Richard Boyatzis

"A threshold competency is a person's generic knowledge, motive, trait, self image, social role, or skill which is essential to performing a job, but is not causally related to superior job performance…"

"When the sample size is small or the study is of one organization, descriptive use of the thematic coding is desirable."

"The raw data or information collected for studies using is a person's own words or actions or observable aspects of his or her life in an organization or culture."

"An underlying characteristic of a person in that it may be a motive, trait, skill, aspect of one’s self-image or social role, or a body of knowledge which he or she uses... a person’s competencies ref…"

"Models of management sometimes come from task and function analyses of management jobs. Someone studies what managers do, or what duties and responsibilities they are expected to perform, and then dev…"

"The study resulted in a model of competence, not merely a laundry list of characteristics."

"A job competency is an underlying characteristic of a person in that it may be a motive, trait, skill, aspect of one’s self-image or social role, or a body of knowledge which he/she uses. The existenc…"

"It’s that feeling when you make it home Friday night and pour yourself a drink or a glass of wine and feel like the blood has drained out of you... I actually think is the wrong description of it. I t…"