In today’s organisations senior managers have to cope with strategic environments characterised by high levels of uncertainty, volumes of information, and shifting business models. As a consequence, their individual strategic expertise may not be sufficient to help the organisation chart its way through this environment. Many talk about the need for organisational agility in this environment. O...

This research investigated the strategic use of competence valuation in achievement settings and examined the consequences of implementing this self-enhancement strategy for intrinsic motivation. In two studies, participants reported higher competence valuation following positive feedback; in turn, competence valuation was positively related to intrinsic motivation. Competence valuation mediate...

Under the background of the knowledge economy and globalization, knowledge becomes the firm's strategic resources, enhancing the core competence of industrial clusters requires knowledge management. In this paper, firstly, the connotation of the core competence of industrial clusters is analyzed. The mechanism of knowledge management affecting the core competence of industrial clusters is studi...

The present study examines the role that employee self-efficacy fulfills in ERP effectiveness. For this examination, the study uses data from 116 key users from different companies with ERPimplementation experience in Taiwan. Results suggest that ERP training and learning significantly improved ERP Effectiveness. However, regarding improved business performance, respondents with ‘high’ ERP-trai...

this study investigates the relationship between extraversion/introversion personality dimension and the use of strategic competence (sc) in oral referential communication by iranian efl learners. referential communication refers to a kind of guided communication in which the referents (or topics) are given to the speakers to convey their meanings to the listeners. 50 sophomore english students...

Strategic leadership has been proposed as critical to organizational effectiveness. As African economies transition from socialist to open market states, strategic leadership will be instrumental to the effectiveness of African organizations. Unfortunately, few studies of strategic leadership in African organizations exist. To fill this gap, a model of strategic leadership is proposed here. Str...

The paper challenges the prevalent paradigm that differentiates between the management of a core competence and commodity processes. A case study is conducted to examine the strategic planning and management of a call center to illustrate that a commodity process, such as handling customers’ complaints and enquiries, can be transformed into a core competence, if a clear strategic intent is arti...

This paper reviews and identifies the distinct perspectives on knowledge management as well as the key conceptual views on competence and competence management. It introduces the perceivable co-evolution of knowledge management and competence management in recent research and practice, and shows the movement towards an integrated and systemic view where the overall challenge for both is the man...

The paper will discuss the application of the value chain principles used in education and learning and this will be exemplified in a model. Based on that model the paper focuses on the differences in value-added activities depending on whether the aim is individual life-long learning (i.e. Diploma or MBA programmes) or strategic competence development in organisations. During interviews with i...