The main purpose of this study is to present a model of managers' competencies to create a competitive advantage in the organization and this research is a combination and the qualitative part is exploratory and the quantitative part is descriptive-survey and the qualitative data is collected through semi-structured interviews of 20 managers, experts and faculty members by purposeful and judgmental sampling method until theoretical saturation and To check the reliability of qualitative data, a sample of texts was given to another expert for coding and his coding results were compared with the researcher's coding. There was about 86% agreement between the two codings. In the quantitative part, research data were collected through a researcher-made questionnaire from 322 samples based on the Cochran method determined from the statistical population of the research, which included managers of industrial and manufacturing companies in Qazvin province. The results of the reliability of the questionnaire show that the calculated Cronbach's alpha coefficients in all cases is greater than 0.7. The research model is based on qualitative findings including the categories of individual competence with 30 concepts, interpersonal competence with 15 concepts, managerial competence with 18 concepts, professional competence of managers with 18 concepts, and the category of competitive advantage with 15 concepts identified and determined using Structural equations have been fitted and tested. Based on the results of the research, managers' competencies in the categories of individual and interpersonal, managerial and professional competencies of managers with specific concepts and sub-categories of each category are identified and their effects on the competitive advantage category are examined separately. The results show that they have a significant effect on competitive advantage in the organization.
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