Operational Definitions of Expertise and Competence

By Richard W. Herling. 2000

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Subfields: Strategy and Management

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Citations in the corpus

• Human resource development and its underlying theory (2001, background): “Recent examples in the literature include ‘Operational deŽnitions of expertise and competence’ (Herling 2000), ‘Commonly held theories of human resource development’ (Weinberger 1990) and An Overview of Organization Development Definitions: Ten Dependent Variables (Egan 2000).”
• The Boundary Approach of Competence: A Constructivist Aid for Understanding and Using the Concept of Competence (2002, background): “This intuitive difference is supported by Herling (2000), who stated that competence refers to minimal efficiency, whereas expertise refers to optimal efficiency.”
• The effectiveness of managerial leadership development programs: a meta-analysis of studies from 1982-2001 (2004, background): “Organizations are now realizing that workplace expertise is crucial to maintaining optimal performance and adapting to change in today’s dynamic business world (Herling, 2000; Krohn, 2000).”