BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Skill
- the ability to do something well, gained through training and experience.
- See also Competence
Wiktionary Definition for: Skill
- #capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
Additional Resources
- Effective Delegation Skill
- Delegation skill is the ability to effectively assign task responsibility and authority to others. Or, in other words, delegation skill is a person's ability to get things done by using work and time of other people. Effective delegation is a critical survival skill for managers and supervisors, and this is...
- White papers
- 11 Tips To Increase Your Time Management Skills
- Time management is a skill that many of us seem to learn through necessity. The problem with learning a skill through necessity is that, more often than not, bad habits creep in and, although the skill may be useful in general, we do not use it to its full potential....
- White papers 2008-02-13
- Management Skill vs. Leadership Skill
- A growing business needs both Leadership and Management to thrive. Article explains that the best companies have managers with strong leadership skill and superb management skill. But when chaos strikes, they can’t always concentrate on both. Article examines what they lose when they neglect one or the other, as both...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Outsourcing Peter To Pay Paul: High Skill Expectations And Low-Skill Wages
- This paper investigates the impact of globalization on wages earned by low and high-skill workers when openness leads to the outsourcing of high-tech jobs abroad. The authors have shown that low-skill workers may become considerably better off after globalization due to the fact that high-skill workers start accepting low-tech jobs....
- White papers 2006-05-05
- Integrating Knowledge Management and Human Resources Via Skill Management
- Knowledge is more and more a key factor within companies. Nearly 40 percent of all employees are so called "knowledge workers". Distribution and inquest of knowledge within companies are supported by skill management systems. Although not all aspects and potentials of this instrument are yet utilized skill management systems have...
- White papers 2005-03-30
- Time Management Skill: Improving Through Actions
- Your time management skills are directly proportional to your ability to take the right actions at the right time for the right reasons. The act of making a decision is part of this time management skill. You have to quickly go through each thing and just decide what action you...
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Whatever Happened to Skill-Based Pay?
- The argument that paying for animated people skills and capabilities rather than inanimate jobs was and is a powerful and convincing one. It just makes immense sense to organize the work to be done around the capabilities of the people to hire, rather than just forcing people into jobs and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 11 Solid Ways To Improve Your Time Management Skills
- Time management is a skill that many of us seem to learn through necessity. The problem with learning a skill through necessity is that, more often than not, bad habits creep in and, although the skill may be useful in general, we do not use it to its full potential....
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Globalization and the Demand for Skill: An Export Based Channel
- This paper shows that international trade affects the demand for skill through an export based channel. The paper presents a working hypothesis, which states that the very act of exporting requires an effort of skill upgrading, in particular among occupations related to marketing and development. Using firm level data,...
- White papers 2002-03-12
- What kind of results can I expect from my marketing?
- The author of this article says that the marketing is a skill, just like playing piano or playing golf. As you increase your marketing skills, you can expect greater and greater results. The same way you increase any skill -- by learning the effective steps (system) of that skill and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- What to do about Skill Based Pay?
- Skill based pay plans, flexible by nature, seem to offer a great solution to organizations who must be flexible to survive --- isn't that all of us. Based on competence rather than duties performed skill pay allows companies to pay employees for their value to the organization and provides a...
- White papers 2000-07-04
- Skill Acquisition, Firm Creation And The Transition To Market
- There exists substantial evidence that skill shortages have characterized labor relocation during the transition from plan to market. Along with technological and aggregate demand changes, this pattern of human capital relocation has been associated with unemployment and income inequality. Using a search model, it is examined that the link between...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- Addressing Skill Shortages: An Industry-Government Partnership
- The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) have been working with the Australian Government and the member organisations to identify the reasons for, as well as solutions to, the issue of skill shortages. Skill shortages are one of the most significant concerns for business and ACCI is determined to...
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Procrastination: The New Master Skill Of Time Management
- There was a time when business moved at a much slower pace than it does today. There was also a time before "Downsizing" when organizations had more people - sometimes more than enough people - to complete all of the workload within their companies. Before the advent of e-mail, voice-mail,...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Improve Your Time Management Skill And Stop Procrastination!
- Although it is important to improve your time management skill, procrastination will short-circuit it every time. Schedulers and day planners are all great tools, but they are useless if you block yourself from using them to your advantage. A schedule is only good if you stick to it. The problem...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Skill Management: Searching Highly Skilled Employees for Teambuilding and Project Management Tasks
- Efficient project planning from a human resource point of view requires project oriented organization forms to take into account the permanent change of requirements and framework conditions during the duration of a project correctly. Skill management systems are an excellent management tool for this challenge, if in addition to default...
- White papers 2005-05-23
- Using Analogies: A Thinking Skill
- A good analogy does not just invoke some chance resemblance between the thing being explained and the thing introduced to explain it. It capitalizes on a deep similarity between the principles that govern the two things...A good analogy helps you think: the more you ponder it, the...
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- A Field Study Of Early Organizational Outcomes From The Introduction Of A Skill Based Pay Program
- Despite the documented increased use of skill or knowledge based pay programs in organizations, little evidence exists to demonstrate whether these plans achieve the results that are intended. This study, a quasi-experimental, empirical test of the organizational outcomes from the introduction of a skill based pay program, addresses this need....
- White papers
- The Right Stuff: Understanding Cultural Differences in Leadership Performance
- A study was conducted that examined which managerial skill dimensions were critical for effective leadership for managers in the USA and seven European countries. The results suggested more similarities than differences across countries. Specifically, a core group of two skill dimensions emerged as critical for effective leadership across countries and...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Develop Your Interpersonal Communication Skills For Success At Work And At Home
- As a business owner, you probably haven't done this in a while, but take a quick peek at the job postings in the paper or at one of the online career search sites. What is the one skill required of almost every job? GOOD INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION SKILLS. What is the...
- White papers 2007-07-08
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