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5th Lecture
Temat: Competency management
as an important element
of Human Resource Management
Agnieszka Knap-Stefaniuk
MBA, Ph.D.
AGENDA:
Introduction
Competence - introduction
Competence - definitions
Competences and qualifications
The components of competence
Types of competence
Social, functional and business competences
Stages of competence development
AGENDA:
Methods of competence development
Competency Management
Stages of competency management
Competency management functions
Factors affecting the management competence
Identification of functional competencies
Identification and evaluation of individual competences
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Reading list
Supplementary reading list:
9. Dennis Briscoe, Randall Schuler, Ibraiz Tarique, International Human Resource
Management: Policies and Practices for Multinational Enterprises (Global HRM),
4th Edition, Routledge 2011
10. Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem, The Big Book of HR, (1st edition) , Career
Press 2012
11. Wayne Cascio, Managing Human Resources, (9th Edition), McGraw-Hill
Education 2012
12. Gary Dessler, A Framework for Human Resource Management (7th Edition),
Prentice Hall 2012
13. Stephen P. Robbins, Timothy A. Judge, Organizational Behavior (15th Edition),
Prentice Hall 2012
14. Joan E. Pynes, Human Resources Management for Public and Nonprofit
Organizations: A Strategic Approach, 4th Edition; Jossey-Bass 2013
15. Robert L. Mathis, John H. Jackson, Sean R. Valentine, Study Guide for
Mathis/Jackson/Valentine's Human Resource Management, 14th Edition, SouthWestern College Pub 2013
Lecture 5 - Introduction
Lecture 3 concerns issues connected with competency
management as an important element of Human Resource
Management in the contemporary organizations.
During the lecture you will learn answers to the following questions:
What are the competences?
What are the ingredients of competences?
What types of competences can you distinguish?
What are the stages of competence development?
What is competency management?
What are the stages and functions of competency management?
What factors affect the competency management in the contemporary
organizations?
Competency management
as an important element
of Human Resource Management
Competencies - introduction
Already Frederick Taylor wrote about competences
(Principles of Scientific Management, 1911). At first
mainly managerial skills were discussed (at present skills
are treated as one of essential elements of competence).
Almost from the beginning of the research on sources of
the professional effectiveness, it was assumed that the
qualities of employees such as intelligence,
temperament, morality or charisma influence their
occupational activity, as well as their success or failure.
Competences - equated with skills - were also noticed in
the research on behaviours of leaders, although for a
long time it was mainly personality features that were
studied.
Competencies - definitions
In other definitions researchers explain:
Competencies relate to an education, experience and skills,
talents and predispositions and (other) psychophysical
features, such as behaviour expected by the employer, and
important in the workplace. (T. Oleksyn)
Competencies include knowledge used at work, experience,
abilities and predispositions to work in a team towards
attaining company goals, ability to act professionally, ethical
cultural values.(A. Sajkiewicz)
Competencies can be defined as a set of behaviours which
are learnt better by some people, which means that in a given
situation those people act more effectively"(C.Levy-Leboyer)
Competencies denote a cluster of behaviours which are
essential for appropriate performance of tasks and functions.
(Ch. Woodruffe)
Types of Competency
In specialist literature different classifications of
competency are described:
Professional competencies, characteristic for various
professions.
Organisational, management, employee, social and
technological competencies (they include knowledge
and collective memory, as well as outside licences
or patents).
Functional competencies, job-specific competencies
that drive high-performance, quality results for a
given position.
Individual competencies:
Real (that an employee already has),
Potential (that an employee can gain).
Factors Influencing
Competency Management
Competency management is conditioned both by internal and
external factors:
Main internal factors affecting competency management
include: the quality of management, the quality of regulations
concerning work and pay, the type of organisational culture,
personnel department competencies, the quality of
communication in the company, the flexibility of employment,
the mission statement and the strategy of a company, the size
of a company and the quality of its social potential.
External factors affecting competency management include:
availability and cost of education and external training, the
quality of competency management in other companies, the
state of the external labour market, economic policy, legal and
tax systems.