This study explores how the amount and the nature of learning accrued during an MBA – measured in terms of competency development – impact on career advancement and compensation. Applying nonparametric statistical analysis on data from behavioral event interviews and survey questionnaires to...

Several studies have analysed the impact of competency-based methodologies on human resource management, with special emphasis on their applications to management education and development. As concerns management education, however, these studies have usually focused on one or few separate...

Despite the acknowledged positive effect of human capital on firm innovativeness, there have been few attempts to investigate which emotional intelligence competencies promote innovative outcomes. In human intensive industrial clusters specialized in traditional products, firm innovativeness...

Research has extensively underlined the positive impact of emotional, social and cognitive competencies on leadership effectiveness. Despite the fact that literature acknowledges that these competencies can be learned from different experiences over a person’s lifetime, research has mainly...