Faced with stagnating student achievement, the 10,500-student Adams 50 district in Westminster, Colo., launched an improvement initiative in 2008 that eliminated old notions of grade-level progression ...

An employee is hired based on his or her qualifications, which are determined by a job description and will be renewed based on a competency framework. The employee is subject to a set of rules and ...

Human resources management in small businesses can be highly structured as in large organizations, or less structured to permit flexibility in workforce planning, staffing and HR control over the ...

How do you stay relevant? That's the question many teachers ask themselves about their profession. They all want to be able to impart the skills required for each grade in the school career.

Healthcare for older adults requires a knowledgeable professional workforce. Yet less than one percent of health professionals are certified in geriatrics. This paper describes initiatives to assure ...

Competency-based interviews have long been considered a gold standard in hiring, focusing on skills, abilities and behavioral traits rather than solely on resumes. However, with today's diverse, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract I argue that a contemporary stronghold of a number of Thorstein Veblen's crucial ideas can be found in the emerging competence-based approach ...

Large increases in the number of immigrants to this country, many of whom will come to Alberta either as permanent residents or temporary workers and international students, have exacerbated pressures ...

Back in 2020, a wave of criticism hit business schools hard: we weren’t doing enough to equip future managers with the social and environmental awareness needed to tackle real-world challenges. We ...

In the UK, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit and retain qualified occupational health (OH) nurses. Between 1999 and 2001, it was estimated that only 250 nurses would qualify with a ...