and young people for global relations, formations of critical thinking and acting in economic education and global education.
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Muhammad Aqeel and Tasnim Rehna
The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence and association among school refusal behavior, self-esteem, parental school involvement and aggression in punctual and…
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence and association among school refusal behavior, self-esteem, parental school involvement and aggression in punctual and truant school-going adolescents.
Design/methodology/approach
A purposive sampling technique and cross-sectional design were used in the current study. Participants comprised three heterogeneous sub-groups: school truant students, park truant students and punctual students.
Findings
This studyâs findings indicated that father and motherâs school involvement was related to more elevated level of self-esteem for school truant students. Results also indicated that male truant students had more significant probability to school refusal behavior and physical aggression as compared to female truant students. Moreover, results revealed that physical aggression fully mediated among motherâs school involvement, academic self and school refusal behavior in punctual students and school truant students.
Originality/value
There is more need to develop indigenous school-based preventions and interventions aimed at decreasing school truancy in Pakistani context by tackling the predisposing vulnerable factors and supporting and encouraging the protective family and internal factors.
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Gerrit Meyer, Bianca Brünig and Peter Nyhuis
The purpose of this paper is to present competences that are highly relevant for manufacturing today and tomorrow. Following a discussion on the concept of âcompetenceâ, a variety…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present competences that are highly relevant for manufacturing today and tomorrow. Following a discussion on the concept of âcompetenceâ, a variety of competences are presented and classified into the four facets professional, methodological, social, and self-competence.
Design/methodology/approach
Using an exploratory method, the paper aims at describing relevant manufacturing-related competences with the help of an online survey. Experts, mostly from the production management or HR departments of manufacturing companies in Germany, were polled and asked to evaluate the relevancy of a list of competences for manufacturing.
Findings
For the experts, flawless execution and quality awareness are competences with a very high relevance, whereas analytical abilities have very little meaning. The experts questioned expect openness to change to undergo the strongest increase in importance.
Practical implications
This paper shows competences particularly relevant for future production, so that companies can derive specific competence development measures. The findings are descriptive only, but should enable companies to identify specific competence gaps and to select measures to develop competences.
Originality/value
This paper attempts to bridge the gap between academics and practice by outlining relevant manufacturing competences that have been evaluated by managers. This is in contrast to most scientific research that classifies manufacturing-related competences as important based on own assessment.
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Sherin Hassan Mabrouk, Abeer Ali Rasheed, Rania Mohammed Abdul Jawad, Lamyaa Mohamed Badr Ali Marzouk, Samah Ramzy Abdulghani and Walaa Saleh Megahed Saleh
The level of mental alertness among students who are in need of study in the preparatory year â Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University. The level of self-competence of female…
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Purpose
The level of mental alertness among students who are in need of study in the preparatory year â Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University. The level of self-competence of female students who are in need of study in the preparatory year â Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University. To learn about the relationship between mental alertness and self-competence among students who are in need of study in the preparatory year â Imam Abdul Rahman Bin Faisal University.
Design/methodology/approach
The researchers used the experimental method by following the experimental design with two measurements, tribal and posterior, for two groups, one experimental and the other control, due to its suitability to the nature of this research. Research sample: the research community included female students stumbling in the scientific path of Rayyan, the second semester of the academic year 2020â2021 AD, where the researchers selected the research sample in a deliberate manner from the stalled students of 25 students and a random sample of 10 female students was withdrawn to conduct the exploratory study. The number of the basic research sample is 15 female students. Reasons for selecting the search sample: all of the sample members are female students stumbling in the scientific path of Al-Rayyan for the academic year 2020â2021 and all sample members agree to apply the research.
Findings
The researchers refer to this to the virtual psychological guidance program-specific objectives, as well as the follow-up of the scientific principles and principles and the legalization of the measurement tools used in the research and the diversity of the program within the parts of the program and the training sought to develop the ability to manage pressures and emotions and training in social skills, awareness and self-awareness and the use of exercises relaxation, breathing and modern self-help, as well as the use of different methods and techniques such as the method of dialogue, discussion, awareness of feelings and problem-solving, which led to a change in behavior and personal characteristics, which led to a change in behavior and personal characteristics, leading to the development of behavior and personal characteristics.
Originality/value
The study aims to design a hypothetical psychological counseling program as a method of health care and its effect on the level of mental alertness and the level of self-efficacy of students who have struggled to study at the Deanship of the preparatory year â Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University. The researchers used the experimental approach and applied this study on a sample of 25 students from the students who failed to study at the Deanship of the preparatory year for the second semester of the academic year 2020â2021 AD and the most important results were that the psychological counseling program as a method of health care had a positive effect on improving the level of mental alertness and the level of self-efficacy among the students who had failed to study. There is a positive correlation between the level of mental alertness and self-efficacy of struggling students as a way of health care.
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The purpose of this research is to examine relationships between emotional intelligence and the four factor model of cultural intelligence â metacognitive CQ, cognitive CQ…
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Purpose
The purpose of this research is to examine relationships between emotional intelligence and the four factor model of cultural intelligence â metacognitive CQ, cognitive CQ, motivational CQ, and behavioral CQ.
Design/methodology/approach
Confirmatory factor analyses and hierarchical regression analyses on data from 381 students in Korea are conducted.
Findings
The results support discriminant validity of the four factor model of cultural intelligence scale (CQS) in relation to the emotional intelligence (EQ) construct. This study also demonstrates that the EQ factors related to social competence (social awareness and relationship management) explain CQ over and beyond the EQ factors related to selfâcompetence (selfâawareness, and relationship management). Finally, the results present that specific factors of EQ are related to specific factors of CQ.
Originality/value
The findings of this study demonstrate how CQ and EQ are distinct, but related constructs, which has not been conducted by prior research.
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