Author: ICRK

about competences

What competency questions does the McKinsey 7S Framework include?

The McKinsey 7S Framework methodology is a widely used method for analyzing teamwork at the level of an entire organization or department. As organizations flatten out and increase decision-making closer to the rank-and-file employees, it can also be a valuable tool for team leaders to consider how they influence strategy execution on a daily basis. It can also be a helpful tool for keeping competing priorities in perspective to align with the organization’s strategic goals. The McKinsey 7S is a set of seven elements that must be aligned for an organization or team to succeed. Below are the main questions

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interviews

How do managerial competencies affect the success of a scientific team? Interview with Prof. Richard Griffith of the Institute for Cross Cultural Management of Florida Institute of Technology

Another interview we conducted on the importance of competencies in the management of scientific institutions was with Prof. Richard Griffith of the Institute for Cross Cultural Management of Florida Institute of Technology. His extensive experience and high managerial competence gave us a lot of inspiration while recording the interview, but now we also like to go back to it and recall what we heard. Prof. Richard Griffith’s academic work includes research on leadership and cross-cultural work. His achievements include publications on cross-cultural management issues, cross-cultural teams, and organizational psychology. Professor Griffith’s achievements include books, articles and chapters on leadership, cross-cultural

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about competences

What competencies will really be needed in 2024?

The advent of GPT technology and open access to this technology in the form of GPT Chat has led to a heated discussion about what competencies will be needed in the future. Today we present an interesting TEDx talk on how a radical breakthrough like artificial intelligence will change our perception of competencies and the demand for particular competencies. The skills of the future will stimulate a growth mindset, allow us to overcome learned helplessness and help us close the skills gap, developing all of our human potential. TEDx speaker Arndt Pechstein presents a holistic and comprehensive tool for identifying,

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interviews

What are the competencies that determine the success of a scientist? Interview with Prof. Corinna Peifer University of Lübeck

In this episode of interviews on competence management in universities, we host Prof. Corinna Peifer from the Department of Psychology at the University of Lübeck. Prof. Corinna Peifer is not only a specialist in the field of research team management, but also the leader of the German part of our project “Flow and effectiveness of the virtual team”, funded by the Polish NCN and the German DFG. See more here: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?projekt_id=498926 If you watch the interview with Prof. Corinna Peifer, you will find out: The interview with Prof. Corinna Peifer is conducted by: The interview is available on YT: About

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interviews

How do universities around the world support the scientific activity of their employees in order to make the most of their competencies? Interview with Prof. Matias Pulópulos Tripiana of Ghent University (Bielgium)

Today we present another of the interviews we have recorded in the C4RE series on managing the competencies of academics and competence management at the university. This time we speak with Prof. Matias Pulópulos Tripiana of the Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology at Ghent University. He is a researcher working in the area of Affective and Cognitive Neuroscience. His research aims to understand the effects of stress on health and cognition and the neurocognitive mechanisms of stress regulation and stress-related disorders in young and elderly people. He has led several national and international grants and projects. He has

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publications / research results

Our publication from the international conference “6th International Conference on Knowledge Management Systems ICKMS2023”

As part of the conference, which we wrote about in our previous post, we published an article titled “Teamwork Effectiveness of Virtual Teams Supported by the Knowledge Management System.” The publication was funded by our project “Flow and Effectiveness of Virtual Teams”, funded by the Polish NCN and the German DFG. See more here: https://projekty.ncn.gov.pl/index.php?projekt_id=498926 What did we write about in the article? Based on the theoretical foundations of team effectiveness, we formulated four research questions, which we tried to answer during the empirical research. They are as follows: The purpose of this article was to provide answers to these

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conferences

We participated in the conference entitled “6th International Conference on Knowledge Management Systems ICKMS2023”

In May 2023, the “6th International Conference on Knowledge Management Systems ICKMS2023” was held, which brings together specialists in the field of knowledge management systems. As a team of the Interdisciplinary Center for Human Resources Development, we are working in various projects on knowledge of competence, teamwork, flow and efficiency in virtual teams. That’s why we decided to write a paper for this conference and also participate in it. Initially, the conference was to be held stationary in Atlanta in the United States, but due to the number of registered participants and their different backgrounds, it was moved to the

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interviews

What competencies will be worth improving as a research project manager? Interview with Prof. Visente Martinez Tur of the University of Valencia (Spain)

In the next interview we conducted as part of our C4RE series, we ask our guest, Prof. Visente Martinez Tur of the University of Valencia, about the hard competencies involved in managing a research project. When you watch the interview, you’ll get answers to the following questions: See the full interview: About our interviewee: Prof. Visente Martinez Tur is a professor at the University of Valencia in Spain and coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (WOP-P) program. He has made significant contributions to applied psychology and fulfills all the requirements for IAAP

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publications / research results

Our publication from the international conference “Modernity of Industry and Services” (MIS 2023)

The annual conference organized by TNOiK, Katowice Branch, took place on November 22-24, 2023, where we were able to present our research results in the form of an article entitled “KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION OF MANAGERIAL COMPETENCES IN VIRTUAL TEAMS AIMED AT ARTIFICIAL MANAGEMENT.” In a previous blog post, we briefly introduced the concept of an organizational size system to represent knowledge of competencies in the form of organizational sizes, and consequently in the form of managerial activities. Today we will briefly introduce the published article. The purpose of the article was to present a solution to a research problem in the

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conferences

The International Scientific Conference “Modernity of Industry and Services” (MIS 2023 – Modernity of Industry and Services) is coming up

The annual international conference entitled “Modernity of Industry and Services” will kick off on November 22, 2023. “Modernity of Industry and Services.” We were pleased to register our presence and sent an article on the representation of knowledge of managerial competencies to automate the work of the manager. The conference has a long tradition and several years ago we used to attend it regularly. Now we are back there again and can meet with social scientists, mainly from management and quality sciences, in person. Find out more about the conference here: https://www.polsl.pl/roz1/mis-2023/ What did we write an article about? About

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