Principles of Best Practices for Clinical Supervisor Training Programs: L. Dianne Borders

SUMMARY Recent corporate scandals have raised concerns about the quality and value of the audit profession and have generated demands for improving auditors' evaluation of management integrity. The literature lacks evidence regarding methods of assessing management integrity, while audit standards provide little if any guidance on this matter. This raises questions about how external auditors can comply with the audit standards in this area and what best practices and deficiencies exist in the assessment of management integrity. This study examines methods of assessing management integrity by providing insights from the Big 4 auditors in Egypt. The findings of this study will benefit audit firms in their professional audit training programs, as well as auditors conducting fraud risk assessments.

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Mutual Benefit: How Vocational Training Programs Utilize Employer Engagement and Refugee Strengths to Facilitate Integration

Social Sciences ◽

10.3390/socsci8050145 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (5) ◽

pp. 145

Author(s):

Audrey Lumley-Sapanski ◽

Nancy Joyce Callahan

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Training Program ◽

Vocational Training ◽

Training Programs ◽

Mutual Benefit ◽

Bhutanese Refugees ◽

Employer Engagement ◽

Origin Group ◽

Positive Indicators ◽

Stable Employment

Successful integration of newly arriving refugees requires the engagement of the receiving community and active facilitation of integration through provision of employment, access to housing, and protection of basic rights. Understanding how local entities effectively facilitate integration is important for policymakers and scholars interested in identifying best practices and replicating outcomes. This study examines the integration outcomes of refugees who participated in a vocational hospitality training program in Chicago, Illinois between 2008 and 2012. In particular, we explore the integration experiences—using employment, housing, and homeownership—of Bhutanese origin refugees who represented the largest country of origin group in the hospitality course. We find that the Bhutanese refugees who participated in the course had high rates of homeownership, stable employment, higher wages and experienced socioeconomic upward mobility—positive indicators of integration. In our analysis, we identify three reasons the program is successful in facilitating integration: a practice of selective enrollment, active employer engagement, and informed industry selection. Importantly, our findings suggest a positive benefit for employers in addition to refugee employees.

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Adoption of best practices for the environmental management of road salt in Ontario

Water Quality Research Journal ◽

10.2166/wqrjc.2011.105 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 46 (2) ◽

pp. 174-182 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

M. Stone ◽

J. Marsalek

Keyword(s):

Environmental Management ◽

Best Practices ◽

Management Practices ◽

Training Programs ◽

Learning Goals ◽

Service Levels ◽

Seasonal Workers ◽

Code Of Practice ◽

Road Salts ◽

Management Plans

There are increasing concerns regarding the adverse environmental impacts of chloride from road salts. A web-based survey was conducted to determine how the Code of Practice for the environmental management of road salts has influenced the adoption of best practices in Ontario, Canada. The majority of large Ontario municipalities have salt management plans that adequately address safety and the environment. Most municipalities train a high percentage of permanent staff but only half of seasonal workers and 21% of private contractors are trained. Most training programs cover key learning goals defined by the Code of Practice. There is little improvement in the management of salt-vulnerable areas. Many existing snow disposal sites are poorly designed and do not manage snowmelt quality. The Code has strongly contributed to the adoption and improvement of salt management practices in Ontario by helping to standardize practices and advance the rate of implementation of best practices. Barriers to further implementation of the Code include understanding the Code, institutional will, liability, limited technical/financial resources and public expectation of high service levels. Further benefits can be achieved by aggressively promoting the Code and improving education and training programs for the public, private contractors and staff of road authorities.

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ENHANCEMENT OF ENGINEERING SOFT SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: EU COUNTRIES EXPERIENCE

Вестник Костромского государственного университета им Н А Некрасова ◽

10.34216/2073-1426-2020-26-2-238-243 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 238-243

Author(s):

Victoria V. Dobrova ◽

Polina G. Labzina

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Cognitive Abilities ◽

Training Programs ◽

Soft Skills ◽

Skills Development ◽

Global Changes ◽

Eu Countries ◽

Academic Knowledge ◽

Russian Universities

Recently, the quality of graduates and their ability to meet the needs of employers became widely discussed worldwide. Despite the enormous importance of academic knowledge and cognitive abilities, today employment opportunities are more determined on the basis of the concept of soft skills. In Russia, this problem is still unsolved: the training programs of most universities are based on traditional methods with little or no time devoted to the soft skills development. In Europe, this situation has been relevant for several decades due to the global changes in the economy and, accordingly, an acute shortage of jobs. Therefore, the issues of employment and the quality of competencies and skills of graduates have already been studied a lot. The vast experience of Europe can be borrowed by Russian universities, which are just beginning to move towards the development of soft skills and the awareness of the need for their development within the framework of university disciplines. The article describes terminological variations, analyzes different methods and approaches to training and assessing soft skills, as well as presents the best practices of EU countries on teaching soft skills.

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SAWIT—Security Awareness Improvement Tool in the Workplace

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app10093065 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 3065

Author(s):

Ana Kovačević ◽

Sonja D. Radenković

Keyword(s):

Artificial Intelligence ◽

Collaborative Learning ◽

Best Practices ◽

Cyber Security ◽

Training Programs ◽

Transformation Model ◽

Security Awareness ◽

Web Tool ◽

Knowledge Transformation ◽

Previous Training

Cyberattacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated and severe, and an organization’s protection depends on its weakest member. Although users are aware of the risks in cyberspace, most of them do not follow best practices, and there is a need for permanent structured training. The majority of previous training programs concentrated on technically educated users, but the organization is only as secure as the most vulnerable link in it. The paper presents SAWIT, a new Web tool, created with the goal of improving security awareness among employees. It is an innovative artificial intelligence framework aimed at improving the cyber security knowledge of employees by using collaborative learning and assessment within the specified knowledge transformation model.

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Learning the Tricks of the Trade: The Need for Specialty-Specific Supervisor Training Programs in Competency-Based Medical Education

Academic Psychiatry ◽

10.1007/s40596-016-0598-8 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 430-433 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bryce J. M. Bogie ◽

Sheila Harms ◽

Karen Saperson ◽

Meghan M. McConnell

Keyword(s):

Medical Education ◽

Training Programs ◽

Supervisor Training ◽

Competency Based Medical Education ◽

Competency Based

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The Disaster Approach: Countering Learner Apprehension in Role-Play

Management Teaching Review ◽

10.1177/2379298117728706 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 172-180

Author(s):

Paul Donovan ◽

John Townsend

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Organizational Context ◽

Training Programs ◽

Skill Development ◽

Role Play ◽

The Other ◽

Corrected Version ◽

Job Role ◽

The Ideal

Training programs enhance the skills of participants. Role-play, one method used for such skill development, is learning through performing a set of behaviors, in accordance with predetermined expectations of a job role in an organizational context. Some learners find role-play daunting, even traumatic. To counter this experience, this article shows an innovative role-play format where, in advance of the program, tutors design and create a “disaster” video—an encounter where almost everything goes awry. In class, the video is shown and the group is divided into two teams: and one team designs and demonstrates a “corrected” version of the encounter. The second team composes a set of best practices on the ideal way to conduct such an encounter. The role-play event is performed in plenary by the “Demonstration” team, and the “Best Practices” team applies their guidelines to the other team’s performance. Instructions on how to use the exercise are given.

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The Power of Cross-Disciplinary Teams for Developing First Responder Training in TBI

Journal of Professional Continuing and Online Education ◽

10.18741/p9h59g ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Jo L. Shackelford ◽

Amy Cappiccie

Keyword(s):

Traumatic Brain Injury ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Best Practices ◽

Training Programs ◽

First Responders ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Training Curriculum ◽

First Responder

Misunderstanding of the symptoms of traumatic brain injury (TBI) often leaves first responders ill-equipped to handle encounters involving subjects with brain injury. This paper details a cross-disciplinary project to develop and disseminate a training curriculum designed to increase first responders’ knowledge of and skills with TBI survivors. The article aims to assist other professionals in understanding the process of working within a cross-disciplinary team to develop and disseminate a training curriculum. Lessons learned based on the development of such a curriculum for first responders working with persons with TBI will be valuable to training coordinators and serve as best practices for implementing similar training programs for specialized learner groups.

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