...Pia Heilmann; Jouni Heilmann Purpose The purpose of this paper is to find out and understand the role of competence management in Finnish forest company maintenance. The key questions of this paper are: what is the required maintenance competence and how can this competence be achieved? Competence...

... it incorrectly or efficiently and inefficiently. The events of critical incidents could be coded for various characteristics or competences, which seem to be relevant to the particular middle managers' job. After that, they were grouped into five teams for the easiest assessment and the annotation...

...Daniel E. Martin; Benjamin Austin Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce practitioners to the appropriate use of measures of unethical behaviour, evaluate the use of integrity‐related assessments for use in personnel selection, and determine the validity of the moral competency index...

...Pia Polsa; Karen M. Spens; Kai Härkönen; Pauliina Ulkuniemi; Jaana Tähtinen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the competences needed for managing competitive bidding in the Finnish healthcare and to understand the management of competitive bidding holistically, considering...

...Pia Polsa; Karen M. Spens; Satyanarayana Parayitam Purpose Research on strategic decision making has over‐emphasized the importance of competence‐based trust among the team members. Literature on healthcare is silent on the impact of competence‐based trust between the physicians and administrators...

...Khalid Hafeez; Essmail Ali Essmail Purpose This paper seeks to introduce an integrated framework to determine the relationships between organisation core competences and associated personal competencies. Design/methodology/approach At first organisation core competences are determined...

...Malte L. Peters; Stephan Zelewski Purpose This paper seeks to develop a model for the assignment of employees to workplaces. Assignment methods are of high relevance in practice because employees should be assigned to workplaces according to their competences and preferences to ensure...

... Significant differences between management practices in Mexico and the US were identified. These differences may influence the ability of Mexican companies to compete in the global market place. Research limitations/implications Further research should be conducted to measure the effects of different...