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Managerial Resourcefulness

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  • R.N. Kanungo

    (R.N. Kanungo is Chair Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada.)

  • S.T. Menon

    (S.T. Menon is Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Marketing, College of Business Administration, Louisiana State University, USA.)

Abstract

Kanungo and Misra (1992) distinguished ‘skills’ from managerial ‘competencies’, the latter being the basic components of a manager’s resourcefulness. Resourcefulness is critical in performing leadership roles that require coping with non-routine, unprogrammable and ill-structured tasks. This paper attempts to clarify the nature of the resourcefulness construct by operationalising it in terms of three basic competencies: affective, intellectual and action-oriented. An empirical study involving 485 managers revealed the underlying structure of resourcefulness as closely paralleling the three competencies. In addition, a fourth overarching dimension of goal-directed problem orientation emerged from the analysis. The study yielded a psychometrically sound measure of managerial resourcefulness with convergent, discriminant and criteria-related concurrent validity. The measure can be used as a diagnostic tool for recruitment and training purposes.

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  • R.N. Kanungo & S.T. Menon, 2005. "Managerial Resourcefulness," Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, vol. 14(1), pages 39-55, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:jouent:v:14:y:2005:i:1:p:39-55
    DOI: 10.1177/097135570401400103
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