THE IMPACT OF COMPETENCES ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS TO FIRM PERFORMANCE - Study on Project Management e-Assessment

Maria-Iuliana Dascalu, Camelia Delcea, Dragos Palaghita, Bogdan Vintila

2010

Abstract

Current paper studies the relationship between the use of e-assessment in the field of project management and firms’ performance. For this purpose, a case study was especially designed to explore whether the extensive use of an e-assessment application influences the financial and non-financial indicators of firms’ performance. The participants in the study were the users of the e-assessment application, employees working in Romanian firms, from IT, education and consulting business sector. The main findings of the study were the positive correlation between the considered performance indicators and companies’ growth. The study is presented in the framework of learning at work and highlights the importance of using information systems in enterprise environments, to develop professional competences and, thus, to achieve business excellence.

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Dascalu M., Delcea C., Palaghita D. and Vintila B. (2010). THE IMPACT OF COMPETENCES ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS TO FIRM PERFORMANCE - Study on Project Management e-Assessment . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8425-07-2, pages 59-64. DOI: 10.5220/0002864200590064


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis10,
author={Maria-Iuliana Dascalu and Camelia Delcea and Dragos Palaghita and Bogdan Vintila},
title={THE IMPACT OF COMPETENCES ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS TO FIRM PERFORMANCE - Study on Project Management e-Assessment},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,},
year={2010},
pages={59-64},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002864200590064},
isbn={978-989-8425-07-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 4: ICEIS,
TI - THE IMPACT OF COMPETENCES ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS TO FIRM PERFORMANCE - Study on Project Management e-Assessment
SN - 978-989-8425-07-2
AU - Dascalu M.
AU - Delcea C.
AU - Palaghita D.
AU - Vintila B.
PY - 2010
SP - 59
EP - 64
DO - 10.5220/0002864200590064