Over the past years and due to demographic change, technical progress and globalisation of markets, the working environment has undergone significant changes. In today’s knowledge-based society employees are confronted with new challenges time and again. For those who want to keep up with the time, a steady refresh of their knowledge and competencies through further education is crucial. The kn...

A. Morariu, I. Bostan, “Stefan cel Mare” University, Faculty of Economics, Suceava. When dealing with the issue of increased labour productivity in steel companies, as well as in any other economic sector, managers are faced with a diffi cult choice – investing in technologies and competencies or diminishing the number of jobs. The economic literature and statistical data available on the Roman...

We develop theory about how growing at work is an interpretive accomplishment in which individuals sense that they are making progressive self-change. Through a study of how employees interpret themselves as growing at three organizations, we develop a theoretical account of how employees draw from contextual and personal resources to interpret their growing in ways that embed their idiosyncrat...

employee empowerment is a new approach of internal motivation of job means to free internal energy of employee and also provides opportunities for them to actualize their talent, abilities and competencies. current research implemented within models of votten and kamron that implicate multi-dimensions of empowerment have four dimensions of feeling competent, feeling being meaningful, self-deter...

The authors examined the effects of supervisory guidance (providing instruction to employees) and behavioral integrity (a pattern of word-deed alignment) on employee organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) and deviant behavior. Results revealed a pattern of Supervisory Guidance x Behavioral Integrity interaction effects, such that relationships between guidance and outcome variables were depe...

the current study aims to examine and identify competency dimensions, factors and indices for managers of science and technology parks of iranian public university in order to present of a conceptual model. the targeted population consisted of two parts including experts in the field and managers and experts in science and technology parks. for this purpose, exploratory method was used and data...