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Simplifying the Manager Competency Model by Using the Rough Set Approach

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It is now a leading company strategy to apply competency models for identifying and developing capabilities of their managers. However, a competency model usually contains too many intended competencies to be implemented. Recently, some scholars and experts argue that eight is the maximum for managers to assess. Hence, how to simplify the manager competency model is becoming an important issue. Well known as data mining techniques, the rough sets theory is a relatively new approach and good at data reduction in qualitative analysis, so that the rough set approach is suitable for dealing with the qualitative problem in simplifying the competency model. The aim of this paper is to mining the minimal set of competencies through using the rough set approach to help companies for better utilizing the competency model. The results show that the “self-management” competency is the most indispensable portion to a manager competency model.

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  1. International Trade Department, Ta Hwa Institute of Technology, 1. Ta Hwa Road, Chiung-Lin, Hsin-Chu, 307, Taiwan

    Wei-Wen Wu

  2. Distinguished Chair Professor G.-H. Tzeng, Institute of Management of Technology, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsueh Road, Hsinchu, 300, Taiwan

    Yu-Ting Lee

  3. Department of Business Administration, Kainan University, No.1 Kainan Rd, Shinshing Tsuen, Luchu Shiang, Taoyuan, 338, Taiwan

    Gwo-Hshiung Tzeng

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2 Canada, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Koszykowa 86, 02-008 Warsaw, P.O. Box, Poland

    Dominik Ślęzak

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Regina, S4S 0A2, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

    JingTao Yao  & Wojciech Ziarko  & 

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  4. College of Computer and Information Engineering, Hehan University, Henan, China

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Wu, WW., Lee, YT., Tzeng, GH. (2005). Simplifying the Manager Competency Model by Using the Rough Set Approach. In: Ślęzak, D., Yao, J., Peters, J.F., Ziarko, W., Hu, X. (eds) Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing. RSFDGrC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3642. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11548706_51

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