A competency framework for the business rescue practitioner profession
Acta Commercii
| Field | Value | |
| Title | A competency framework for the business rescue practitioner profession | |
| Creator | Pretorius, Marius | |
| Description | Orientation: Business Rescue Practitioner (BRP) tasks are complex and involve a wide range of knowledge, tacit skills and experience not accessible to novices.Research purpose: Competencies required by business rescue practitioners (BRPs) to navigate a distressed venture were investigated. What BRPs actually ‘do’ during a rescue guided the development of a competency framework to inform future qualification guidelines for BRP education and accreditation.Motivation for the study: To investigate the research question: ‘What are the competencies that underlie the activities of a business rescue practitioner?’.Research design, approach and method: A modified ‘interview to the double’ (ITTD) process was used to elicit instructions that a BRP would give to an imaginary ‘double’. These instructions were analysed and rated for importance, transferability, knowledge requirement and skills requirement; in conclusion, these instructions were ranked and subjected to a content analysis.Main findings: Based on the main activities that were derived from the practices and praxis, one assignment and four supra (higher-level) competencies were consequent to the analysis. A BRP able to successfully navigate a distressed venture towards normal operations should demonstrate a high level of competency in sense-making, decision making and integration, achieved through collaboration as the central competency.Practical implications: Firstly, the study addresses educators’ need for a framework of competencies to guide education. Secondly, it paves the way for the Regulator to develop a qualifications framework for accreditation.Contribution: The findings gave structure to the competencies underlying the activities of a BRP to navigate a rescue. Pre-business and financial acumen appears limited without these competencies containing insight, experience, intuition, heuristics, tacit knowledge, perceptive induction and more. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2014-08-18 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ac.v14i2.227 | |
| Source | Acta Commercii; Vol 14, No 2 (2014); 15 pages 1684-1999 2413-1903 | |
| Language | eng | |
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