A Competency-Based Model For Managers In Practice

Globalization of business during the past decades has led to the development of large firms expanding their activities across countries and continents. One of the main issues facing the development of MultiNational Enterprises (MNEs) has always been to find the right balance between the local autonomy of the subsidiaries and the control of the corporate headquarters (Evans, Pucik & Barsoux, 2002). One answer to what often appears as a dilemma has been the development of managerial frameworks (competency-based leadership models) used by these MNEs to specify what are the expectations regarding their managers.