... and relational endeavour, rather than using competences to create identikit heroes, faculty need to draw less on the espoused certainties of “expert” power and adapt their teaching style and language. Design/methodology/approach This case study of an ongoing Masters programme in health leadership, draws...

...Gianpaolo Abatecola; Vincenzo Uli Purpose What entrepreneurial competences can increase the start-ups’ infant survival chances? How can the liability of newness be successfully handled? Positioned in this research stream, which, especially over recent years, has been particularly lively also...

...Gerrit Meyer; Bianca Brünig; Peter Nyhuis Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present competences that are highly relevant for manufacturing today and tomorrow. Following a discussion on the concept of “competence”, a variety of competences are presented and classified into the four facets...

...Guangrong Dai; King Yii Tang; Kenneth P. De Meuse Purpose This paper aims to test the pipeline model of leadership development by investigating how the competency profile change across position levels. Design/methodology/approach The skill and importance ratings in leadership competencies were...

... factors for competitiveness of the national agencies. Table III provides the attributes of the top managers of the national agencies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Companies Competences Professional services Competitive strategy The growth of professional business...

... maximizing available talent. Practical implications To avoid these traps, the business community must recognize that women and men have different leadership competencies, use those differences to their advantage, and learn how to effectively manage the variety of perceptions of women as leaders...

... participants develop emotional and social competence. Design/methodology/approach The study involved 162 managers from nine different companies in a random assignment control group design. There were nine different groups with nine managers in each group. Each group was required to follow the identical...

... in post‐bureaucratic work environments and challenges the behaviourist competencies approach to developing managers. The refurbished bureaucracy is an original combination of old types in a dynamic perceived as new, leaving a management whose identity was formed in the old ways of doing and being...

...Alessandro Margherita; Giustina Secundo Purpose This paper aims to present a framework supporting a new approach to designing curricula for the development of management competencies. Design/methodology/approach The review of contributions in the strategic management and management development...

...Richard Boyatzis; Arnaldo Camuffo; Fabrizio Gerli; Silvia Borgo; Tatiana Somià Purpose This study aims to explore how the amount and the nature of learning accrued during an MBA – measured in terms of competency development – impact on career advancement and compensation. Design/methodology...

...Richard Boyatzis; Laura Guillén Ramo; Willem E. Saris; Richard E. Boyatzis Purpose The objective of this paper is to address the predictive validity of the behavioral approach of EI by Boyatzis and Goleman. There are two research questions guiding this study: emotional and social competencies...

...Richard Boyatzis; Geoff Ryan; Robert J. Emmerling; Lyle M. Spencer Purpose The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, to add to the empirical literature related to the validity and practical utility of emotional, social, and cognitive competencies in the workplace. Second, using data from two...

...Richard Boyatzis; Richard E. Boyatzis; Franco Ratti Purpose The purpose of this study is to report data showing competencies that distinguish effective managers and leaders in a large Italian company and in Italian cooperatives. Design/methodology/approach The approach takes the form...

...Tawit Sudsakorn; Fredric William Swierczek Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the management competencies required by a Master of Business Administration (MBA) graduate to succeed as a global business manager in an increasingly competitive business environment in Asia. Design...

...Vathsala Wickramasinghe; Nimali De Zoyza Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether there is a set of management competencies that should be possessed by managers irrespective of their areas of functional specialization using quantitative methodology. Design/methodology...

...Shi‐Rui Song; Andrew Gale Purpose The purpose of the research is to investigate project managers' work values and their relationship with project managers' competence. Design/methodology/approach In this research, the authors conducted semi‐structured interviews using repertory grid techniques...

...Richard Boyatzis; Richard E. Boyatzis Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that development of competencies needed to be effective managers and leaders requires program design and teaching methods focused on learning. This is the introductory essay to this special issue of JMD...

...Richard Boyatzis; Richard E. Boyatzis; Argun Saatcioglu Purpose Development of competencies needed to be effective managers and leaders requires program design and teaching methods focused on learning. The paper presents an update and a view of 20 years of attempting to develop these competencies...

... the critical incident interview, the learning skills profile, and the life sphere interview. Correlations were run testing the hypotheses: as the number of life spheres, relationships, or activities increases, so will the demonstration of the targeted competencies; and if the participant is able to work...

...Richard Boyatzis; David C. Leonard Purpose The purpose of this research is to empirically examine the efficacy of setting multiple goals targeting complex competencies with a variety of time horizons pursued across a number of years. Most research conducted in the areas of goal setting examines...