Competencies: Alternative frameworks for competitive advantage

Cardy, Robert L.; Selvarajan, T.T.

doi:10.1016/j.bushor.2005.09.004

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“…Core competencies are a sum of organisation key organisational competencies that may be exploited to gain a competitive advantage. According to Cardy and Selvarajan [6], from a strategic management perspective, Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson [11] defi ne competencies as a combination of resources and capabilities. The combination of resources and capabilities in an organisation can be classifi ed as core competencies when they are valuable, rare, diffi cult to imitate, and diffi cult to substitute.…”

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“…A competency-based approach is one of the important tools of human resource management aimed at achieving strategic organisational goals [3], [25], [13], [6], [24], [27], [12]. In compliance with a resource-based approach to achieve a competitive advantage, it is necessary for organisations to identify, evaluate and develop key employee's competencies in order to achieve a competitive advantage [6], [20], [22].…”

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“…In compliance with a resource-based approach to achieve a competitive advantage, it is necessary for organisations to identify, evaluate and develop key employee's competencies in order to achieve a competitive advantage [6], [20], [22]. The application of competencies in the management process enables organisation's requirements and employee's opportunities to interlink in a way to permit their development in mutual harmony and ensure organisation's competitiveness in a market.…”

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Application of the competency-based approach in organisations in the Czech Republic

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“…[6] stated that while there is a consideration that the meaning of competency is universally understood, any effort to find a universal definition of competence will inevitably fail. Kouwenhoven [7] Competency is defined by many as an accumulation of knowledge, skills, and attitude [8][9][10]; though some may use a different set of wordings. Some of the different definitions by others are shown in Table 1.…”

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Competency based Education (CBE) for IT Security: Towards Bridging the Gap

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Ithnin

2012

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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Abstract-Skills gap is a common problem between university products and industry needs. This is apparent in many, if not all of the areas. The gap plays a role in the productivity or development of a given industry, as well as the unemployed rates. In a competitive world, employers are always looking for the best candidates for employment, with the best being defined as being competent both technically and professionally. We contend that competency based curriculum can provide a means to narrow and even close the skills gap. In this paper, we present a Competency Based Curriculum Model that can be used as a guide to develop a competency based curriculum. This model will be employed to develop a competency based curriculum for IT Security Engineers.

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“…And, the competency is a measurable pattern of knowledge, skill, abilities, behaviors, and other characteristics that an individual needs to perform work roles or occupational functions successfully [11]. Competency is defined as one's characteristics that can differentiate significantly between effective and ineffective performance [12]. Competency is suggested as more precise definition that describes competency as work-related personal attributes; knowledge, skills, and values that individuals draw upon to do their work well [13].…”

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Framework and Items for Measuring End-User Computing Competency with a Case Study

Yoon¹

2014

IJCTE

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Abstract-The end-user computing capability is necessitated for efficiently performing his or her given tasks and improving his or her business performance in an computing environment. A measurement framework and items of an end-user computing competency is extracted from the major components of a general computing competency. Through a survey measurement of 287 respondents, this study performed factor and reliability analyses, and proposed a 15-item framework that can examine an end-user computing competency in an organizational computing environment. The application of the measure is confirmed by applying it to measuring the computing competency of the end-users in a firm computing environment and by presenting the measurement results for them.Index Terms-End-User computing, competency, framework, measurement items. I. INTRODUCTIONIn a computer system environment, the end-users use their computing systems for performing the end-users' given tasks. In this environment, we can think that their computing ability have an effect on the performance of their tasks in a computing environment. Hence, this research considers the measures to efficiently examine the end-user computing ability and improve it for raising his or her business completion and the competitiveness of an enterprise. But the researches on the measurement of the end-user computing ability have not actively executed, and these studies focus on specific software skills, professional skills, and operational skills and so on [1]- [3]. For the end-users effectively accomplish their tasks in a computing environment, they have to be qualified with not fragmentary computing skills but the total computing ability including the concepts, knowledge, application, and experience departments. The measurement scale suitable for examining end-user computing ability in a whole computing capability perspective are very important to effectively manage and improve the computing capability that an end-user can efficiently execute the given tasks in a computing environment. That is, the computing capability of an end-user is a critical factor to raise his or her business execution and results, and it also connects with a firm management performance.Therefore, this study presents a measurement framework Manuscript received August 26, 2013; revised October 20, 2013. The research was supported by a grant from the Academic Research Program of Korea National University of Transportation in 2013.Chui Young Yoon is with the Department of IT Applied-Convergence, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungbuk, 368-701, South Korea (e-mail: yoon0109@ut.ac.kr).and items scale for gauging a perceived end-user computing competency to efficiently perform his or her business tasks in a firm of computing environment. II. END-USER COMPUTING COMPETENCY A. Concepts of End-User ComputingIn previous literature, most of studies define that the end-user is an individual who directly interacting with his or her computer [4]- [6]. End-user computing refers to direct interaction with applic...

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Competencies: Alternative frameworks for competitive advantage

Cited by 137 publications

References 11 publications

Application of the competency-based approach in organisations in the Czech Republic

Application of the competency-based approach in organisations in the Czech Republic

Competency based Education (CBE) for IT Security: Towards Bridging the Gap

Framework and Items for Measuring End-User Computing Competency with a Case Study

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