RELIEVE: Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa, 2011
The aim of this study is to analyze and describe the professional profile of trainers working in ... more The aim of this study is to analyze and describe the professional profile of trainers working in continuous training in Spain. For this purpose we have developed a structured questionnaire was applied in person to a sample of 606 instructors nationwide. The questionnaire has provided information on aspects such as the socio-occupational status of instructors, their degree of professionalism, and the importance of professional skills. The information gathered has been analyzed by multivariate methods to determine the dominant professional profiles. The quantitative analysis includes the Categorical of Principal Components Analysis (CATPCA) to analyze the skills and capabilities of the trainer and cluster analysis in two stages to get the profiles. Four dominant profiles have been deduced by the cluster analysis. The occupational variables, professional experience profiles and competences/skills produce the major discrepancies between the four profiles.
El crecimiento imparable de nuevas tecnologías ha modificado sustancialmente la vida cotidiana, s... more El crecimiento imparable de nuevas tecnologías ha modificado sustancialmente la vida cotidiana, social y laboral de las nuevas y no tan nuevas generaciones. Actualmente desde el punto de vista del mundo digital conviven seis generaciones atendiendo a criterios de cómo se relacionan con las actuales tecnologías, cómo comunican, trabajan, compran, usan estas tecnologías y el factor edad incluyendo desde los llamados “veteranos o la generación silenciosa” hasta “lo millennial” y “generaciones z y alfa” los llamados nativos digitales. De allí la emergencia de establecer un marco conceptual de competencias digitales en el mundo laboral incluyente y diversificado por necesidades propias de cada agrupación social, labores ejercidas, amén de otros factores. El factor edad ha creado una brecha digital generacional distinguiendo entre llamados “veteranos o la generación silenciosa” hasta “lo millennial” y “generaciones z y alfa” los llamados nativos digitales. Pero la otra brecha digital aún más acentuada que la generacional se establece entre las poblaciones más vulnerables. No en vano en los últimos años la emergencia de establecer un marco conceptual de competencias digitales en el mundo laboral con connotaciones incluyentes y diversificados es responder a las necesidades propias de cada agrupación social y labores ejercidas, amén de otros factores. El enfoque de la descripción de las competencias digitales desarrollado en el trabajo se basa en una revisión de la literatura e investigación pertinente para definir los instrumentos de marco conceptual y aplicado que sean capaces también de medir y conjugar las competencias con las habilidades que deben de poseer las personas tales cómo se relacionan con ciertos tipos de participación y cómo éstas podrían impactar sobre aspectos específicos del trabajo además de la vida cotidiana, especialmente en los colectivos vulnerables
La creación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) ha supuesto la difusión y la aplicac... more La creación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) ha supuesto la difusión y la aplicación de los nuevos métodos innovadores de enseñanza como es el enfoque de Aprendizaje Centrado en el Estudiante (SCL-Student-Centred-Learning por sus siglas en inglés) que supone una reafirmación importante de la misión y el desafío de la enseñanza en el ámbito de los estudios universitarios. Para analizar su aplicación en diversos ámbitos se desarrolla un estudio cuantitativo con estudiantes de la Facultad de Economía y Empresa (FECEM) de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Mediante una encuesta realizada a una muestra de 253 estudiantes se ha recabado información que ha permitido cuantificar aspectos tales como la percepción de los estudiantes sobre la suficiencia de la información y formación proporcionada, aplicación de métodos de enseñanza-aprendizaje enfocados a las necesidades del estudiante, atención personalizada en la construcción y evaluación de competencias y habilidades, el ambiente ...
The creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has led to the dissemination and applic... more The creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has led to the dissemination and application of new methods innovative teaching approach as Student Centered Learning (Student-Centered-Learning, SCL 1) that is an important reaffirmation of the mission of teaching in the field of the high education. To analyze its application in various fields we develop a quantitative study with the students from the Faculty of Economics and Business (FECEM) of the University of Zaragoza. Through a survey centered on SCL model and directed to a sample of 253 students, is gathered some information that allowed quantifying aspects such as the perception of students about the sufficiency of the information over SCL method, quality of learning provided, application of methods of teaching and learning focused on student needs, personal attention in the construction and evaluation of competencies and skills, and motivation in the classroom environment, adaptation resource assessment competency an...
ABSTRACT Informal learning or training is today considered to be one of the most viable ways for ... more ABSTRACT Informal learning or training is today considered to be one of the most viable ways for companies to have appropriately skilled employees. Actually many companies and organizations increasingly are used social media and web 2 for collective learning through informal learning or work place training. The aim of this research is to analyses the efficiency that different mode of training impartation (classroom, web 2 and traditional workplace training) among other factors, have on firm performance. For this purpose a sample of 935 Spanish is used, selected from a total of 65,000, which participated consecutively in national training plans during three years. A multinomial logit analysis was carried out to obtain empirical evidence. The results have showed that the mayor difference in the impartation mode of training is produced among job categories. However the three modes of training impartation are associated with superior business performance.
The objective of this work is to analyse the relative importance of three groups of competitive a... more The objective of this work is to analyse the relative importance of three groups of competitive advantage factors on firms' results of the Spanish agro-food industry. Competitive advantage factors correspond to three aspects: agro-food firms internal sources called, in this study, Potential Resources (RP); agro-food firms relationships with other firms, which are called Specific Firms Relationships (RE); and, the market and industry characteristics plus the industrial localisation, which are included in the so called Market Structure and Industry Location (EMI). Seven hypotheses have been formulated to asses direct and indirect relationships between RP, RE, EMI and economic Results (R) specifying causality directions between explicative indicators for each competitive factor. The seven hypotheses have been combined in a hypothetical model with structural equations defining firms' competitiveness. A sample of 294 firms has been used and 17 variables related to competitive adv...
The lifelong learning is a crucial element in the modernization of European education and trainin... more The lifelong learning is a crucial element in the modernization of European education and training systems. The most important actors in the development process of the lifelong learning are the trainers, whose professional characteristics need new competences and skills in the current labour market. The main objective of this paper is to establish an importance ranking of the new competences, capabilities and skills that the lifelong learning Spanish trainers must possess nowadays. A wide study of secondary sources has allowed the design of a questionnaire that organizes the trainer-s skills and competences. The e-Delphi method is used for realizing a creative, individual and anonymous evaluation by experts on the importance ranking that presents the criteria, sub-criteria and indicators of the e-Delphi questionnaire. Twenty Spanish experts in the lifelong learning have participated in two rounds of the e- DELPHI method. In the first round, the analysis of the experts- evaluation ha...
The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical evidence about the effects that the management o... more The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical evidence about the effects that the management of continuous training have on employability (or employment stability) in the Spanish labour market. With this purpose a binary logit model with interaction effect is been used. The dependent variable includes two situations of the active workers: continuous and discontinuous employability. To distinguish between them an Employability Index Stability (ESI) was calculated taking into account two factors: time worked and job security. Various aspects of the continuous training and personal workers data are used as independent variables. The data obtained from a survey of a sample of 918 employed have revealed a relationship between the likelihood of continuous employability and continuous training received. The empirical results support the positive and significant relationship between various aspects of the training provided by firms and employability likelihood of the workers, postulate a...
Organization capacity learning is a process referring to the sum total of individual and collecti... more Organization capacity learning is a process referring to the sum total of individual and collective learning through training programs, experience and experimentation, among others. Today, in-business ongoing training is one of the most important strategies for human capital development and it is crucial to sustain and improve workers' knowledge and skills. Many organizations, firms and business are adopting a strategy of continuous learning, encouraging employees to learn new skills continually to be innovative and to try new processes and work in order to achieve a competitive advantage and superior business results. This paper uses the Resource Based View and Capacities (RBV) approach to construct a hypothetical relationships model between training and business results. The test of the model is applied on transversal data. A sample of 266 business of Spanish sector service has been selected. A Structural Equation Model (SEM) is used to estimate the relationship between ongoin...
espanolLa datificacion creciente de la vida contemporanea en combinacion con la inteligencia arti... more espanolLa datificacion creciente de la vida contemporanea en combinacion con la inteligencia artificial supone en la practica la construccion de una nueva realidad que se viene calificando como digital. El presente trabajo explora, a partir del reconocimiento y definicion del nuevo paradigma, las siguientes cuestiones: en primer lugar, la necesidad de catalogar las nuevas competencias y habilidades para profesiones emergentes en la economia, la empresa y la comunicacion; en segundo lugar, el reconocimiento de una oportunidad historica para la necesaria innovacion teorica y metodologica en Ciencias Sociales y en Humanidades y, en tercer lugar, la aplicacion de la inteligencia artificial para la mejora de la calidad en las publicaciones cientificas. Estos tres asuntos resultan ser nucleares a juicio de los autores en la medida en que los tres inciden en la necesaria renovacion en la formacion de las personas que van a tener que gestionar datos de todo tipo que afectan a la los modos d...
RELIEVE: Revista Electrónica de Investigación y Evaluación Educativa, 2011
The aim of this study is to analyze and describe the professional profile of trainers working in ... more The aim of this study is to analyze and describe the professional profile of trainers working in continuous training in Spain. For this purpose we have developed a structured questionnaire was applied in person to a sample of 606 instructors nationwide. The questionnaire has provided information on aspects such as the socio-occupational status of instructors, their degree of professionalism, and the importance of professional skills. The information gathered has been analyzed by multivariate methods to determine the dominant professional profiles. The quantitative analysis includes the Categorical of Principal Components Analysis (CATPCA) to analyze the skills and capabilities of the trainer and cluster analysis in two stages to get the profiles. Four dominant profiles have been deduced by the cluster analysis. The occupational variables, professional experience profiles and competences/skills produce the major discrepancies between the four profiles.
El crecimiento imparable de nuevas tecnologías ha modificado sustancialmente la vida cotidiana, s... more El crecimiento imparable de nuevas tecnologías ha modificado sustancialmente la vida cotidiana, social y laboral de las nuevas y no tan nuevas generaciones. Actualmente desde el punto de vista del mundo digital conviven seis generaciones atendiendo a criterios de cómo se relacionan con las actuales tecnologías, cómo comunican, trabajan, compran, usan estas tecnologías y el factor edad incluyendo desde los llamados “veteranos o la generación silenciosa” hasta “lo millennial” y “generaciones z y alfa” los llamados nativos digitales. De allí la emergencia de establecer un marco conceptual de competencias digitales en el mundo laboral incluyente y diversificado por necesidades propias de cada agrupación social, labores ejercidas, amén de otros factores. El factor edad ha creado una brecha digital generacional distinguiendo entre llamados “veteranos o la generación silenciosa” hasta “lo millennial” y “generaciones z y alfa” los llamados nativos digitales. Pero la otra brecha digital aún más acentuada que la generacional se establece entre las poblaciones más vulnerables. No en vano en los últimos años la emergencia de establecer un marco conceptual de competencias digitales en el mundo laboral con connotaciones incluyentes y diversificados es responder a las necesidades propias de cada agrupación social y labores ejercidas, amén de otros factores. El enfoque de la descripción de las competencias digitales desarrollado en el trabajo se basa en una revisión de la literatura e investigación pertinente para definir los instrumentos de marco conceptual y aplicado que sean capaces también de medir y conjugar las competencias con las habilidades que deben de poseer las personas tales cómo se relacionan con ciertos tipos de participación y cómo éstas podrían impactar sobre aspectos específicos del trabajo además de la vida cotidiana, especialmente en los colectivos vulnerables
La creación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) ha supuesto la difusión y la aplicac... more La creación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES) ha supuesto la difusión y la aplicación de los nuevos métodos innovadores de enseñanza como es el enfoque de Aprendizaje Centrado en el Estudiante (SCL-Student-Centred-Learning por sus siglas en inglés) que supone una reafirmación importante de la misión y el desafío de la enseñanza en el ámbito de los estudios universitarios. Para analizar su aplicación en diversos ámbitos se desarrolla un estudio cuantitativo con estudiantes de la Facultad de Economía y Empresa (FECEM) de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Mediante una encuesta realizada a una muestra de 253 estudiantes se ha recabado información que ha permitido cuantificar aspectos tales como la percepción de los estudiantes sobre la suficiencia de la información y formación proporcionada, aplicación de métodos de enseñanza-aprendizaje enfocados a las necesidades del estudiante, atención personalizada en la construcción y evaluación de competencias y habilidades, el ambiente ...
The creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has led to the dissemination and applic... more The creation of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has led to the dissemination and application of new methods innovative teaching approach as Student Centered Learning (Student-Centered-Learning, SCL 1) that is an important reaffirmation of the mission of teaching in the field of the high education. To analyze its application in various fields we develop a quantitative study with the students from the Faculty of Economics and Business (FECEM) of the University of Zaragoza. Through a survey centered on SCL model and directed to a sample of 253 students, is gathered some information that allowed quantifying aspects such as the perception of students about the sufficiency of the information over SCL method, quality of learning provided, application of methods of teaching and learning focused on student needs, personal attention in the construction and evaluation of competencies and skills, and motivation in the classroom environment, adaptation resource assessment competency an...
ABSTRACT Informal learning or training is today considered to be one of the most viable ways for ... more ABSTRACT Informal learning or training is today considered to be one of the most viable ways for companies to have appropriately skilled employees. Actually many companies and organizations increasingly are used social media and web 2 for collective learning through informal learning or work place training. The aim of this research is to analyses the efficiency that different mode of training impartation (classroom, web 2 and traditional workplace training) among other factors, have on firm performance. For this purpose a sample of 935 Spanish is used, selected from a total of 65,000, which participated consecutively in national training plans during three years. A multinomial logit analysis was carried out to obtain empirical evidence. The results have showed that the mayor difference in the impartation mode of training is produced among job categories. However the three modes of training impartation are associated with superior business performance.
The objective of this work is to analyse the relative importance of three groups of competitive a... more The objective of this work is to analyse the relative importance of three groups of competitive advantage factors on firms' results of the Spanish agro-food industry. Competitive advantage factors correspond to three aspects: agro-food firms internal sources called, in this study, Potential Resources (RP); agro-food firms relationships with other firms, which are called Specific Firms Relationships (RE); and, the market and industry characteristics plus the industrial localisation, which are included in the so called Market Structure and Industry Location (EMI). Seven hypotheses have been formulated to asses direct and indirect relationships between RP, RE, EMI and economic Results (R) specifying causality directions between explicative indicators for each competitive factor. The seven hypotheses have been combined in a hypothetical model with structural equations defining firms' competitiveness. A sample of 294 firms has been used and 17 variables related to competitive adv...
The lifelong learning is a crucial element in the modernization of European education and trainin... more The lifelong learning is a crucial element in the modernization of European education and training systems. The most important actors in the development process of the lifelong learning are the trainers, whose professional characteristics need new competences and skills in the current labour market. The main objective of this paper is to establish an importance ranking of the new competences, capabilities and skills that the lifelong learning Spanish trainers must possess nowadays. A wide study of secondary sources has allowed the design of a questionnaire that organizes the trainer-s skills and competences. The e-Delphi method is used for realizing a creative, individual and anonymous evaluation by experts on the importance ranking that presents the criteria, sub-criteria and indicators of the e-Delphi questionnaire. Twenty Spanish experts in the lifelong learning have participated in two rounds of the e- DELPHI method. In the first round, the analysis of the experts- evaluation ha...
The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical evidence about the effects that the management o... more The aim of this paper is to provide an empirical evidence about the effects that the management of continuous training have on employability (or employment stability) in the Spanish labour market. With this purpose a binary logit model with interaction effect is been used. The dependent variable includes two situations of the active workers: continuous and discontinuous employability. To distinguish between them an Employability Index Stability (ESI) was calculated taking into account two factors: time worked and job security. Various aspects of the continuous training and personal workers data are used as independent variables. The data obtained from a survey of a sample of 918 employed have revealed a relationship between the likelihood of continuous employability and continuous training received. The empirical results support the positive and significant relationship between various aspects of the training provided by firms and employability likelihood of the workers, postulate a...
Organization capacity learning is a process referring to the sum total of individual and collecti... more Organization capacity learning is a process referring to the sum total of individual and collective learning through training programs, experience and experimentation, among others. Today, in-business ongoing training is one of the most important strategies for human capital development and it is crucial to sustain and improve workers' knowledge and skills. Many organizations, firms and business are adopting a strategy of continuous learning, encouraging employees to learn new skills continually to be innovative and to try new processes and work in order to achieve a competitive advantage and superior business results. This paper uses the Resource Based View and Capacities (RBV) approach to construct a hypothetical relationships model between training and business results. The test of the model is applied on transversal data. A sample of 266 business of Spanish sector service has been selected. A Structural Equation Model (SEM) is used to estimate the relationship between ongoin...
espanolLa datificacion creciente de la vida contemporanea en combinacion con la inteligencia arti... more espanolLa datificacion creciente de la vida contemporanea en combinacion con la inteligencia artificial supone en la practica la construccion de una nueva realidad que se viene calificando como digital. El presente trabajo explora, a partir del reconocimiento y definicion del nuevo paradigma, las siguientes cuestiones: en primer lugar, la necesidad de catalogar las nuevas competencias y habilidades para profesiones emergentes en la economia, la empresa y la comunicacion; en segundo lugar, el reconocimiento de una oportunidad historica para la necesaria innovacion teorica y metodologica en Ciencias Sociales y en Humanidades y, en tercer lugar, la aplicacion de la inteligencia artificial para la mejora de la calidad en las publicaciones cientificas. Estos tres asuntos resultan ser nucleares a juicio de los autores en la medida en que los tres inciden en la necesaria renovacion en la formacion de las personas que van a tener que gestionar datos de todo tipo que afectan a la los modos d...
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