A Conceptual Model for Job Analysis of Incubator Managers Based on ONET Model

At present, there are about 5000 persons act as incubators managers all over the world. By supporting entrepreneurs and promoting entrepreneurship they help to reach job creation, leverage economic growth and provision of social welfare in their countries. Meanwhile, there are about 50 incubator managers working in Iran (about 1% of the population of Incubator managers of the world) which has lead Iran to be a suitable candidate for the current research. Although the managerial methods and techniques plays an important role and acts as a key performance index for the success of an incubator, but the personal character of the Incubator manager, as the head of the human resources in the organization, has also a great influence on performance of the employees activities and on the development of the incubators. So It could be considered that the differences and successes of various incubators in the world, intensively depends on its managers thoughts and attitudes. In the current paper, the characteristic of incubator managers has been analyzed Moreover, the job analysis of incubators managers could ease the process of electing managers and determine the requirements of the managers during their management life, leading improvements in productivity of the incubators. In the current paper, based on standard theoretical job analysis and design schemes, and using the Onet content model and Holland Code Career Model, we have evaluated the most important job elements of incubator's managers; specially 'Tasks', 'Skills', and 'Personality'. Moreover, in order to compare and analyze the gap between current and ideal state of the elements, a population of thirty Iranian incubator managers has been studied.