Focus shifts to behaviors

One of the hottest corporate management subjects today is competency modeling - an attempt to determine the knowledge, skills, abilities, and even traits and motivations critical to achieving strategic objectives. Some businesses are using competency modeling to identify the baseline or minimum requ...

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Published inGetting Results ... for the Hands - On Manager Vol. 40; no. 6; p. 1
Format Trade Publication Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Saranac Lake American Management Association 01.06.1995
Subjects
Design
Human resource management
Human resources
Interviews
Managers
Organizational behavior
Professionals
Skills
Success
Succession planning
Task analysis
Training
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ISSN1088-4343

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Summary:One of the hottest corporate management subjects today is competency modeling - an attempt to determine the knowledge, skills, abilities, and even traits and motivations critical to achieving strategic objectives. Some businesses are using competency modeling to identify the baseline or minimum requirements in any functional area or job, but most organizations are using the technique to identify what makes a superperformer. As part of the process, exemplary performers are interviewed to determine what characteristics are behind their success. Then average performers are interviewed, and the data are compared.
ISSN:1088-4343