TY - JOUR
T1 - The Impact of Competence on Performance in Industrial Engineering and Management: Conceptualization of a Preliminary Research Model
AU - Pacher, Corina
AU - Woschank, Manuel
AU - Zunk, Bernd M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research belongs to the project “SME 5.0—A Strategic Roadmap Towards the Next Level of Intelligent, Sustainable and Human-Centred SMEs” (funded in the European Union’s Horizon MSCA 2021 programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 10108648).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Industrial companies are constantly confronted with a variety of challenges caused by competitive pressure, globalization, and changing customer behavior. The discipline of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) aims to educate the engineers for tomorrow that balance economic competitiveness, environmental protection, and social acceptance towards facing grand issues of the world, such as climate change, resource scarcity, and energy transition. However, the critical success factors of engineering education remain insufficiently studied. A realignment of engineering education and training requires, on the one hand, a deep understanding of the necessary competences and, on the other hand, an empirically based investigation of the relationship between competences and performance in the actual working environment. This paper conceptualizes a preliminary research model for measuring the impact of competence on the performance of IEM professionals. After discussing the IEM job profile and the core working areas of IEM professionals, the preliminary research model is presented, and future implications are derived.
AB - Industrial companies are constantly confronted with a variety of challenges caused by competitive pressure, globalization, and changing customer behavior. The discipline of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) aims to educate the engineers for tomorrow that balance economic competitiveness, environmental protection, and social acceptance towards facing grand issues of the world, such as climate change, resource scarcity, and energy transition. However, the critical success factors of engineering education remain insufficiently studied. A realignment of engineering education and training requires, on the one hand, a deep understanding of the necessary competences and, on the other hand, an empirically based investigation of the relationship between competences and performance in the actual working environment. This paper conceptualizes a preliminary research model for measuring the impact of competence on the performance of IEM professionals. After discussing the IEM job profile and the core working areas of IEM professionals, the preliminary research model is presented, and future implications are derived.
KW - Impact of Competence
KW - Engineering Education
KW - Industry 4.0
KW - Competence
KW - Structural Equation Modeling
KW - Industrial Engineering and Management
KW - Performance
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2024.01.079
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2024.01.079
M3 - Conference article
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 232
SP - 794
EP - 803
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
T2 - 5th International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing
Y2 - 22 November 2023 through 24 November 2023
ER -