Preferences of transversal competences: focus of top management

Abstract

The present article gathers the vision of 67 executives of the State Morelos companies about the preferences in terms of transversal competences in the collaborators. Although, some transversal competences are related to the specific knowledge acquired through formal education as a capacity for analysis and synthesis, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) management, ability to make decisions; others are implicit during the process of educational training such as resilience, self-motivation, and emotion management; however, they are important for success in the work environment. Identifying these preferences based on the voices of senior managers who can hardly be accessed for this type of study, made it possible to identify the most important ones based on the design and application of an instrument that used 46 items, measurable on a standard scale. Likert from 1 to 10. Through correlational analysis and a linear regression model the results show that the dimension of transversal competences of greater importance is the dimension of personal competences, with a Pearson correlation of 0.919 and p = 0.01 to two tails; that invites us not to lose sight of the importance of being in the organization. Likewise, three Levels of Transversal Competences (LTC) were identified through a K-means analysis, 83% of the companies showed a high LTC.