Form 15 (3/31/86) NSF PROJECT IST-850 5411 EXPERIMENTS ON THE COGNITIVE ASPECTS OF INFORMATION SEEKING AND INFORMATION RETRIEVING USER QUESTIONS FOR ONLINE SEARCHES QUESTION NUMBER: 018 A1. BRIEF TITLE: Competencies (skills, abilities) needed in the managerial role A2. QUESTION STATEMENT: Question: What are the key competencies that a manager needs to perform well in a managerial role, in general. (From these, we will later apply these general managerial competencies to the role of the physician-manager-that is, physicians who manage other physicians). TYPE OF SEARCH REQUESTED B. A precise or a broad search: Broad C. Research application: Graduate study-Organizational behavior- Will be used in dissertation and dissertation results will be used by school of management to create 1)a new program for physician managers 2)and for the creation of a model of managerial competencies to be used with other groups as well. D. Retrieve articles in English only or any language: English E. Years to be searched: No limits F. DIALOG databases suggested: Maybe-Management contents