January 2020
TABLE 4. RESULTS - COMPETENCIES RANKED BY IMPORTANCE SURVEY RESULTS NO. Competencies Ranked By Importance SURVEY RESULTS NO.
Competencies Ranked By Importance
1
Reporting
10
Leadership
2
Communication
11
Research
3
Professional Demeanor
12
Problem Solving
4
Interaction
13
Decision Modeling
5
Marketing
14
Strategic Critical Thinking
15
Measurement
6
Leverage Technology
16
Industry Sector
7
Risk Analysis
8
Legal Regulatory
17
Resource Management
9
Project Management
18
International Global
Demographic Findings The results of multiple regression indicated gender correlated with the response to many of the Likert questions. Therefore, in order to determine if women tended to give a higher rating in general, t -tests were conducted between men and women for their responses to all competency questions and for their responses to categories of competencies questions. The results indicated that women tended, in general, to rate higher than men. However, in order to determine whether differences existed in the importance assigned to the categories of competencies between men and women, t -tests were conducted between two diferent categories of competencies, at a time, for women and for men. The results indicated that even though women tend to give a higher rating, no diference existed in how they would assign importance to the three categories of competencies when compared with men. The Importance of Critical Thinking Of concern, the data were mixed in support of critical thinking as an important competency. Instead of identifying strategic critical thinking as the most important business competency, auditors ranked it third, behind the marketing and legal/regulatory competencies. Respondents also gave relatively low rankings to competencies similar to strategic
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Defense ARJ, January 2020, Vol. 27No. 1 : 2-26
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