In this article, the main and desired abilities of IC professionals are outlined based literature review, taking into consideration the cycle stages of IC and the studies by Robert L. Katz on managerial abilities. The results show that the skills and competencies of IC professionals may vary according to the IC cycle stages they might be involved in.

The purpose of the research described in this article is to verify the influence of gender difference and firm size on the business competencies self-assessment of knowledge workers in small regional enterprises of Lower Silesia region, in Poland, a transition economy. An individual survey was conducted on the basis of the questionnaire of business competencies. Two trials of 169 knowledge work...

This study aims to analyze the effects of individual competencies on performance in the services industries in Turkey. A survey research was conducted in this study. The survey was addressed to the companies in service sector in Turkey, and the questionnaires have been distributed to 3000 employees in 30 companies and 2679 completed questionnaires were returned, representing a response rate of ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to present a sustainable entrepreneurship model based on entrepreneurial competencies in the country's insurance businesses. Methodology: In general, the approach of this research is mixed (quantitative and qualitative). This research is a developmental and applied research in terms of purpose classification of research. Quantitative and qualitative data ...

The present study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Managerial Behaviour Instrument, Portuguese version, for the Brazilian sport federations. The sample was composed of 263 members of federations, including managerial (39.5%), technical (35.1%), executive (20.6%) bodies and others (4.9%). The study used descriptive, reliability and confirm-atory factor analyses. Values of int...

This article deals with the educational and managerial actions of nurses in the Family Health Program (FHP). It traces the reality of the FHP within the institutional setting of the city of Natal/RN, raises some questions and analyzes the educational action of the program in the daily routine of the Health Units in the light of the literature. Its objective is to contribute to the reflection ab...

entrepreneurs in many small firms could not be experts in only one specific functional area but are required to operate across the range of management competencies; the applicability of competence-based mtd (management training and development) to the broader roles of entrepreneurs in small businesses is likely to be greater than to the roles of many entrepreneurs in large organizations. compet...

Purpose: The purpose of the presented research is to evaluate whether employers’ expectations and needs related competencies potential employees are properly identified by educational institutions do responsible for education training know which considered significant business, if they not what areas discrepancies? Design/Methodology/Approach: was based on comparison between opinions managers c...