Academicians Viewpoint on Port Managers Prior Competencies in terms of Environmental Sustainability Performance of Container Port Enterprises in Turkey

Abstract

Ports regard sustainability as of great importance in their efforts to sustain their corporate feature aiming to use resources effectively and comply with the environment and the society in which they are located. The activities an organization carries out its sustainability performance. Full compliance of this performance with the relevant natural and biological environment is greatly important. That's why the main point discussed in this study is the environmental sustainability performance of the port enterprises. As the competencies of port managers pay an important role in this performance, this study aims to scrutinize and evaluate these competencies of port operation managers in particular. To determine these competencies, a three-step Delphi technique has been used. This technique has been conducted through an expert group of 13 academicians. The results revealed 15 competency items. The identified competencies are believed to contribute to the effective process of selecting/employing managers in port organizations which will ensure corporate sustainability.

Evaluating Port Operation Managers’ Competencies Related to the Port Environmental Sustainability Performance

“…Competency studies in terms of manager characteristics started with Boyatzis's (1982) study. Following this, to identify manager competencies in general, many studies have been made (Chong, 2008 (Tezcan & Kuleyin, 2019) of the authors of this study, made an effort to identify the port manager competencies in terms of ports' sustainability performance and reached 15 competency criteria (see Table 1). This study is complementary to that previous study, and it could fill the gap in the literature regarding which competencies really POMs need concerning an environmentally sustainable port.…”

“…The competencies that were evaluated in this study are those 15 that determined via a Delphi process in a previous study of the authors (Tezcan & Kuleyin, 2019). These competency criteria were distributed into four clusters according to Viitala's (2005) 'hierarchical model of management competencies' (see Table 3).…”

Tedari̇k Zi̇nci̇ri̇nde Kuru Dökme Ve Genel Yük Termi̇nalleri̇: Ali̇ağa İçi̇n Bi̇r Delphi Çalişmasi

“…Port business studies in the scope of Delphi research were reviewed. Some examples from sample sizes in port business studies that employed Delphi research can be given as; 14 experts (Göçer et al, 2019); 13 experts (Tezcan and Kuleyin, 2019), 43 experts (Alghaffari et al, 2018), 46 participants (Chen and Pak, 2017); 14 experts (Altuntaş Vural et al, 2015), 12 participants (Emiroğlu and Özer Çaylan, 2014); 22 experts (Da Cruz et al, 2013), and 8 experts (Karataş Çetin and Cerit, 2010). As Karataş Çetin and Cerit (2010) pointed out, port business is a unique area and there are limited number of experts with sufficient time to contribute to such studies.…”