Competency Mapping What is Competency?

Competency is an underlying skill, personal characteristics, or motive demonstrated by various observable behaviors that contribute to outstanding performance in a job. Competencies exist at different levels of personality. The various levels are:

Knowledge Skills Behavior Personal Characteristics o o Traits Motive

What is Competency Mapping?

Competency mapping involves the determination of the extent to which the person possesses the various competencies related to a job. For Ex: The extent to which a person is adjustable, resourceful, capable of working efficiently under stress, capable of anticipating threats, finding solutions and contributing in innovations. Which is then compared with the extent to which the various competencies are required for a job? The comparison enables us to know the suitability of a person for a job. So this too is used for setting standards and checking the employees standing on the various competencies platform and further, the training needs of a person can also be identified.

A company can save a lot of cost on training by efficiently using knowledge management. A person may be perfect in one aspect and may lack in others, if the knowledge in which a person in a master is shared by all, then that will reduce the cost of training. At least it can make the person aware about the new concepts, which he is totally unaware.

A MODEL FOR COMPETENCY MAPPING

Heads of Functional Departments

Finance / Marketing / Personnel / Technical / others

Heads of the Functional Departments explain in detail what all compentencies should an employee possess and to what degree

HR Department designs such a performance appraisal method, which checks the competencies possessed by the employee and to what degree Comparison
Competencies requirements given by various heads Self rating by employee on each competency

Inputs from functional heads defining to what extent an employee possesses a competency

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