Competencies have been defined in a variety of different ways by the scientific community as well as the Human Resources field...

The use of Competency Based Interview Questions is becoming increasingly common and not just within the largest corporations...

An organization’s core competencies are the bread and butter of their business In Jerry Porras and Jim Collins "Built to Last" (a best selling US based blueprint for company success), both authors mention visionary companies as promulgators of the extraordinary, citing companies like Boeing who capitalized and made billions off commercial airliners during a time when competitor Douglas Aircraft balked...

In 2001 Watson Wyatt published its ongoing study of the linkages between specific Human Resource practices and shareholder value at 750 large publicly traded companies...

Do you find your company hiring employees for their technical skills and firing them for performance issues...

A competency model is a description of skills, knowledge and behaviors needed to perform a job or set of jobs effectively...