1. A COMPETENCY APPROACH TO HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

2. What do we mean when we say “COMPETENCY” ?

3. COMPETENCY?
A Competency is an underlying characteristic of a person which enables him /her to deliver superior performance in a given job, role or a situation.

4. COMPETENCY?
Competencies are seen mainly as inputs. They consist of clusters of knowledge, attitudes and skills that affect an individual’s ability to perform.

5. COMPETENCY?
Hayes (1979) - Competencies are generic knowledge motive, trait, social role or a skill of a person linked to superior performance on the job.

6. COMPETENCY?
Albanese (1989) - Competencies are personal characteristics that contribute to effective managerial performance.

7. COMPETENCY?
UNIDO (2002)- A Competency is a set of skills, related knowledge and attributes that allow an individual to successfully perform a task or an activity within a specific function or job

8. What is Common in the definitions?
Competencies
underlying characteristic of a person
inputs.
clusters of knowledge, attitudes and skills
generic knowledge motive, trait, social role or a skill
personal characteristics
set of skills, related knowledge and attributes
Job
superior performance in a given job, role or a situation
individual’s ability to perform.
linked to superior performance on the job.
contribute to effective managerial performance
successfully perform a task or an activity within a specific function or job

9. COMPETENCY KNOWLEDGE Attribute Set of SKILLS Relates to information
Cognitive Domain
Attribute
Relates to qualitative aspects
personal Characteristics or traits
Set of SKILLS
Relates to the ability to do,
Physical domain
COMPETENCY
Outstanding Performance of tasks or activities

10. Behaviour Indicators
A Competency is described in terms of key behaviours that enables recognition of that competency at the work place.
These behaviors are demonstrated by excellent performers on-the-job much more consistently than average or poor performers. These characteristics generally follow the rule in that they include the key behaviors that primarily drive excellent performance.

11. Example of a Competency

12. Analytical Thinking
The ability to break problems into component parts and consider or organize parts in a systematic way; the process of looking for underlying causes or thinking through the consequence of different courses of action.

13. Key Behaviour Indicators
Independently researches for information and solutions to issues
Ability to know what needs to be done or find out (research) and take steps to get it done
Ask questions when not sure of what the problem is or to gain more information
Able to identify the underlying or main problem
Shows willingness to experiment with new things
Develops a list of decision making guidelines to help arrive at logical solutions

14. What is a Competency Model?

15. Competency Model
A competency model is a valid, observable, and measurable list of the knowledge, skills, and attributes demonstrated through behavior that results in outstanding performance in a particular work context.
Typically A competency model includes
Competency titles
Definitions of those titles
Key Behaviour indicators

16. Competency - Broad Categories
Generic Competencies
Competencies which are considered essential for all employees regardless of their function or level. - Communication, initiative, listening etc.
Managerial Competencies
Competencies which are considered essential for employees with managerial or supervisory responsibility in any functional area including directors and senior posts.

17. Competency - Broad Categories
Technical / Functional
Specific competencies which are considered essential to perform any job in the organisation within a defined technical or functional area of work. E.g.: Finance, environmental management,etc

18. COMPETENCY MODELING BEGINS THE PROCESS OF BUILDING TOOLS TO LINK EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE TO THE MISSION AND GOALS OF THE ORGANISATION

19. Why Competencies ?

20. Traditional Job Analysis Vs Competency Approach
Job Analysis leads to
long lists of tasks and the skills / knowledge required to perform each of those tasks
Data generation fromsubject matter experts; job incumbents
Effective Performance
Competency model leads to
a Distilled set of underlying personal characteristics
Data generation from outstanding performers in addition to subject matter experts and other job incumbents
Outstanding Performance

21. Distinguish Superior From Merely Satisfactory Performance
The approach allows executives and managers to make a distinction between a person's ability to do specific tasks at the minimum acceptable level and the ability to do the whole job in an outstanding fashion

22. Behaviour Indicators Based upon what outstanding individuals actually do
The competency definitions are based upon outstanding current performance in the organization. These competencies do not reflect someone's management theory or an academic idea of what it takes to do the job well, but rather are based on what works within the organization and most directly contributes to top performance.

23. The Competencies are Behaviour Specific
It is one thing, for example, to ask whether an employee "takes initiative," a very general concept, open to interpretation, but it is quite another to ask, "Was it typical of this manager to carry out tasks without your having to request that they be done?," a question which has only two answers, "Yes" and "No".

24. Holistic Application Competencies
help companies ‘raise the Bar’ of performance expectations
help teams and individuals align their behaviours with key organisational strategy
each employee understand how to achieve expectations

25. Alignment of HR systems
Recruitment and selection
Performance Management
Competency Model
Training & Development
Compensation

26. Competency based recruitment
Competency based interviews reduce the risk of making a costly hiring mistake and increase the likelihood of identifying and selecting the right person for the right job

27. Competency based Performance Appraisal
Competencies enable
establishment of clear high performance standards
Collection and proper analysis of factual data against the set standards.
Conduct of objective feedback meetings
direction with regard to specific areas of improvement

28. Competency based Training
Competency based appraisal process leading to effective identification of training needs
Opportunity to identify/ develop specific training programmes - Focused training investment
Focused Training enabling improvement in specific technical and managerial competencies

29. Competency based Development
Competencies
contribute to the understanding of what development really mean, giving the individual the tools to take responsibility for their own development
give the line managers a tool to empower them to develop people

30. Competency based Pay
Provide an incentive for employees to grow and enhance their capabilities

31. Methodology?

32. Steps in Model Building
Background information about the organisation
Decide on the Occupation / Job Position(s) that require competency Model(s)
Discuss the application of the competency model
Select a data collection method and plan the approach
Organize Data collected
Identify main themes or patterns
Build the model - Defining specific behaviour Indicators
Review the model

33. Data Collection Methods
Resource / Expert Panels
Structured process to get the participants (Job holders, managers HR / training staff) to think systematically about the job, skills and personal characteristics needed for success.
Critical Event Interviews
Structured interviews with superior performers which involves in-depth probing of a large number of events and experiences.

34. Data Collection Methods
Generic competency Dictionaries
Conceptual frameworks of commonly encountered competencies and behaviour indicators
Serve as a starting point to the model building team
Can be used in resource panel by asking the participants to select a set of generic competencies related to the job and rate the importance

35. Competency model building
A detailed approach

36. A Detailed Approach Info about the company
Decision on the job position(s)
Discussion on the CM application
Basic data collection on the job responsibilities(using customized menu)
Focus group
Review job description
understand performance criteria
Discuss specific behaviours
List top ten competencies

37. A Detailed Approach
Critical incident technique - interviewing top performers
incidents that lead to effective performance
incidents that lead to in effective performance
Discuss specific behaviours
List behaviours
List competencies

38. A Detailed Approach Content Analysis Group behaviours
Match behaviours to competencies using competency dictionary as a guideline
Evolve new set of competencies if any
Match behaviour indicators identified through CIT to the top 10 competencies identified by the focus group
Review the model and make corrections