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Managerial competencies and performance appraisal practices are often ignored when considering the performance of Small-to-Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Yet, these competencies and practices are fundamental for the survival of the SMEs. SMEs are critical for economic growth and job creation in many...
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and the low-motivation of managers to invest in skill development. This is the so-called "competence paradox", according … to which firms investing in their employees' competence development simultaneously increase the risk that these employees … variety of competence development and training in the SMEs. …
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demand for competences to develop new businesses and the competence of training and development by higher education … to enhance entrepreneurial competence dissemination and development across education programs and beyond. …
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competing demands and pressures. This study investigates experiences of autonomy, competence, and relatedness among middle … managers' performance. Personal competence in one's subject areas and relatedness emerge as key factors ensuring employee …, competence, and relatedness may mitigate the perceived stress associated with being a middle manager in the UUC sector. By …
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The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
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Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher...
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