THE STUDY OF LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES OF IRAN TEJART BANKS PRESIDENTS AND INTRODUCING A PROPER MODEL

Abstract

One of the most important aspects of obtaining competitive advantage in today’s business
environment is to pay attention to the human resources and focusing on competency- orientation of
the human capitals. So, paying attention and recognizing the management competencies of Iran
Tejart Banks presidents based on competency model is of significant importance due to the
importance and sensivity of special activities and the necessity for selecting a proper approach
toward selecting and developing this group of bank workers and also lack of comprehensive study
resources in this field and having no fixed framework for introducing the required competencies
for bank presidents. The present research is descriptive- correlational based on the nature and
methodology, since it deals with the study and expressing the present time and describes what
exists. In the review of literature, different definitions and models of competencies and the
necessity of paying attention to it in the present time were studied from different point of views.
Then in order to prepare a proper model, a questionnaire was designed and sent to 74 bank
presidents at excellent, 1 and 2 degree of Tejart banks and they were asked to define the
importance of the components by answering the questions.
Scoring method was based on Likert scale. So that each of five points in Likert scale takes a
special value and then the results are collected and Spss software is used to do data analysis. Then,
the competencies of branch presidents were divided into seven main clusters of: 1. Intellectual
foundation, 2. Professional skills of the job, 3. Resource management, 4. Performance
management and system evaluation, 5. Leading skills, 6. Interpersonal skills, 7. Personal views.