... American, British and Russian job search engines. Findings It is demonstrated that skills composition required in biotechnology does not vary significantly among selected countries as the market becomes increasingly globalized in terms of not only technology used but also personnel hired. Companies...

... at: j.m.g.heerkens@utwente.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Assessment Decision making Skills Organizations This article deals with a specific aspect of decision‐making; the assessment of the importance of attributes (the characteristics that describe the options to be chosen from...

... a tool that will help expatriates understand their roles according to the technical skills and managerial capabilities of local employees. Originality/value The paper offers practical advice for diagnosing expatriate roles and their training prior to assignment to a subsidiary. The main source...

...A. Adcroft; S. Kothari; R.D. Handscombe Purpose In this paper universities are considered to be central to a knowledge‐driven economy. UK employers value generic skills more highly in employees where disciplinary‐based understanding is assumed to be on a par. Enterprise education should, therefore...

...Erwin Rausch; Veronica Burke; David Collins Purpose This paper aims to discuss a framework for analysing the learning and transfer of conflict handling skills via leadership development programmes. The framework links the role of knowledge in skill acquisition to the process of learning transfer...

...Dean Elmuti The topic whether management skills are communicable has been the topic of scholars' debates and broad examination through literature in the last decades. However, there is less literature focusing on solutions for successful management education. This paper, not only takes up...

...William Keogh; Laura Galloway Business skills, particularly in the areas of science, engineering and technology (SET) and small firm development are becoming increasingly important. The vocational skills student learns can be augmented by an understanding of how business operates as well...

... interviews with senior managers and management consultants from 32 organisations. A rigorous qualitative analysis of the observed experiences, strategies and responses to ethical issues and problems resulted in categorisation of skills associated with: judgement, integrity, courage and humanity...

... the factors and processes that contribute to ideas breaking through. Drawing on illustrative insights from the Darwinian revolution, and the literature, it suggests that organisations can make substantially better use of their existing human skills and improve performance through the management of the passage...

... learning Skills All men by nature desire knowledge. Aristotle (384‐322 BC), Greek philosopher. Metaphysics, Book 1, Chapter 1. Whereas at one time the decisive factor of production was the land, and later capital … today the decisive factor is increasingly man himself, that is, his...

... and investigates these issues by examining the level of skills present amongst a group of spreadsheet users and the vehicles used in acquiring them. Argues that, in a general business environment, a lack of training in this area is, in many cases, confining the spreadsheet to little more than an electronic filing...

...Carole Brooke Towards the end of the 1980s, industry reported an IT “skills crisis”. Academics and practitioners responded by focusing on the extent and nature of the apparent shortfall and identified the most critical skills and roles for the following decade. Ironically, before the next decade...

... understanding of national and international management practice. Such knowledge can be applied to co‐operative international ventures; to entry into new countries and cultures; to human resource development in those countries; and to the effective development of skills and competences appropriate...

... Skills Strategic management Strategy Technology Business strategies are formulated to determine the way in which organizations can move from their current competitive position to a new stronger one. This can only be achieved by improving an organization′s competitiveness. A universal and exact...

... Productivity Board has directed its effort towards a nationwide use of quality circle programmes. Support comes from the highest levels of the government hierarchy. Quality circles have been claimed to be effective in improving quality of products, increasing productivity, improving skills level, motivating...

... implementation of international strategies are analysed. This means “managing locally”. The article concludes by considering some of the skills and personal traits of the international manager. These may have to be developed if enterprise management is to achieve the proper local implementation of its global...