African Journal of
Business Management

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Bus. Manage.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1993-8233
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJBM
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 4188

Full Length Research Paper

The creation of pharmacists’ core competence assessment scale

Ting-Chen Hu and Chia-Ching Lin*
  1Health Business Management Department, Hungkuang University, Taiwan. 2Department of Senior Citizen Welfare and Business, Hungkuang University, Taiwan.
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 02 February 2011
  •  Published: 30 June 2011

Abstract

 

With the trend towards in the creation of people’s income and consumers’ awareness of their rights as, pharmacists’ service attitude and competence become one of the reasons that lead people to pharmacies to take medicine. The study aims at discussing pharmacists’ competence and working out pharmacists’ core competence assessment scale. The investigation data are analyzed by the analysis of importance before it is being formally questioned. After the data were questioned, they were analyzed by a great deal of statistics methods such as sample analysis, reliability analysis, discrimination analysis, validity analysis, etc. The result of the study is to create pharmacists’ core competence assessment scale preliminarily.

 

Key words: pharmacies, pharmacists, competence.