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Mark Aaron Polger – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2024
This qualitative study examines how academic librarians understand, conceptualize, and describe their teacher identity. The role of the academic librarian has greatly changed due to the advent of information technology. Traditionally, they were generalists, who were responsible for selecting and maintaining library collections. Academic librarian…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Information Literacy, Courses, Librarians
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Fertig, Jason; Zeitz, Gerald; Blau, Gary – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
Though not extensively researched, third-party employee competency certifications are increasingly important to organizations. Certifications are double-edged: they may serve to reduce transaction costs, enhance performance, and foster employee development; but they can also be used as "credentials" to gain prestige, rewards, or influence. The…
Descriptors: Credentials, Rewards, Job Development, Competence
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Campion, Michael A. – Personnel Psychology, 1989
Measured multiple approaches to job design and examined relationships with ability requirements, using two distinctly different samples (total N=213 jobs), different measures of job design, and ability requirements. Found that motivational attributes of jobs related positively to mental ability requirements; other approaches to job design related…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Competence, Interdisciplinary Approach, Job Development
Mandon, Nicole; Sulzer, Emmanuel – Training & Employment, 1998
Human resources management personnel have been encouraged to develop a job analysis approach capable of grasping work situations that are more complex, less defined, and in a state of flux. In France, this perspective has given rise to Emploi Type Etudie dans sa Dynamique (ETED) or "typical job studied in its dynamic," an approach that…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Competence, Foreign Countries
Foyster, John – 1990
Written for the Australian general reader who wants to understand important trends in vocational education and training, this document consists of a description of competency-based training (CBT) and assessment, a short test of readers' CBT understanding, and an annotated bibliography. The introduction states the aims of the document, lists five…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Competence, Competency Based Education, Cost Effectiveness
Kansas State Board of Education, Topeka. – 1992
This document outlines the Kansas plan for making every state citizen a learner and a worker by the year 2000. The goal of the plan is to take new approaches to education and human resources management that emphasize learning, flexibility, and productive participation in work and society throughout life. The plan lists the skills that will be…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Basic Skills, Competence, Competency Based Education