Competency Development in Organizations

Understanding Competencies in Workplace Performance and Organization Capability

Created by: Dr. Patrick Duffy
Organization Studies Expert

Created by: ORGMASTR .

What Will I Learn?

• Understand the concept of Competencies: reviewing variability through practice.
• Historical development of Competencies in the workplace: influences and approaches.
• What does it say in literature: exploring academic and research insights and evidence.
• Situating Competencies in organization design and its relationship with other features of job architecture.
• Evaluating Competency development for your organization: considerations and impacts.
• What are we looking for in Competencies? Key features of competency identification and value.
• Developing the business case for Competencies and organization capability development.
• Defining Competencies: developing a theoretical and practice-based definition.
• Creating a framework for Competency development and prioritization.
• Making Competencies: demonstrate, describe, document.
• Assessing Competencies: objectivity, individual and organization value, multi-methods.

Requirements

• This course can provide value for the following: Human Resources Organization Development Students (e.g., Org. Psych, HR), Researchers, Decision-makers, Assessors, Educators, Coaches
• Experience related to competencies in organizations assumed or for students in subject areas related to competencies.

Target audience

• Human Resources professionals seeking a deeper understanding of competencies, conceptually and for development and practice.
• Organization Development professionals, reviewing competency development and practice across academic, practitioner, and analytical foundations.
• Talent Management professionals wishing to gain a strategic and technical insight into supporting talent development and culture through competencies.
• Competency Assessors – internal and external specialists will benefit from a solid technical approach to the assessment process and considerations for practice and analytics.
• Students of Organization Psychology, Human Resources, Personnel Management – source of academic, research, and practice literature and insights for Competency theory and practice.
• Organization Design professionals wishing to expand on organization behavior theory and practice.
• Educators in Organization Psychology, Human Resources Management – a complementary resource for graduate and post-graduate curricula.
• Business Managers – developing an appreciation of competency development and frameworks as a feature of enhancing individual and organizational performance and capability.
• Business Managers – opportunity for knowledge development to support critical decision-making for human resources management and evaluating competency approaches