scholarly journals An Empirical Study on the Core Competencies of College Counselors in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-174
Author(s):  
Long Shibang ◽  
Yang Shaogang ◽  
Chen Huiyi
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
College Counselors ◽  
The Core ◽  
Moral Quality ◽  
Quality Character

From the perspective of empirical research, this paper conducts a specificstudy on the core competencies of college counselors. 450 participants from 4universities participated the research. A questionnaire of college counselors’ corecompetencies from the aspects of the design of open questionnaire was designedand implemented, a predictive questionnaire was tested and analyzed, and aformal questionnaire was implemented. The results of the formal questionnaireshow that component one mainly concerns ideological awareness and values,component two mainly concerns professional ethics, moral accomplishment,quality, character and attitude, while component three refers to various abilities atwork, and component four involves professional and cultural knowledge. Throughanalysis and discussion, it is concluded that the key elements of college counselors’core competencies include values, moral quality, vocational ability and culturalknowledge, and a structural model of their core competencies is constructed.

scholarly journals Psychological aspects of ensuring the efficiency of professional activity of a project engineers

2020 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 22041
Author(s):  
Оlena Khokhlina ◽  
Lubov Pomytkina ◽  
Lada Yakovytska ◽  
Oksana Lych ◽  
Denys Khokhlin
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Reference Method ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Individual Style

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical research of the problem of psychological aspects of ensuring the efficiency of professional activity of a Project Engineers in the context of the theory of general and special abilities, the need to take into account the general and individual-typological in the mental development of the subject of labor. The importance of considering professional skills in connection with the intellectual readiness of the subject to the activity and individual style of its implementation is theoretically substantiated. The empirical study revealed the presence of correlations between the efficiency of professional activity, psychological readiness and individual style of activity. The most referent in the description of the professional skills of project engineers are the time of labor tasks performance and individual style of activity, and the organizing factor in the unity of these indicators is the generalization of mental activity, which forms the core of intellectual readiness for work. Correlation analysis of the data allowed us to identify the presence of clear links between: 1) the efficiency of activity by time indicator and ISA: the more ISA corresponds to the reference method, the less time is spent on solving the labor task, and vice versa; 2) between ISA and intellectual readiness for activity; the higher the level of complexity of labor tasks, the higher the level of correlation between these phenomena.

Examining the mediating role of innovativeness in the link between core competencies and SME performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee Song Ng ◽  
Daisy Mui Hung Kee ◽  
T. Ramayah
Keyword(s):  
Financial Performance ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Technical Competence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effect of core competencies, namely, transformational leadership (TFL), entrepreneurial competence and technical competence on financial performance through the mediation effect of innovativeness, among owner-managed small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries. Design/methodology/approach A research model was developed to test nine research hypotheses. Self-report questionnaires designed for this study were sent to SME owner-managers in Malaysia. A total of 178 completed questionnaires were successfully collected. SPSS and SmartPLS were used to perform the data analysis to test the measurement model and structural model. Findings This paper provides empirical evidence that behavioural innovativeness mediates the relationship between TFL and financial performance, product innovativeness mediates the relationships among entrepreneurial competence, technical competence and financial performance and process innovativeness mediates the relationship between technical competence and financial performance. Research limitations/implications The findings of this study are potentially limited by perceptual measures, cross-sectional data and the risk of response bias from a single informant. Practical implications Owner-managed SMEs can focus on developing the core competencies to achieve financial performance through innovative products, processes and behaviours. Policymakers and practitioners can gain fresh insights into the complexity of sustaining the business activities and financial performance of SMEs through the core competencies and innovativeness. Originality/value The extant literature has revealed that entrepreneurship, leadership, expertise and innovativeness are considered key factors in promoting financial performance, yet little is known about the combined effects of the core competencies on financial performance through innovativeness for owner-managed SMEs in the context of a developing country. The study makes an important contribution to filling this research gap.

scholarly journals An Empirical Study of Application of Cultural Confidence to Translation Teaching in College English

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Yiqin Zou ◽  
Xiao Huang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Teaching Experiment ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Teaching Approach ◽  
College English ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Chinese And English

This paper presents the validity and credibility of the effect of translation teaching in College English (CE) interfered with comparative linguistic cultural knowledge between Chinese and English aiming at raising non-English majors’ cultural confidence on translation competence. Based on empirical research, the details of our research include questionnaire, pre-test, teaching experiment, post-test and interview. The analysis of data of pre-test and post-test through SPSS 26.0 reveals that the translation competence of students in Experimental Class (EC) has been improved significantly after a semester’s new translation teaching approach. Students hold positive attitudes to raising their cultural confidence in translation teaching by introducing linguistic cultural knowledge. Two implications, the improvement of discourse system combining the Eastern and Western culture and the positive effects of translation teaching in CE have been discussed. And three limitations, the time, the size, and importantly the abstract aspect of linguistic cultural knowledge itself on a comparative perspective of the study have been put forward at the end of this paper.

An Input–Process–Output Model of Pilot Core Competencies

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heikki Mansikka ◽  
Don Harris ◽  
Kai Virtanen
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Input Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Performance Framework ◽  
Process Output

Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the flight-related core competencies for professional airline pilots and to structuralize them as components in a team performance framework. To achieve this, the core competency scores from a total of 2,560 OPC (Operator Proficiency Check) missions were analyzed. A principal component analysis (PCA) of pilots’ performance scores across the different competencies was conducted. Four principal components were extracted and a path analysis model was constructed on the basis of these factors. The path analysis utilizing the core competencies extracted adopted an input–process–output’ (IPO) model of team performance related directly to the activities on the flight deck. The results of the PCA and the path analysis strongly supported the proposed IPO model.

Adaptations of Time Travel Narratives in Japanese Multimedia: Nurturing Eudaimonia across Time and Space

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Ae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Travel Narratives ◽  
Time Travel ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
The Future ◽  
Live Action

To displace a character in time is to depict a character who becomes acutely conscious of his or her status as other, as she or he strives to comprehend and interact with a culture whose mentality is both familiar and different in obvious and subtle ways. Two main types of time travel pose a philosophical distinction between visiting the past with knowledge of the future and trying to inhabit the future with past cultural knowledge, but in either case the unpredictable impact a time traveller may have on another society is always a prominent theme. At the core of Japanese time travel narratives is a contrast between self-interested and eudaimonic life styles as these are reflected by the time traveller's activities. Eudaimonia is a ‘flourishing life’, a life focused on what is valuable for human beings and the grounding of that value in altruistic concern for others. In a study of multimodal narratives belonging to two sets – adaptations of Tsutsui Yasutaka's young adult novella The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Yamazaki Mari's manga series Thermae Romae – this article examines how time travel narratives in anime and live action film affirm that eudaimonic living is always a core value to be nurtured.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF ARCHITECTURE GRADUATES: PERCEPTIONS FROM GRADUATES, ACADEMICS AND EMPLOYERS IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Joy Joshua Maina
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Study Results

The clamour for better quality graduates by architects in the Nigerian Construction Industry (NCI) necessitates a look into the core competencies and the adequacy of architecture education in preparing architecture graduates for professional practice. 116 self-report likertscale questionnaires from architecture graduates (2009-2015), academics and employers were analysed to establish core competencies developed by the graduates while in school. Descriptive statistics, t-tests as well as Mann-Whitney tests for differences in ratings were employed for the study. Results reveal the perceived adequacy of architecture education for the future career of graduates from the academic perspective. Graduates were most proficient at design related competencies while AutoCAD was still considered the most important CAD competency for architecture graduates in the NCI. The study recommends more frequent evaluations of competencies for employability in collaboration with industry as well as embracing BIM related software in line with global best practices. Keywords: Academics, Architecture, Employers, Graduates, Professional competencies, NCI

Interdisciplinary Human Factors Curricula for Individualized, Independent Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 1390-1394
Author(s):  
Esa M. Rantanen ◽  
Hamza Khammash ◽  
James C. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Independent Study ◽  
New Professionals ◽  
Interdisciplinary Programs ◽  
The Core ◽  
Disciplinary Programs ◽  
Board Of Certification ◽  
University Course

Education and career development of new generations of human factors professionals has rightly been a central concern the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society for many decades. There have been periodic surveys to track the changing employer expectations for new professionals, and there have been several panel discussion at the HFES Annual Meetings to address various issues in education of future professionals. There have been significant changes in academia, where many traditional disciplinary programs are declining and new interdisciplinary programs are emerging. These trends may present novel opportunities for education of the future human factors workforce. In this project we surveyed all courses in a university course catalog to identify courses that offer training, to varying degrees, in the Core Competencies as defined by the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics. These courses could form a basis for interdisciplinary programs in human factors without being confined in any particular department or existing program.

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