Competency Mapping

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The key takeaways are that competency refers to the underlying characteristics required to perform a job successfully, such as knowledge, skills and attitudes. Competency mapping is the process of identifying the competencies needed to perform a job or role.

Competency mapping is the process of identifying the skills, knowledge and abilities required to successfully perform a job or role. It is important as it helps create accurate job profiles, improves recruitment and performance, and provides transparency for employees.

Competencies can be identified by experts, HR specialists, job analysts and psychologists in consultation with line managers, current and past role holders, supervisors and subordinates.

CompetencyMapping

What is Competency?
 Any underlying characteristic required for performing a
given task, activity, or role successfully can be considered
as competency

 Competency may take the following forms: knowledge,


attitude, skill, other characteristics of an individual
including: motives, values, etc.
What is Competency Mapping?
 Competency mapping is the process of identification of
the competencies required to perform successfully a
given job or role or aset of tasks at agiven point of time

 Itconsists of breaking agiven role or job into its


constituent tasks or activities and identifying the
competencies (technical, managerial, behavioral,
conceptual knowledge, attitudes, skills, etc.) needed to
perform the same successfully
Why? - Micro View (1)
 When the competency required is mapped, an accurate
job profile is created
 Withan accurate profile the entire recruitment process
becomes easier and effective
 The candidates who applies is well aware of what the
position demands
 The interviewer know exactly what to look for in the
candidate
 Once recruited, employee perform well as they know
what is exactly required from them
Why? - Micro View (2)
 Employee understands the growth within the company as
the hierarchy and requirement is clearly defined for all
the positions
 Helps employee to align his efforts in the direction of the
company's requirement.
 Overall,it brings adegree of transparency and motivates
the employee
Why? - Macro level
STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK COMPETENCY MODELING
FRAMEWORK

Organizational Strategy
Core Competencies Stakeholder Interest
Vision, Mission, Values, Strategic,
Intent, Corporate Governance, (Organizational wide) Market Positioning
Corporate Social Responsibility & Ethics

Business Strategy Achieving Business Targets


Business Plan & Goals, Culture Business Competencies
Employee Satisfaction
People, Technology

Teamwork Strategy
Leadership, Communication Team Competencies Profit Center Orientations
Conflict Management, Interpersonal (Project driven) Team Development & Synergy
Skills, Project Orientation, Self
Managed Teams (SMT)

Role Strategy
Ability, Autonomy, Multiskilling, Performance Accomplishment
Role Competencies
Task identity, Performance (Role wise)
Evaluation & rewards and performance Individual Development
development
Who does?
 Competencies can be identified by one of more of the
following category of people: Experts, HR Specialists, Job
analysts, Psychologists, Industrial Engineers etc. in
consultation with: Line Managers, Current & Past Role
holders, Supervising Seniors, Reporting and Reviewing
Officers, Internal Customers, Subordinates of the role
holders and Other role set members of the role (those
who have expectations from the role holder and who
interact with him/her)
Methods used for Competency Mapping
 The various methods used in combination for
competency mapping
 Interviews
 Group work
 Task Forces
 Task Analysis workshops
 Questionnaire
 Use of Job descriptions
 Performance Appraisal Formats etc.
Steps
 First: A job analysis is carried out by asking employees to
fill in aquestionnaire that asks them to describe what
they are doing, and what skills, attitudes and abilities they
need to have to perform it well

 Second: Having discoveredthe similarities in the


questionnaires, acompetency-based job description

 Third:Having agreed on the job requirements, one starts


mapping the capability of the employees to the
benchmarks
Application
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