Managerial competencies for trade union officials in India: The key to union effectiveness
Professionalisation of the roles that union officials play necessitates certain competencies in them to increase union effectiveness. This paper attempts to understand managerial competencies for union officials in the Indian context. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we developed a “mixed mod...
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| description | Professionalisation of the roles that union officials play necessitates certain competencies in them to increase union effectiveness. This paper attempts to understand managerial competencies for union officials in the Indian context. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we developed a “mixed model” by matching competencies of student activists with those of union officials. Behavioural event interviews conducted with thirty-six union officials led to a competency dictionary with four competencies: result orientation, aligning critical constituencies, networking skills, and effective feedback sharing. Resting on the classical competency theories which have not seen application in industrial relations (IR) scholarship, this paper provides an actionable path to enhance union effectiveness. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e39557db21c0414ea9461b7f9ffc05e92022-12-22T02:25:41ZengElsevierIIMB Management Review0970-38962022-06-01342130142Managerial competencies for trade union officials in India: The key to union effectivenessShankha Shuvra Misra0Piyali Ghosh1XLRI School of Business, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, IndiaIndian Institute of Management Ranchi, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India; Corresponding author.Professionalisation of the roles that union officials play necessitates certain competencies in them to increase union effectiveness. This paper attempts to understand managerial competencies for union officials in the Indian context. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we developed a “mixed model” by matching competencies of student activists with those of union officials. Behavioural event interviews conducted with thirty-six union officials led to a competency dictionary with four competencies: result orientation, aligning critical constituencies, networking skills, and effective feedback sharing. Resting on the classical competency theories which have not seen application in industrial relations (IR) scholarship, this paper provides an actionable path to enhance union effectiveness.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0970389622000441Managerial competencyTrade union officialsStudent activistsCompetency modelCompetency dictionary |
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