Policy Development Professional Competencies

Policy Development Professional Competencies

knowledge(theories)-

Identify policy development theories that are critical for entrepreneurs to know.

Of the five stages of growth in small businesses, policy development is established in the second phase, survival, and revisited throughout the next three phases as they evolve from inception through maturity (Bruce & Scott, 1987). Policy development theories such as the Advocacy Coalitions and the Institutional Analysis and Development framework and theories, Multiple-Streams, Policy Networks, Social Constructions, and Punctuated Equilibrium theories provide the structure for a framework of knowledge. These frameworks, composed of theories, outline the representations from which the organization derives its policies and governance (Sabatier & Weible, 2007).

skills-

A successful entrepreneur must radiate technical, behavioral, and subjective skills. The needs of the labor performed deliniates the specifically required proficiencies and whether they will be executed with individual, organizational, or sociological intent. When developing policies, these skills influence the behavior of the organizational culture, associate productivity with development, and endorse the ingemination and re-application of knowledge (Buchanan, 2010)

abilities-

Successful policy development requires the keen ability to devise an explanation and provide a prediction of and for the potential behavioral outcomes involving policy development. Polarizing scrutiny allows for the prognosis and diagnosis of policy components. The critical use of models to test, revise, and facilitate the exploration of the function of current policies is an imperative ability for a successful entrepreneur (Sabatier & Weible, 2007).

behaviors-

Behaviors, fueled by the basis of the achievement-reward exchange element, determine group interests and therefore constitute the foundation for stakeholder interest and policy development. Actions that foster the investment, improvement, expansion, and accuracy of policy ontogenesis, merge the interests of the stakeholders with the appetite of the shareholders and are the augur to success for an entrepreneur in the 21st century (Meier & Stiglitz, 2001).