Rachel Applegate is Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, Indianapolis; e-mail: [email protected] Over half of all non-student employees of academic libraries are support staff. What competencies should these workers possess? To what extent are these competencies similar across library departments and across library types—in what ways do they diff...

This study was conducted at colleges in three countries (United States, Venezuela, and Spain) and across three academic disciplines (engineering, education, and business), to examine how experienced faculty define competencies for their discipline, and design instructional interaction for online courses. A qualitative research design employing indepth interviews was selected. Results show that ...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is essential for both pubic and private organizations as it provides a holistic approach to align information technology with business objectives. EA implementation is a multidisciplinary, complicated, and endless process. Therefore, successful EA implementation calls for highlyskilled personnel possessing diverse competencies. During the last years a few attempts h...

The use of competency systems for evaluation, reward, and promotion has become commonplace in many organizations in recent years. Competency development and management are widely regarded as vital tools to enhance competitiveness for organizations. The aim of this research was to distinguish the differences in competencies among high-, mediumand low-performers in the automobile industry. Data w...

We present several quality criteria for skills management initiatives based on the competence-performance approach [Kor97]. The criteria help to measure reliability and validity of a skills management approach and thereby help to determine the suitability of competency assignments in an organisation. The approach is illustrated by a case study. 1 The need for Quality Criteria in Skills Manageme...

This study gives emphasis on how a values-based Performance Management System can lead to promoting congruence between organizational core values and the personal of employees. Specifically, this focuses tertiary higher education institution located in Manila, Philippines may be designed order achieve values. Congruence contributes success by ensuring that behaviors exhibited employees workplac...

This paper presents a study of the relationship between employees’ investments in their career capital development (conceptualized as knowing-why, knowing-how, and knowingwhom) and their contributions to their employing organizations, and the role career satisfaction plays in this relationship. With this focus, the paper aims to contribute to research on the consequen...

Drawing upon self-determination theory, this study tested different types of behavioral regulation as parallel mediators of the association between the job’s motivating potential, autonomy-supportive leadership, and understanding the organization’s strategy, on the one hand, and job satisfaction, turnover intention, and two types of organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB), on the other hand....

This study explores the validity of the five-factor model of personality (FFM) in occupational settings in Greece, examining its relationship to employees’ overall job performance, job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviour, and generic work competencies. Two hundred and twenty-seven employees from various Greek SMEs participated in the study completing a personality and a job satis...