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A study to develop a competency model for Chinese EHS managers

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With the continuous progress of China’s industrialization, problems with the environment, health and safety (EHS) have become increasingly prominent. A study on EHS managers’ competency model shall help Chinese enterprises build up an EHS professional team and accomplish EHS managerial goals. This article adopts the “behavioral event interview” (BEI) method to extract characteristic indexes for EHS managers, and then conducts a questionnaire-based survey to collect data to establish and validate a basic competency model for Chinese EHS managers.

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  1. Department of Business Management, Lingnan College, and Lingnan-ISC Environment, Health and Safety Academy for Chinese Enterprises, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Xiaohui Wang

  2. Lingnan-ISC Environment, Health and Safety Academy for Chinese Enterprises, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Jing Gao

  3. Department of Management, Guangdong School of Administration, Guangzhou, 510275, China

    Xiqing Xie

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Wang, X., Gao, J. & Xie, X. A study to develop a competency model for Chinese EHS managers. Front. Bus. Res. China 5, 580–596 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11782-011-0146-z

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