Tanabalan Subramaniam; Ismail Nizam; Arwa Moustafa Kamil Eissa
Volume 6, Issue 7 , July 2019, , Pages 496-520
Abstract
The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of core competencies (Business Knowledge, Market Awareness, Leadership and Entrepreneurship) of IT professionals on business success. The research includes review of key concepts, theories and existing empirical research to outline key competencies ...
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The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of core competencies (Business Knowledge, Market Awareness, Leadership and Entrepreneurship) of IT professionals on business success. The research includes review of key concepts, theories and existing empirical research to outline key competencies that creates impact to business success. This research adopts positivism paradigm with deductive approach using explanatory research design. The research also adopted non-probability sampling focusing IT middle management in Malaysia group from multiple sectors with a sample size of 147 to examine the impact of defined competency on business success. The research findings outline Business Knowledge and Market Awareness as the most appropriate and have significant core competencies for IT professional to achieve business success. Overall research with the support of literature study, existing published empirical research using underlining theories and data analysis of the research evidently prove Business Knowledge and Market Awareness competency should be focused in the Malaysian IT context. Conversely Leadership and Entrepreneurship competency derives low significant impact against business success whereby researcher has justified the cultural and racial differences are one of the reasons of the negative correlation using relevant studies in Malaysian context. Researcher also suggested Leadership and Entrepreneurship requires awareness in Malaysia to address the globalization in future. This research finding contributes Malaysian organization to address the gaps and fuel up IT department competency model to increase IT productivity which relatively increases overall business productivity to promptly address aggressive business competition.
Omid Heidari; Majid Feyz Arefi; Masoumeh Mirjafari Lashkajani
Volume 5, Issue 3 , March 2018, , Pages 118-140
Abstract
In leading organization, considering to strategic intellectual assets capabilities of managers and their management talent are more important. An excellence of organization depends on the development of attitudes and capabilities of managers. On the other hand, managers’ abilities and the creating ...
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In leading organization, considering to strategic intellectual assets capabilities of managers and their management talent are more important. An excellence of organization depends on the development of attitudes and capabilities of managers. On the other hand, managers’ abilities and the creating power of effective organizational strategies are the most important factors to promote motivation, commitment and loyalty of employee. In recent decades, industrial organizations are facing the pressure of innovation, thus an effective innovation management seems necessary that this will be achieved by specific job roles and competencies and special management skills. In order to ensure the ability of managers in areas of innovation, these competencies should be evaluated and also, it is needed to take necessary actions for developing and expanding them. This study aims to identify and prioritize the most influential and eligibility criteria for innovation managers. In present study, we identified and recognize criteria merit for innovative managers, and we used F.DEMATEL method to determine the relationship and how it influence on measures and its severity of influence, also F.ANP is used to prioritize criteria. The result of this research includes a model that consists of three major criteria and 15 sub-criteria. In research model, future studies, management of change and evolution, innovation and entrepreneurship are achieved the first to third priorities.
