Designing a Business Management Competency Model for Iranian Industrial and Manufacturing Organizations

This study aims to design a management competency model for Iranian industrial and manufacturing organizations. This study uses a descriptive-survey method in which 256 managers of Iranian industrial and manufacturing organizations were sampled by purposive sampling and then studied in 2012 and 2013. Data collection was carried out by a research-made questionnaire. The instrument validity was assessed and verified based on the comments of university professors who were dealing with the subject of this study, while taking advantage of principal component analysis method and latent variables measurement fit using confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability was measured by Cronbach’s alpha which revealed a reliability of (R=90%), and as it can be claimed that the instrument enjoys a good reliability. To test the hypotheses of this research, structural equation modeling was used. The results verify all leading and alternative hypotheses of this study and reveal the existence of relationship between the competencies of management competency model for Iranian industrial and manufacturing organizations. The variable of business management enjoys the highest level of effectiveness. In other words, it enjoys the most significant relationship with management competency and then come the variables of managing others and managing self, respectively.