This study is designed to investigate the development of managerial activities and competency of chief executive officers ( CEO ) or superintendents in major healthcare organizations. We used activity competency model ( ACM ) to perceive the importance of managerial activities, skills and knowledge required for them. A survey was designed based on ACM for data collection which includes twenty managerial activities and fourteen competency required to effectively perform these activities. Through personal interviews and questionnaire, the data were collected from ten CEO or superintendents for analysis. The results from this study implicate the setting organizational vision and mission, crisis management, positive ethical work and inspiring or supporting subordinates as the most important managerial activities; analysis and problem solving, leadership, communication and coordination and system thinking as the most important competency. These results can be served as guideline for recruiting and training the chief executive officers of healthcare organizations.

This study discusses an activity competency model (ACM) which was utilized to investigate the perceived importance of managerial activities and skills/knowledge required of three management levels of Multi-national Corporation (MNC) under cross culture working environment in Middle Eastern area country. The 177 samples of this study collected mainly on different level of mangers from seven oil; petrochemical manufacturing industries and six service industries such as financial companies; bank and trade companies. Many quantitative methods, including factor analysis, one-way ANOVA, t-test, data correlation were utilized to test the hypothesis of this research. The major findings of this study are summarized as following: (1) the importance of MNC managerial activities varies significantly for both different levels of management and different industries. (2) the most important managerial three skills; communication, persuasiveness and coordination skill; planning and organizing skill; leadership skill are all identical in each management level and industry type as well. (3) it is very diversity in terms of cross-relationship between managerial skill and activity. (4) it is more concern on diversity of culture for lower management level than for upper level due to frequent personal contact and communication. The results of this study have implications for MNC management development, training, and management career planning. They can also serve as a guideline for recruiting or dispatching the capable expatriate manager for international business enterprise.

This study utilized an activity competency model (ACM) to investigate the perceived importance of managerial activities and skills/knowledge required of chief executive officer (CEO) from the healthcare industry. A survey instrument was designed based on the ACM for data collection that encompasses twenty initial managerial activities and fourteen managerial competences required to effectively perform these management activities. These activities were identified through a literature review, job analysis, and iterative personal interviews with domain experts. The results from this study have implications for healthcare management development, training, and management career planning. These results can also serve as guideline for recruiting the right healthcare CEO.

This study proposed an activity competency model (ACM) to investigate the perceived importance of managerial activities and skills required of three levels of nurse managers from three levels of hospitals. A survey instrument was designed based on the ACM for data collection that encompasses forty-two initial nursing management activities and twelve managerial skills required to effectively perform these management activities that were identified through literature review, job analysis, and iterative personal interviews with domain experts. Our findings indicate that the importance of nurse managerial activities is significantly different from the levels of management, but not significantly different from the levels of hospitals. In particular, top and middle levels of management perceived the human resources management related activities as more important than the supervisory management. Middle management perceived the importance of operation management significantly higher than supervisory management. Top management perceived the importance of goal setting & planning significantly higher than middle management. Middle management perceived the importance of goal setting & planning significantly higher than supervisory management. Supervisory management perceived the importance of material & environment management significantly higher than top and middle managements. The results from this study provide implication guidelines for management development programs, training, and the career planning for nurse managers. They also can serve as guideline for recruiting and selecting the effective nurse managers.

Based on activity competency model (ACM), this study investigated the perceived importance of professional activities and required knowledge/skills/abilities of three levels of information systems (IS) managers from two sectors of industries. Our findings indicate that the importance of IS managerial activities varies significantly for different levels of management, but does not vary significantly for different industries. The results of this study have implications for management development, training, and IS manager career planning. They can also serve as guideline for recruiting the proper IS managers.

Chief Information Officers (CIOs) in contemporary enterprises should not only possess technology specialties, but also cultivate themselves with an in-depth understanding of business and technology management skills/knowledge in order to effectively improve their role performance, enhance sustainable competitive advantages and achieve business strategic goals. Based upon activity competency model and prior theoretical works, this study presents a conceptual model to investigate the capability of business technology management (BTM) required by CIOs and the impacts of that capability on the performance of their roles. Our strategy for identifying CIOs¡¦ critical roles and activities, and the skills/knowledge required by CIOs is anchored within a comprehensive framework of business technology management (BTM) practices. A scale to measure CIOs¡¦ role performance and BTM capability was first developed and validated. Nine hundred and sixty eight high-tech companies of Taiwan and China which have a formal MIS department and global logistic firms were randomly selected from the databases of China Credit Information Service Ltd. and Strait Exchange Foundation as representative samples in this study. The partial least squares method was used to empirically test the conceptual model and hypotheses through the large-scale survey data collected. The empirical results support the proposed hierarchy of BTM capability and confirm that both business technology and business management competencies have positive significant influences on BTM activity effectiveness and BTM capability also significantly impacts CIOs¡¦ role performance. The findings of this study are of particular value to those concerned with BTM capability training and competency development for CIOs. Executive management can take advantage of such BTM capability profiles to assist in making succession-planning decisions and implementing guidelines by evaluating the competency levels and development needs of their IS professionals.