The purpose of the study was to develop an initial competency model necessary for success in the sales managers job in the business to business market. The findings indicate that the initial competency model for sales managers has thirty-two competencies and six competency clusters including,...

Rapid demographic, societal, economic, and technological changes have become such significant forces in all businessesboth large and smallthat executives are becoming acutely aware of how much reliance is placed on human capitalemployeesto achieve results. Already at a marketing disadvantage in...

We analyze the relationships between health expenditure, education and several indicators of human well-being in Africa and Asia. The aim is to suggest some priority measures addressed to increase international cooperation and domestic policies successful to improve health expenditure and...

ABSTRACTInterest in organizational learning and the learning organization has steadily increased over the past decades. Organizational learning is increasingly being viewed as a means for long-term success however, there is little empirical evidence to support this view. This research was...

We analyse the relationships of health, education and income per capita in developed and developing countries in year 2005, as well as the main conclusions of more than sixty studies published by our Association for the period 2001-2009, applied to OECD countries, Latin America, Africa, Asia and...

In this article we present an analysis of several socio-economic indicators related with quality of life, economic development, human capital, social capital and women participation in politics, management, labor and income. We present some econometric models which relate women income ratio with...

ABSTRACTHistorically, there has been a myth in Corporate America which says there is a labor shortage of qualified talent, particularly among women and minorities in the high tech industry. Likewise, in 1998, the Joint Ventures Workforce Initiative Study, which analyzed the supply of skilled...

The purpose of this study is to identify the structural pathways of the learningorganization cultural aspects and knowledge creation process as they relate to determinations ofthe perceived organizational performance improvement in the Korean context.Dimensions of the learning organization and...

The purpose of the study was to construct and test the psychometric properties of the Nurse Manager Competency Inventory (NMCI), a self-assessment tool for measuring the job competencies linked to performance and staff retention of first-line nurse managers employed in the hospital setting. The...

In Jean-Baptiste Say?s economic thought, a productive fund of industrial capabilities generates the emergence of entrepreneurs, workers and scholars. However, success only ensues from the exercise of entrepreneurial capabilities. This article analyzes several classifications of capabilities...