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- ItemManagerial competencies for warrant officers in the South African Navy(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999-11) Hanekom, Jurgens Jacobus Hendrik; Van Wyk, B.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Political Science.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Selected Chief Petty Officers undergo advanced training in preparation for their appointment as Warrant Officer at the School for Military Training Part 3, at SAS SALDANHA. The aim of this course is to equip learners with the knowledge, skills and abilities to understand and apply the content of the Warrant of Appointment in staff and management positions in the South African Navy. The current management training curriculum can be viewed· as a model for managerial behaviour based on assumptions made in 1988 regarding the internal and external environment of the South African Navy. However, since the acceptance of the current management curriculum, the environment in which Warrant Officers act as managerial leaders has changed. The lack in complementary change in training output leads to the question: Which managerial competencies are required of Warrant Officers under the new circumstances? The aim of this research is to determine the expected management competencies which Warrant Officers in the South African Navy must possess. An exploratory and descriptive research design is divided in three phases: the first, Forecasting entails the compilation of a predicted management task inventory. This inventory, consisting of six managerial functions with forty-two associated tasks, is compiled on the basis of contemporary models of management as well as the requirements for models of management set by the Department of Defence. The second phase, Testing, is concerned with the evaluation and reevaluation of the inventory against the input from subject matter experts. A sample group of subject matter experts had to evaluate the tasks statements on hand of two criteria: the relative importance of the task and also the relative frequency in performing the task. The subject matter experts also had the opportunity to include any task they deemed necessary to the inventory. The Analysis phase is the conclusive phase in the research design which. entails the analysis of the data received from the previous phase and to compile a final task inventory from which the competency profile is generated. The data from the criteria evaluations were used to determine critical factors of each task by means of an integrated standard analysis. The information obtained from the analysis allowed for the compilation of an inventory of twenty-four tasks that are relatively more critical to the work performance of a Warrant Officer. This twenty-four element inventory was used to compile a competency profile that consists of six core competencies, range statements associated with the competencies, performance indicators as well as inferred knowledge, skills and ability linkages to the core competencies. The researcher concluded with the recommendation that the core competencies (communication, decision making, facilitation, analytical, performance management and change management) should rather be considered as core functional areas in which a Warrant Officer should be competent. Other recommendations are that related profiles, for next higher and lower ranks, will provide a greater functional context to the profile for Warrant Officers. Extended information provided by the related profiles would also make it possible to determine meta-competencies for Non-Commissioned Officers. Lastly, the researcher recommend that research in generic competency profiles should be complimented with research to determine. variances in required competency between different musterings within specified post levels.