...STUDY A STUDY ON COMPETENCY MAPPING Aakash D. Patel ABSTRACT: Competency mapping is a process of identifying key competencies for a particular position in an organization, and then using it for job-evaluation, recruitment, training and development, performance management, succession planning, etc. Competency based talent management can improve both productivity and performance by identifying key characteristics of top performers and how those traits differ from average employees. These characteristics in turn can filter in a set of core competency profile that consistently leads to successful workforce. Thus the HR department should be alerted about the need for competency mapping & this process of competency mapping should be carried out in the organization on the regular basis both for the benefit of employees and for the organization. KEY WORDS: Competency, Competency Mapping, Employee, Growth, and Gap INTRODUSCTION Competencies refer to skills or knowledge that lead to greater performance. These are formed through an individual and organization’s knowledge, skills and abilities and provide a framework for distinguishing between poor performances through to exceptional performance. Competencies can apply at organizational, individual, team, and occupational and functional levels. Competencies are individual abilities or characteristics that are key to effectiveness in work. Competencies are the characteristics of an employee that lead to...
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...Y T. M I L A N O W S K I Research has established the link between HR practices and organizational performance, suggesting that the HR system has great strategic potential to drive organizational effectiveness. To capitalize on this potential, the organization must design and deliver HR practices that focus on necessary employee performance competencies, creating an HR system with vertical and horizontal alignment around those competencies. Doing this requires that the organization first assess how its HR practices are currently aligned and then develop ideas for improving HR practice that will be alignment enhancing. We call this diagnostic process Human Resource Alignment (HRA) assessment. We describe an HRA assessment process we developed and applied in a large public school district for the key job of teacher. The assessment was based on the district’s formal teacher performance competency model used, and was conducted by a group of human resources and instructional job experts from the district. These experts rated the degree of vertical and horizontal alignment and then developed suggestions for HR practice changes that would improve alignment. After describing the process and results, we present a series of lessons learned and directions for future research. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Keywords: strategic human resource management, human resource alignment assessment Introduction S trategic human resource management (hereafter strategic HRM) theory centers...
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...Class 7 Compensating Employees Fairly Three basic principles to make decisions concerning salary * Internal job consistency: compensation must reflect the of a job compared to other jobs wthin the organization, in terms of required qualifications, responsabilities, effort and working conditions * External salary competitiveness: salaries a company offers must be comparable to those offered by its competitors * Employee motivation and mobilization: compensation must be motivating in order to encourage performance and loyalty Manager’s Role: * To understand compensation principles * To possess adequate knowledge of the positions managed * To ensure equity, an important factor in compensation decisions Objectives of compensation * As a major HR tool, compensation aims: * To attract * To motivate * To retain employees Building a compensation Program Legal Context Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Pay Equity Act to correct salary differences caused by systemic discrimination Pay Equity Act to correct salary differences caused by systemic discrimination Labour standards act Labour standards act Labour standards act Labour standards act * Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom Employee A<-> Equal salary for equal or equivalent work <-> employee B * Pay equity Act (for organizations with more...
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...The Faculty of Business and Economics THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE Assignment Cover Sheet Student Name: Yu Liu Student Number: 608338 Subject Number: MGMT90140 Subject Name: Management Competencies Lecture day/time (Monday/ Tuesday/Wednesday/ Thursday) : Wednesday Assignment number: Final profile Word Count: 2680 IMPORTANT: Make and keep a copy of all assignments before submitting them for assessment; Marked essays will be returned in seminars unless your lecturer makes other arrangements. Plagiarism Plagiarism is the act of representing as one's own original work the creative works of another, without appropriate acknowledgment of the author or source. Collusion Collusion is the presentation by a student of an assignment as his or her own which is in fact the result in whole or in part of unauthorised collaboration with another person or persons. Collusion involves the cooperation of two or more students in plagiarism or other forms of academic misconduct. Both collusion and plagiarism can occur in group work. For examples of plagiarism, collusion and academic misconduct in group work please see the University’s policy on Academic Honesty and Plagiarism: http://academichonesty.unimelb.edu.au Plagiarism and collusion constitute cheating. Disciplinary action will be taken against students who engage in plagiarism and collusion as outlined in University policy. Proven involvement in plagiarism or collusion may be recorded on my academic file in accordance with Statute 13...
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...skills learning programmes. For our purposes we conducted a literature search using popular medical databases and terms such as ‘acute skills’ ‘learning programmes’ and ‘critical care learning’. Our review highlights on the several important approaches to work based learning ranging from reflective practice to experiential learning and work based formal practical training to enhance professional skills. A learning programme for acute ward nurses responsible for caring of critically ill patients has been the central focus of nursing practice development. According to Coad et al (2002), a work-based learning approach has been found to empower ward staff with the necessary skills of nursing and the authors studied the efficacy of a five-day competency based high dependency skills course in enhancing professionalism and quality of care in nursing. The aims of comprehensive critical care are developing leadership potential and enhancing networking opportunities for nurses within critical care and acute ward areas. Critical care is the most challenging aspect of nursing care and acute skills in nursing are enhanced not just by work-based learning programs but also from first hand nursing and emergency experiences. Titchen (2003) describes emergency care in which one professional learns from another as ‘critical companionship’ that serve as a framework for learning from practical healthcare experiences. Critical companionship describes the essence of caring and helping relationship in...
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...Learning and Competencies After reviewing my results from the personality spectrum profile and competency results I can honestly say the results did not surprise me. The reason it didn’t surprise me because I already knew that I a type of person who needs people surrounding me. I’m not must of a leader, growing up I always did better worker with a group. Even when I’m at work I’m a people person so again I do better with a group of people. I wasn’t even surprise when the results said I’m an organizer. I always had to have everything in order, even now I require have certain things in order. I have a chart at home I have setup for my family so they can stay organized too. Everything work so much better when I’m organized. One way I can alter my study techniques is to take advantage of my strongest abilities found in my personality spectrum and competency. That would be that I’m Organizer and Interpersonal. So when I study sometimes I must have someone study with me and it has to be organize on flash cards or even a chart. Since I started the University of Phoenix I realize that flash cards and having a chart has help me out dealing with two classes. I also learn that printing out my assignment for each week and putting them in files label by week has help me keep my assignment organized. Knowing my abilities and competencies from My Career Plan will help me prepare for my professional environment, because it shows me my abilities for strongest to weakness. It shows...
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...your leadership skills. Learn what areas you can improve to become a more effective transformational leader. Increase your impact with self, others, teams, and organizations. Name of Participant: Sample Tester Date of Assessment: 2011-09-30 by Terry D. Anderson, Ph.D., with Ken Keis, M.B.A. Published by Consulting Resource Group Canada: PO Box 418 Main, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6Z7 * USA: PO Box 8000 PMB 386, Sumas WA, 98295-8000 Website: www.crgleader.com © 1990-2011, CRG Consulting Resource Group International, Inc. All rights reserved. This material is protected by law and may not be reproduced in any form. Printed from http://www.crgleader.com 2 of 16 Online Leadership Skills Inventory - Self (LSI-S) © 1990-2011 Consulting Resource Group Professional Development and Planning Section Why Become a Transforming Leader? Skilled Leaders are critical to the success level of any venture, both profit and non-profit. This was validated in the research Jim Collins and his team conducted for his book, Good to Great. They confirmed that the most successful organizations had skilled Transforming Leaders at the helm. (Jim Collins called them Level 5 Leaders.) Our research, however, has shown that fewer than 1 in 10 professionals (as observed in video-taped assessment sessions) have competency in the whole range of skills to Level 4 competency (scores of 7 to 8). And even fewer individuals have the abilities—Level 5 competency, scores of 9 to 10—to teach others the skills...
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...Group Communication Competencies Survey and Summary SOC/110 August 17, 2015 Group Communication Competencies Survey and Summary Part 1 On a 5-point scale, where 5 is “extremely important” and 1 is “not at all important,” rate the following types of group competencies in terms of their importance for becoming a highly effective group member. Circle (or highlight) one number for each item. Part 2 When you are finished, write a 350- to 525-word summary of your results and ways to improve your competency. You may write your summary at the bottom of this document, or in another Word document. Member and Group Competencies | Extremely Important | Very Important | Somewhat Important | Not Very Important | Not at All Important | 1. Understand the group communication process. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2. Reduce your nervousness when speaking in a discussion or meeting. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3. Understand, respect, and adapt to diverse group members. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4. Communicate openly and ethically. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5. Carry out critical task roles, by asking questions and summarizing ideas, and social roles, by encouraging and supporting members. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6. Influence group members to change their attitudes and behavior. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 7. Use and interpret nonverbal communication effectively. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8. Develop clear group goals. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9. Listen appropriately and effectively...
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...Alvernia University Ethnicity Matters: The Experiences of Minority Groups in Public Health Programs Abstract This article reviews the views and opinions of African Americans, Caucasians, and Latinos who are low-income as it relates to their opinions and experiences in health care. Emphasis is placed on cultural competency and how satisfied each ethnicity rated their health care experience. Ethnicity Matters: The Experiences of Minority Groups in Public Health Programs This article was chosen for many reasons. It holds an important position in regards to continuity of care and satisfaction of resources from three different racial groups. It is an ongoing debate of how each racial...
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... | | |Emotional Intelligence | Copyright © 2010, 2009, 2006, 1997 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course examines the concepts and practical applications of emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage one's own internal emotional environment and one's ability to participate in relationships with others. Through a highly interactive format, the course will focus on how to assess basic skills in emotional intelligence, how to develop strategies to improve and enhance basic skill levels, and how to experiment with techniques that facilitate dealing with others of varying emotional backgrounds and competency levels. Policies Students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality....
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...thought. Doctoral faculty often insist that doctoral learners may not rely upon personal opinion when reaching conclusions. Rather, learners must support their ideas and opinions with scholarly evidence and be able to generalize their findings. As previously stated, one way to advance scholarly thought is through interaction in a learning cohort. Another way to advance scholarly thought includes reading scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications and supporting ideas with citations from these publications. Another way to promote scholarly thought is to participate in a community of practice. According to Wenger, McDermott, and Snyder (2002), a community of practice is a group of individuals with a shared quest and interests, who interact regularly to improve their learning. A community of practice is not simply a group of individuals with surface commonality: people who share the same taste in music or like the same type of movies have. Members of a...
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...CHAPTER 15: COMPETENCY-BASED PAY Overview: This chapter looks at pay based on competencies, the knowledge, skills, and abilities that make employees valuable to an organization. INTRODUCTION The distinguished Management educator, Ed Lawler, in an article looking back at the dot-com era and its implications for the future of Compensation Administration concludes that this era "accelerated an inevitable move from focusing on paying individuals for the job they do to paying individuals for the skills knowledge and competencies they have."1 This is not the only article that states that paying for the person would replace paying for the job in the future. There was a whole rash of articles in the late 1980's to the mid 1990's that carried the same theme. It is significant that since then there has not been more attention paid to this idea. Competency pay is a fancy term given to the idea of paying for the person rather than the job. In fact, very few compensation plans pay for only one thing. As discussed in the first chapter of this text, pay can be based upon the job, the person or their performance, and most systems are combinations of all three. The real questions are which one will be the base platform for the other two and what weight will each have in the decision of how much to pay the individual. The past chapter focused upon a compensation system based upon the job. In the chapters that follow this one, we will examine how factors relating to the person and to his or...
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...Individual Report Analysis and Critical Discussion of Competencies Based on CVF Framework Student ID: 3472503 Student Name: Xiaoli Sun Lecturer: Dr. Margaret Heffernan, O. A. M Tutor: Ashkan Khalili Due Date: 7th June 2015 Executive Summary As the Competing Values Framework (CVF) has been considered as an important construct for management in a business, managers use CVF to guide and examine employees’ performance. This report will take advantage of three tools: First, CVF Instrument, to examine current competencies like communicating and leading teams and competencies require further development like setting goals; the next two are Communication Styles Survey and Situational Leadership Style Questionnaire to find out strong skills like driver style and delegating style, and weak style like amiable style and coaching style. Then, related theories and concepts will be applied and interpreted to analyse the examined current competencies and skills and how to develop them further based on academic researches and articles. In this report, face negotiation theory, transformational theory and goal-setting theory are mainly used to have a detailed explanation about the competencies. Finally, a personal action plan will be made aimed to improving the weak competencies. Key words: CVF framework, Face negotiation theory,...
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...Nicole DeMase Emerging Standards of Care Paper December 15, 2014 Donna Rose Nur/531 Emerging Standards of Care Paper A growing problem in the United States is the increase in health disparities amongst minorities regardless that the United States is a multicultural country. This problem is due to the poor quality and accessibility of health care services. As the population of diversity continues to grow rapidly so does the importance of cultural competence in healthcare. Cultural competence is a set of behaviors, attitudes, and skills that enables nurses to work effectively in cross-cultural situations ("Cultural Competence", 2014). Organizations must have the capacity to value diversity, conduct self-assessment, manage the dynamics of difference, institutionalize cultural knowledge and adapt to the diversity and the cultural context of the communities they serve. The Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (OMHSAS) stated that inequities in service delivery and care in the health care system are associated with discrimination, and a lack of culturally competent practices, including a lack of cultural awareness and sensitivity by health care providers (Upsher, n.d). Substance abuse is defined as a chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite harmful consequences ("The Science Of Drug Abuse And Addiction: The Basics", 2014). This paper will discuss and define the appropriateness of competent...
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...SMART Goals Part A: Reflect on your results from the Career Interest Profiler Activity and the Career Plan Building Activity: Competencies. Building on your strengths and weaknesses, create five SMART goals to help you with your personal academic and career journey. Resource: University of Phoenix Material: Goal Setting Example: Take a writing workshop in the next 2 to 3 weeks to help me improve my writing skills in order to successfully communicate with others. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Part B: Evaluate your SMART goals according to the SMART criteria. Provide support for your evaluation. Goal S Is the goal specific? M Is the goal measurable? A Is the goal attainable? R Is the goal realistic? T Is the goal timely? Example: Take a writing workshop in the next 2 to 3 weeks to help me improve my writing skills in order to successfully communicate with others. Yes I will take a workshop to improve my writing skills. Yes I will measure my goal by whether I complete the workshop. Yes Writing workshops are offered on a weekly basis by University of Phoenix. Yes I would have extra time to take the workshop. Yes Two to three weeks is enough time to complete a writing workshop. Goal 1: Get back into drawing to improve my drawing skills within the next 1 month. Yes I will be start looking up ideas so I can have something in mind to draw. Yes I will learn how to clear my mind and create things. Yes Drawing class is offered...
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