During the last decades, a number of models is introduced in research, addressing different perspectives of the organizations’ competencies in collaborative networks. This paper introduces the “4C-model”, developed to address competencies of organizations, involved in Virtual organizations Breeding Environments (VBEs), from a new perspective. Design of the 4Cmodel aims at modeling those charact...

This chapter introduces a tool for assessing engineers' interest in what is required from successful systems engineers, or in other words, assessing the extent of engineers' systems thinking. What is required from successful systems engineers (the characteristics of successful systems engineers) is commonly called 'competencies of successful systems engineers' and much activity to develop syste...

McClelland believed that Competence Model can be divided into two parts: water ice and underwater part of the iceberg. Water ice, that is Threshold Competence, which is based on the quality requirements for competent persons, but it can not with the good performers who distinguish between mediocre. Underwater part of the iceberg of social roles, self-concept, character and motivation of compete...

The problem of comparing and matching different learners’ knowledge arises when assessment systems use a one-dimensional numerical value to represent “knowledge level”. Such assessment systems may measure inconsistently because they estimate this level differently and inadequately. The multi-dimensional competency model called COMpetence-Based learner knowledge for personalized Assessment (COMB...

Theoretical and empirical efforts focusing on the interplay between work context and managerial role requirements have been conspicuously absent in the scholarly literature. This paucity exists despite over 60 years of research concerning the requirements of managerial work and with the rather universal recognition that work context meaningfully shapes organizational behavior. The authors devel...

The paper explores the link between managerial performance and cost efficiency of 617 Japanese general local public hospitals in 1999-2007. Treating managerial performance as unobservable heterogeneity, the paper employs a panel data stochastic cost frontier model with latent classes. Financial parameters associated with better managerial performance are found to be positively significant in ex...