... Licensed re-use rights only Competences Learning Employability Age Innovative work behaviour Small- and medium-sized enterprises Successful innovation is crucial in economic development (Autio et al., 2014) and it is generally acknowledged as a key factor in the competitiveness...

...Giovanna Esposito; Maria Francesca Freda; Valentina Bosco Purpose – This study aims to examine the self-perceived competencies of 231 Italian students enrolled in a psychological degree program and involved in a practicum. It analyzes the subjective perception of the competences that students...

...Thomas N. Garavan; Ronan Carbery; Andrew Rock; Lena Siikaniemi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the research and literature through the development of the theme of competence foresight. In addition, the aim is to construct information pathways for the foresight mechanism...

...: employability, knowledge, and competence. Findings Employability is central to employee performance and organisational success. Individual employability includes general meta‐competence and context‐bound competence that is related to a specific profession and organisation. The concept of employability...

... (Hodgkinson et al., 2009 ; Lieberman, 2000 ; Stanovich and West, 2000), and whilst there is no consensual definition of intuition, most scholars' views converge on the following attributes: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Coaching Competences Intuition Human resource...

... groups in the workforce. This presents a number of conceptual and practical challenges for those with an interest in managing and developing people. Equal opportunities Training Human resource development Competences The concepts of talent management (TM) and managing diversity have much...

...Ciara Nolan; Edel Conway; Tara Farrell; Kathy Monks Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate hotel industry employers' expectations of, and satisfaction with, graduate competencies in comparison with graduate perceptions of what is required for their roles and their satisfaction...

...Mina Beigi; Melika Shirmohammadi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of developing emotional intelligence (EI) as conceptualized in Boyatzis et al.'s competency model. Design/methodology/approach Designing a context‐based EI training program, the study...

...Johathan Winterton; Michaela Brockmann; Linda Clarke; Christopher Winch Purpose Though the notion of competence is common terminology in European VET policy at national and supra‐national level, understandings vary widely, both across countries and within. The particular conceptions of competence...

...Johathan Winterton; Lindsay Mitchell; George Boak Purpose The purpose of this article is to review the use of competence frameworks in the UK healthcare sector and to explore characteristics of the sector that may influence the success of projects to develop new frameworks. Design/methodology...

...Johathan Winterton; Jörg Markowitsch; Claudia Plaimauer Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential of already existing skills and competence ontologies to benefit European transparency tools and especially the implementation of the European Qualification Framework...

...Johathan Winterton; Françoise Le Deist Purpose The purpose of this article is to analyse the conceptual approaches to competence and practice in competence management in France. Design/methodology/approach Extensive literature review, discussion with academic experts in the French competence...

...Johathan Winterton; Jonathan Winterton Purpose The purpose of this article is to explore diversity in competence models across Europe and consider the extent to which there is sufficient common ground for a common European approach to underpin the European Qualifications Framework. Design...

...Johathan Winterton; Rimantas Laužackas; Vidmantas Tūtlys; Irma Spūdytė Purpose This paper aims to explore the development of the concept of competence in Lithuania beginning from the period of transition from the Soviet planned economy and post‐totalitarian regime to the market economy...

...Julie Fowlie; Matthew Wood Purpose The purpose of this article is to analyse MBA students' actual experiences of both good and bad leadership and the resulting emotional responses; to determine which emotionally intelligent competencies, if any, have greater importance in times of change...

...Lena Siikaniemi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find a model for the individual employee, the employer, the supervisors and the personnel at HR to manage organizational and individual changes. The objective of the model is to manage the changes in parallel with the competence (HRD...

...June Xuejun Qiao; Wei Wang Purpose This study aims to identify managerial competencies required for successful middle managers in China. Design/methodology/approach First a questionnaire survey was distributed among MBA and EMBA students at a major university in China, and then two case...

...Philipp Grollmann; Georg Spottl; Philipp Grollmann Purpose The paper's aim is to present a critical review of the current European process of co‐operation in VET with a special view to the European Qualification Framework and its competence orientation. Design/methodology/approach The approach...

... with the member States, are working on it and several pilot projects have been initiated within the Leonardo da Vinci Programme of the European Commission. The problem of the transfer as well as a convincing transparency of vocational competences has yet been developed. The aim is to discuss this in the article...

... of vocational education and training. Design/methodology/approach A comparison is drawn between the competence development the four different VET systems in France, Germany, Spain, and the UK initiated by the identical qualification demands of the sector of aircraft industry (AIRBUS plants in France...