@article{MAKHILLTSS2016112723999,
    title = {Codification, Preparation and Verification of Core Competency Paradigm for
Headquarter Management of National Iranian Gas Company},
    journal = {The Social Sciences},
    volume = {11},
    number = {27},
    pages = {6440-6445},
    year = {2016},
    issn = {1818-5800},
    doi = {sscience.2016.6440.6445},
    url = {https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?issn=1818-5800&doi=sscience.2016.6440.6445},
    author = {Ali,Hamid,Abbas Abbas,Saeed and},
    keywords = {their manager’s,Sustainable,considering,categories,proper training},
    abstract = {The present study has synthesized major strategies in order to arrange core competency paradigm
for headquarter management of National Iranian Gas Co. (NIGC) so that the company’s leaders could identify
their manager’s aptitudes and reinforce them using proper approaches. Data gathering and quantitate analysis,
therefore have been carried out using 160 NIGC managers (high-ranking, senior and junior) concluding the
structural mathematical modeling, correlation of study parameters and their relations to provide us with deep
understanding of the competency aspects and components of managers. Having completed literature reviews
and expert interviews, the researcher extracted some primary aspects and indexes which were screened through
some questionnaires and narrowed down to some specific factors. Based on the research findings various
aspects of the NIGC manager’s competency could be classified in 7 categories prioritized as individual,
inter-individual, executive, expert, organizational, analytical and subjective. Having analyzed the interviews
using open coding approach and expert’s viewpoints in the focal group, the author finalized 28 categories of
measurable variables fitted in the aforesaid 7 classes of components. Besides, the status quo of manager’s
competency in NIGC recognized as rather desirable and the paradigm model became validated. Therefore
considering application of an appropriate paradigm for evaluation of manager’s competency and findings of
the paradigm, proper training programs have been considered to promote competent managers, guarantee
manager’s aptitudes and realize the long-term sustainable competitive advantage for the organization (NIGC)
in the current complex business status.}
    }