Transversal competences constitute a set of the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for various positions and in different professions. Such competences include: entrepreneurship, teamwork, creativity, and communicativeness; they are increasingly listed by employers in different countries as the key requirements in the labor market. The article presents the model of accelerating the process of acquiring transversal competences, developed based on the analysis of data collected in four countries of the European Union: Poland, Finland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. In the analysis, multivariate additive regression spline method was used, along with artificial neural networks, in order to create the best model describing the influence of different variables on the acceleration of acquiring transversal competences. Herewith, we demonstrated that by accelerating the acquisition of the transversal competence of entrepreneurship is influenced by the following factors: rank of the training method in the developed matrix, student numbers and the weighted average of the pace of acceleration regarding the acquisition of the remaining transversal competences, i.e., teamwork, communicativeness and creativity by the given student. The results validate our new method of the acceleration of acquiring transversal competences by students. Students may be from various higher education institutions in different countries. Developed results may be used in the course of education within the framework of the already planned vocational courses and for developing the skills required by employers for various positions and in different professions.
The article presents concept of the basics of qualitology and grey incidence clustering model application in the recognition and assessment of marketing information quality. In the first part of the paper, the concept of qualitative (qualitological) modelling of marketing information quality is explained. The issues of quality, marketing information quality and the evaluated marketing information quality are presented. Several steps are specified to recognize and asses the marketing information quality. In the presented concept, an innovative solution is an integration of the fundamental qualitative principles, operations and methods with the grey incidence clustering model. The developed concept facilitates the recognition of the marketing information quality in a systematic (holistic) manner, considering the state of features belonging to marketing information and their structure. The results presented constitute the basis for further research on quality management of the company's marketing information. The developed methodological solution was applied in a chosen industrial company. In the last part of the paper, directions for further research in the field of marketing information quality management in industrial companies are specified.
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