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The central issue addressed by this paper is the determination of the attributes that companies in Antioquia demand from their managerial level officers. It derives from an empirical study whose objective was to recognize the opinion of top executives concerning the expectations companies have about the qualities of a good administrative officer. The research method used was qualitative, descriptive and exploratory in nature. The information was generated through a review of literature and in-depth interviews with top organization executives. The value-generating attributes that employers seek in their managers were determined; among them, humanistic formation was considered the most important one; technical knowledge is considered a rather hygienic factor. The results of the study lend themselves to be used as criteria for the analysis of business programs management, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels, when it comes to curricula reviews, teaching and learning methods and faculty development, all of which may contribute to achieve and/or further the competitive advantages of the institutions offering the programs and their graduates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that the inflexibility, weakness and slowness of business organizations to respond to changing environmental conditions arise from the mismanagement of the complexity that characterizes the dominant paradigm of management. The traditional administration seeks to reduce the complexity of a system that permanently increases. In the article are featured characteristics of the dominant administration paradigm, and the criticisms that have been made by different authors towards the lack of response from the traditional administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The development of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the global market is a priority for economic growth in each country. If SMEs want to stay, grow and develop in a global and dynamic environment must propose strategies that enable them to achieve their business development. This paper explains the different concepts including business development as an inclusive concept, such as economic growth, business culture, leadership, knowledge management and innovation. In this article it is intended that the employer identifies the need for training in these concepts, current and detonating competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper comparatively analyzes syndromes Not-Invented-Here (NIH) and Not-Shared-Here (NSH) and their relationship with innovation performance (DI) and innovation capacities (CI) in business services and trade. In a cluster analysis methodology identified two groups of companies with similar characteristics: Innovative and Upset; an analysis of variance (ANOVA) was also performed to establish meaningful differences in means. As for results, the groups differed in the DI, NIH, NSH variables and only in the CI, construct customer orientation; although, the most important finding indicates that differences in NSH are more significant than in NIH, probably because of the lag in the development of IC Technology Focus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to characterize the management skills that leaders count with, and how these contribute to exercise their duties and the impact on management. The type of study used was the exploratory - descriptive one. To carry out this work, it was designed an instrument of 18 questions and was applied to 786 leaders of mid-sized businesses in the Pacific, Caribbean and Andean regions, that allowed to identify the characteristics of leaders, their ways of conduct and behavior among others; it can be concluded generally that leaders have clear what this concept means, they have a relational leadership profile, they use in a greater proportion oral communication, they behave as reagents leaders, very busy and with high stress. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]