Essential Professional and Expert Human Resources Needs

Qualified human resources are a critical and essential factor in planning a smart city, implementing it, and in providing capabilities for forward thinking and enhancing the ongoing operation and performance. This chapter examines the human resources development needed for smart cities transformation, management, and organizational need for projects and practices required. A clear distinction is introduced between the institutional role, operations role, and development roles. With emphasis on technology skills and the needed technical know-how, an overview of soft skills and most demanded tasks for smart cities are presented. With clear definition and modeling human resource management for smart cities, this chapter provides a pragmatic approach to human resource planning and management for the digital transformation of smart cities.

An Exploratory Study of the Digital Competences of Italian Accountants: Some Preliminary Results

Purpose - This paper examines the current digital competences of Italian accountants and to what extent these competences are evident in their competence profiles. Methodology - In this study, 6,442 profiles of accountants, extracted from the professional social network LinkedIn, were analysed using the technique for the analysis of textual data. Findings - The results of the study reveal that the male users expose more often in their professional profiles the possession of information technology skills than female accountants. Moreover, the results highlight a limited development of data analytics skills, which are reported in only 13% of the LinkedIn profiles analysed. Furthermore, the findings also show that there is a gap between the digital competences held by accountants who belong to different geographical areas. The accountants living in northern Italy, in fact, report more digital competences in their LinkedIn profiles than those living in central and southern Italy. Originality - This study stimulates the ongoing debate on the competence’s changes of the accountants in the digital technology era.

The Accountancy Fresh Graduates of Wesleyan University – Philippines in the Light of the Skills Expectations of Industry Partners

Employers consider a graduate's achievements in the relevant discipline to be required but not sufficient for them to be hired. It is essential that we fully understand what future employers will accept and needed. In the past, a graduate degree would ensure the welfare of a student's future. Today, something more different. A mere college diploma is inadequate for an individual to secure a promising future. This study aims to determine the fresh graduates' professional accounting skills and technology skills needed by the company and demonstrated by the accounting graduates. Results of study analysis comprised twenty (20) companies showed that computing techniques, written communication, reporting skills, measurement skills, professionalism, and oral communication are what employers seek. Moreover, companies observed that accounting graduates are more knowledgeable in reporting, research, measurement, finance, strategic and critical thinking skills, and problem-solving skills. Regarding technology skills, companies seek employees knowledgeable in spreadsheet packages, accounting packages (SAP, Pastel, QuickBooks), word processing packages, communication software (Skype, Outlook, Slack), electronic commerce, and the worldwide web. However, accounting graduates possess word processing packages, communication software (skype, outlook, slack), world wide web, electronic commerce, and windows. It was revealed that students must be well-versed in Microsoft Office Applications, as this was the employers' primary skills needed both professional accounting skills and technology skills. These results provide the academicians with useful information. Building fundamentals, becoming competitive and continual development of abilities in accounting needs a tough knowledge foundation. Specializing in a specific area of accounting, such as financial reporting, taxation, or auditing, helps an individual become a highly sought-after professional. In a more distinct framework and profound lens, this study will convey collaborations on how Nueva Ecija industries search to hire new accounting professionals. In detail, the foregoing survey purposes were addressed: to determine the required skills the employers seek from accounting graduates, to identify the more important accountancy graduates' skills, to examine if do companies treat the professional accounting skills similar to technological skills, and to discover if there were any difference on the requirements of employers and the skills demonstrated by accounting graduates.

STRIVERS, MAINTAINERS, ACHIEVERS: NETWORKED TRAJECTORIES OF OLDER ADULTS LEARNING TO USE TECHNOLOGY DURING A PANDEMIC

While research has explored digital divides in older adults’ technology skills and uses and in their communication uptake during the pandemic, we lack an understanding of the on-the-ground experiences and trajectories of older adults seeking to adopt digital technologies to maintains social connection during the COVID-19 pandemic. What balance of independence and interdependence do older adults seek and experience as they attempt to take up new devices and applications, such as tablets and video chat, during a period of physical distancing? I introduce “strivers,” “achievers,” and “maintainers” to describe different experiences of in(ter)dependence that emerged at the intersection of technology use and physical distancing for participants during and after the technology training program. Independence is reflected among those who were able to translate provided technology resources into an expanded social presence during the pandemic. Interdependence relates to those who became even more dependent on others, with the addition of needed technology support, while aspiring to replace offline relationships with those promised through digital technologies. Simultaneously, by declaring oneself “not lonely despite being alone,” others declared independence despite failing to realize the promise of digital technology as a stand-in for in-person connection. Research on older adults and digital technology can benefit from examining not only the possession of digital skills and support for technology use, but also the meanings that older adults bring to their experiences of inclusion and exclusion as they adapt to digital technologies while aging – and sheltering – in place.

Learning management emphasizing desirable characteristics of students in Buddhist university

This paper aims to study the learning management emphasizing desirable characteristics (LMDC) of students in Buddhist university in Thailand based on documentary research methodology. The finding reveals that LMDC in Buddhist University is carried out according to the qualifications-framework including 1) ethical and moral development, 2) knowledge, 3) cognitive skills, 4) interpersonal skills and responsibility, 5) numerical analysis skills, communication and information technology skills, and 6) learning management science methodology (added in teaching profession curriculum) by integrating with digital competency and 9 characteristics.

Pedagogical Practices of Accounting Departments Addressing AACSB Technology Requirements

Technology skills are essential for accounting professionals and should be equally important in the accounting curricula. Educational institutions measure technology-related curricular innovations in part through compliance with AACSB Standard A5. We investigate how institutions are preparing for accreditation review as it relates to technology in accounting curriculum by surveying AIS educators from 85 universities and examining efforts to meet the AACSB Standard A5 accreditation requirements. Quantitative results suggest that most institutions feel they are prepared but also contain some contradictory information that, when combined with qualitative feedback, raises questions about the degree of progress in technology integration. Common issues include a widespread lack of increased faculty training, an over-reliance on AIS classes to meet accreditation standards, and the inclusion of basic spreadsheet and visualization skills as "technology" or "data analytics." We provide a suggested pathway to improve accounting pedagogy as it relates to technology through phased curricular changes and issue a call for administrators to support increased accounting faculty technology training.