Preferred Job Competencies of Engineering Leaders in DoD

Abstract

[...]the LSE should be considered synonymous with the terms Lead Program Systems Engineer, Systems Engineer, Chief Engineer, Technical Manager, and Senior Systems Engineer. [...]the DAU has developed an Acquisition Workforce Qualification Initiative (AWQI) to help employees identify experience gaps and gauge their proficiency against standards (DoD, n.d.). Method The area of competencies and competency models is very broad; accordingly, the authors do not attempt to provide a universal definition for the term competency, but rather review the findings, challenges, and insights of previously published research that is relevant to this study. Since the definition for competency is not globally accepted, the authors will also use the term competency throughout this research to represent the qualifications obtained from the job advertisements for DoD engineering leaders. The information captured previously during the qualitative analysis was analyzed using multivariate techniques with Multidimensional Scaling (MDS). Since our data do not follow a normal distribution, the statistical analysis is more complex and MDS provides us a venue for analyzing the data.