The purpose of the current study was to explore Indonesian international relations office managers perspectives on management competencies. The study was conducted utilizing constructivist grounded theory methods and a constructivist viewpoint. . The participants in this study were current managers of foreign offices in Indonesian universities; the sample comprised of international office managers both from public and private universities, as well as small and large universities in terms of student population. Results also shows that; what makes a competent international office manager is a mix of core and professional competences that can make a manager standout “relativity similar to (Pham et al., 2019)”. meritocracy and nepotism are in balance when it comes to the nomination and selection of the IOMs, plus managed to create a job description that emerged from the participants’ experiences, the international relations office in Indonesian HEIs is considered a middle unit below vice rectors, a model was created to perceive the competencies ought to be in a competent international office manager. The author urges a review of the internationalization strategy on the national level; the current one is just a general guideline and does not cover or manage the complexity of the current scene.
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