Key managerial competencies and competency models in industrial enterprises

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to highlight the issue of managerial competencies and competency model in industrial enterprises. This paper builds upon the theory of knowledge processing and its role as a theoretical basis for knowledge development in the area of managerial competencies. Managerial competencies are becoming one of the key building blocks of success of the company to achieve both the mission and vision in creating added value and improve business performance and especially the development of their own people. A managerial competency is more than just knowledge and skills. It involves the ability to meet complex demands, by drawing on and mobilising psychosocial resources (including skills and attitudes) in a particular context. While skills and knowledge are a part of a manager's competency that can be measured fairly easily, intangible assets like effective communication and teamwork, while essential, are harder to pin down and evaluate. In the next parts of article is explained a concept of competency model. A competency model organizes the competencies needed to perform successfully in a particular work setting, such as a job, occupation or industry. Copyright © (2012) by Danube Adria Association for Automation and Manufacturing (DAAAM).