Managerial activities have grown in importance as large corporations co-ordinate and
control an increasing number and variety of economic activities. Their distinctive …

The management sciences are similar to other vocationally oriented research fields, such as
the engineering and bio-medical sciences, in their combination of collegiately controlled …

The diverse nature of the prevailing conceptualizations of skills required for successful
managerial performance hinders our understanding of the phenomenon. This paper …

The article examines the importance of managerial skills across functional and general
management areas. It examines the influence of hierarchical level and functional specialty …

This paper investigates the usefulness of textbook and company approaches to developing
managerial skills and competencies. It suggests that textbooks, based on an “experiential” …

The nature of management and managers and of leaders and leadership is highly
problematic: there is no agreed view on what managers or leaders should do and what they …

Competencies are a component of human capital and one of the most important assets of an
enterprise. They play an important role in strengthening the position of the company in a …

Purpose–This paper aims to show how changes in the workplace may have coincided with
shifts in the importance of managerial skills over the past 15 years and to identify managerial …

Offers an empirical,``total''system approach that determines which characteristics of
managers enable them to be effective in various management jobs. Presents a large-scale …

This paper is concerned with two questions: 1 What are the kinds of skills and other qualities
in managers that contribute to managerial success and performance in various forms? 2 To …