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Development and Validation of a New Tool to Measure the Profile of Strategic Competencies in the Organizational Practice

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In this study there was presented the validity process of a new tool for measure of strategic competencies. The Strategic Thinking and Behaviour Questionnaire (STBQ) includes 11 competencies: Activity, Creativity, Flexibility, Persistence, Risk preference, Self-efficacy, Analysis, Consequences prediction, Globality, Long-term planning, and Strategic evaluation. The research in a sample of 1503 workers indicated initial support for the validity and reliability of the STBQ. Internal consistency of the STBQ subscales was between .70 to .86. and high level of the validity in the context of cognitive abilities. The STBQ can be used to diagnose a profile of strategic competencies as a predictors set of the individual effectiveness in the task and goal-oriented activity in the work and management situations in the organizational practice.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370, Wrocław, Poland

    Beata Bajcar

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  1. University of Applied Sciences in Nysa, Nysa, Poland

    Zofia Wilimowska

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Leszek Borzemski

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jerzy Świątek

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Bajcar, B. (2020). Development and Validation of a New Tool to Measure the Profile of Strategic Competencies in the Organizational Practice. In: Wilimowska, Z., Borzemski, L., Świątek, J. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 40th Anniversary International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2019. ISAT 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1052. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30443-0_27

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