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In this study, we analyze the performance of mutual fund managers who operate in emerging markets. Emerging stock markets differ from mature markets in significant ways, such as weak prosecution for insider trading, poor corporate governance practices, and a lack of liquidity, which create market inefficiencies that active investment strategies can exploit. We evaluate conditional alphas and multiple measures of liquidity, with a focus on equity funds that invest in emerging markets to achieve abnormal returns. Our analysis shows that smaller funds are significantly impacted by liquidity and that conditioning for public information has a significant effect on the distribution of returns. We find evidence of positive abnormal returns, which suggests that active management in emerging markets can be profitable. [Display omitted] • Emerging markets provide good opportunities to exploit informational asymmetries. • We find lower managerial abilities for larger funds. • The liquidity factor is more important than momentum for smaller funds. • Larger funds exhibit higher risk exposure to liquidity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study intends to examine the effect of personality, managerial skills on the entrepreneurial characteristics of lecturers at Universitas Labuhanbatu. This research was conducted at Universitas Labuhanbatu. The research population was all lecturers at Universitas Labuhanbatu amounted 121 lectures. The data were collected by using questionnaires. A total of 121 questionnaires were distributed and returned 111 questionnaires. Therefore, the participants in this present study amounted to 111 lecturers. The research approach was a quantitative approach. The data analysis technique used structural equation modeling, the data was processed using AMOS software version 23. The results showed that the data in the study were normally distributed and had met the goodness of fit test. The results of hypothesis testing indicate that personality affects a lecturer's managerial skills positively and significantly. Lecturer's entrepreneurial characteristics can be influenced by personality and managerial skills. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the development of scientific production in the research topic administrative competencies for the management of financial management worldwide in the time span between 2011 - 2022. As a source of information, the documents indexed in the meta-search engine Scopus were used, the data were interpreted through a bibliometric analysis using indicators of this science that allowed processing 115 documents, from which it was possible to determine the annual production, authors, sources, and most cited articles, as well as the most productive institutions and the correlation between authors, sources, and cited documents. The keywords used in the exploration were: Management competencies, Managerial skills, Management skills, Managerial competencies, and financial management, generating results that were then filtered by language, leaving 112 documents which were finally downloaded in csv format and processed using the R statistical software, by means of the Bibliometrix package. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The literature is dearth in identification and categorization of business management skills required by community pharmacists. While community pharmacy stakeholders (predominantly community pharmacy owners, managers, and pharmacists) and pharmacy students are valuable sources for identifying business management skills, no review is currently available that synthesizes their knowledge. By identifying currently known business skills and organizing these into a managerial skills framework, this review provides a foundation skillset for community pharmacist business management. Six electronic databases were searched for published articles, with titles and abstracts screened according to inclusion criteria. Full articles meeting the specified criteria were assessed and skills identified were mapped to the human, conceptual, and technical skills of a business management framework. Pharmacy stakeholders and students identified 36 business management skills/aptitudes required for community pharmacists. Pharmacy stakeholders most frequently identified the skills of communication, professionalism, general business management, leadership, and teamwork. Although the pharmacy students concurred with many of these skills, they more frequently identified confidence, entrepreneurship, and having prior experience or opportunity in a management role. A substantial number of identified skills/aptitudes were categorized under the human domain of the business management framework. Community pharmacists require training in effective business management, with particular emphasis on human domain skills. The tertiary education system should consider implementing the skills/aptitudes revealed in this review into the pharmacy curriculum. Recruiting business minded personalities into the profession, particularly targeting students with an attraction to business management, is one strategy to improve management skills within the field. • Expanding roles of the community pharmacist has exposed the requirement to integrate effective business management skills within the profession. • Pharmacy students are interested in business management and perceive managerial skills are required for the community pharmacist. • Pharmacy stakeholders and students agree that human domain skills are the most prominent business management category required by community pharmacists. • Since human skills were the most identified management category required for the profession, pharmacy educators could explore current business education programs in reflection of these recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The study examines the determinants of companies' key skills and strategies to understand better how firms can use their resources to achieve success. This study is, therefore, undertaken for this reason to investigate the connections between possible variables. Specifically, it aims to examine the mediating effect of strategic planning on the relationship between technical skills, managerial skills, entrepreneurial skills, business skills, and performance of the small and medium enterprises in Punjab, Pakistan. Data was collected through self-administrative questionnaires with 265 owners/managers of small and medium enterprises in Punjab, Pakistan. PLS-SEM is used to analyze the data and test the hypothesis. The study's findings suggest a significant relationship between managerial skills, entrepreneurial skills, business skills, and strategic planning. Strategic planning mediates the relationship between managerial skills, entrepreneurial skills, business skills, and firm performance for the mediating effect. However, no empirical support has been found from the mediator on the relationship between technical skills and firm performance. This study provides valuable insights into strategic planning's role in improving the firm's performance to the owners/managers of small and medium enterprises, policymakers, and researchers. SMEs owners/managers should also be encouraged to undertake strategic planning that can encourage them to utilize their resources to improve their performance. Finally, the study concludes with feedback from theory, methodology, consequences, guidelines, limitations, and future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Digitalization alongside with being beneficial for the world, makes changes in many aspects, which requires new skills not to lag behind and stay on the surface. Digital sources have already become inseparable part of any realm regardless their specification. Digitalization is defined by scholars as "changes associated with the application of digital technology in all aspects of human society" (6) (Stolterman & Fors, 2004). It is quite difficult to imagine the field and business being successful and able to work neglecting digital world, that is the reason why managers have to be integrated with the novelties and work in cooperation with the electronic devices. Education is one of the fields where digitalization plays great role. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the skills changing digital era requires from the higher educational institutions and the mental challenges of the 21st century, without which it will be difficult to feel as part of the digital society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to answer the following research question: "What potential influence can artificial intelligence have on the managerial skills of supply chain executives?". The research approach is based on three hypotheses relative to the skills of executives in the context of AI adoption and implementation. The findings of the exploratory research confirm the hypotheses. However, the extant data provide a limited perspective on the specific influence of AI on the managerial skills of the supply chain executives. Conclusions state several implications for research. Implications for practice and for major stakeholders within the supply chain are presented. Specific recommendations are made relative to the introduction of a new supply chain discipline focused on AI, in the curricula of the EMBA and MBA programs of business schools. Potential modules, their objectives and main topics are suggested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective To encourage the academy to pursue innovative management education strategies within pharmacy curricula and highlight these experiences in a scholarly dialogue. Summary: Management has often been a dreaded, dry, and often neglected aspect of pharmacy curricula. With the release of Center for Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE) Educational Outcomes 2013 as well as Entry-Level Competencies Needed for Community Pharmacy Practice by National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) Foundation, National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA), and Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) in 2012, managerial skills have seen a new emphasis in pharmacy education. Further, management has greater emphasis within ACPE “Standards 2016” through adoption of CAPE Educational Outcomes 2013 into the standards. Previous literature has shown success of innovative learning strategies in management education such as active learning, use of popular television shows, and emotional intelligence. The academy must build a more extensive scholarly body of work highlighting successful educational strategies to engage pharmacy students in an often-dreaded subject through applying the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the history of engineering management and clearly shows the various phases, both at national and international level, that finally culminated in the commencement of a graduate degree program in engineering management at the University of Naples Federico II and its subsequent evolution to entrepreneurial engineering. Nowadays, the relevance and the strategic importance of engineering skills in the development of innovative businesses and organizations motivates the investigation of the role of the engineer in society. The new figure of the engineer-entrepreneur is so complex and multi-dimensional that it becomes very important to collect contributions of literature from distant areas of investigation not strictly related. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this research is to analyse the literature and 156 companies located in 10 business incubators to determine their major management knowledge gaps and propose a model to enhance managerial skills. The research methodology initially adopted was literature review and survey, and afterwards we used descriptive analysis for the proposed model developed. The results showed that despite the companies going through a triage process to join the incubation process, there are still many gaps related to managerial capacity among the 156 enterprises analysed. In order of priority, the gaps are related to strategies, marketing, finance and accounting, quality, human resources, innovation and complementary capacities. The proposed model included these areas, besides practical trainings, assessment mechanisms and analysis of entrepreneurial skills. Managers of business incubators and other researchers can make use of its results for the development of other models, since this paper represents a contribution to management of knowledge applied in business incubators and micro and small companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The recent financial crisis that saw an increase in the risk premium and shareholders’ return around the world is partly caused by the management use of excessive leverage. This paper investigates the effect of leverage and managerial skills on shareholders’ return. Our regression analysis that accounts for managerial skill factors reveals that leverage has a positive relationship with shareholders’ return. Similarly, managerial skills have a positive relationship with shareholders’ return. Based on the findings, the study suggests that leverage and managerial skills may be priced in equity valuation. We develop an index measure of managerial skills and use the upper-echelon theory of the management literature to explain how managerial skills relate to shareholders’ return. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The aim of this study is to identify the decision-making and problem-solving skill levels of hospital administrators and to determine these skills’ interrelations with other administrative skills. The study comprised a population of 494 hospital administrators (head doctors, hospital managers, head nurses and their assistants) and was carried out in 26 hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health in the city centre of Ankara. Three hundred and thirty-four administrators (67 per cent of the population) participated in the study. To identify the decision-making, problem-solving and other administrative skill levels of the hospital administrators, a scale developed by Sperry (2003) and adapted into Turkish by Şimşek (2006) was used.As a result of the study; a weak, positive and statistically significant relationship has been found between the decision-making and problem-solving skills of hospital administrators and their motivation, loyalty and team performance skills. However, it was determined that there is a moderate, positive and statistically significant relationship between the skills of the delegation and empowerment, effective and strategic communication, conflict management, coaching, consulting and negotiating, the fit of organizational resources with human resources, and time and stress management.It could be suggested that more research be carried out into the reasons why other management skills are at moderately developed levels and that training programmes be organized to develop these skills. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The premise of this article is to analyze the managerial skills competencies of secondary schools heads trained through distance mode of education in Pakistan. For this purpose a sample 300 secondary school teachers and 100 secondary schools head-teachers trained through distance mode and working in the Federal Government Educational Institutions (FGEI) functioning under the administration of Pakistan army. The objectives of the study were: 1) to describe the M.Ed programme of AIOU, 2) to identify the managerial skills competencies of secondary school heads trained through Allama Iqbal Open University, 3) to find-out the managerial problems faced by the secondary school heads of FGEI, 4) to suggest some further suggestion to improve the managerial skills competencies of working heads of FGEI. The study focused the following categories of skills, * interpersonal communication skills, * planning skills, * collaboration/ teamwork skills, (iv) proficiency skills, * organizational skills, * feedback skills, * basic technology knowledge, and * technology access knowledge. Major recommendations of the study were: 1) the scheme of study of M.Ed of Allama Iqbal Open University program be change as per need of administrator and it should focus be on management and administration, 2) For better performance of heads, an induction course covering all the managerial skills relevant to the job principal-sip should be arranged after each term and to be continue through out the service, 3) the present scheme of study of M.Ed program focus on teaching methodology, one additional semester be included that should cover the management courses and , 4) as the present study was delimited to the Federal Governmental Educational Institutions to analyze the managerial skills competencies of working heads of secondary schools. One logical avenue for future is to replicate this study on the whole the country to generalize the results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Management is the primary factor for overall amplification of efficiency, effectiveness and competitiveness of the companies and economy. In this context, is significant to highlight promotion of strategic management, managerial reengineering, improving organizational and managerial culture, privatization of state management companies, professionalization of managers and management. All this, conceived on the generating causes of strengths and weaknesses, resulted on managerial and economic diagnosis of economic operators, can be integrated into a model of efficient management, whose operationalization will result in obtaining managerial performance and thus economic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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An abstract of the article "Summer internship projects in management education: an Indian experience," by Vinti Agarwal and Omprakash K. Gupta is presented.

The importance of leadership in the success of hospitality organizations is often underrated. This is especially true for certain sectors of the hospitality industry such as food service, as the majority of these managers must supervise employees at the lower end of the pay scale. Employees have to be made to feel important, especially in those positions that are at the lower end of the pay scale. If managers do not give concern to the humanistic approach to operations they will be faced with a vast amount of turnover and absenteeism, which in the long run can be extremely costly to the success of the organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Resource-Based View (RBV) approach has become a standard among the trends of thought in company strategy and has been developed in the past few years in the field of sport management (Gerrard, 2005). In this view, we have led this empirical research with the managers of sports special events organisations from 2001 until 2006. Our objective is to understand the way the assets of an event are manipulated. More precisely, we will clarify the role of 'assets managers', highlighting their ability to learn and 'bricolage' as leverage in the building of a unique system of resources (Koenig, 1999). The main axes of reinforcement by training, allowing (among other things) control of the threshold effects and the exploitation of interconnecting resources and their reinjection, a guarantee of renewal and the evolution of a structured inner system can be considered as new analytical tools of resources management (Sirmon et al., 2007). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]