Competence

Organizations must have the capability to meet changing needs. In current parlance this is often expressed in terms of competences - skills, knowledge and abilities. These are qualities possessed by the people who work for those organizations. Competences can be brought into businesses through the recruitment of skilled individuals. They can also be developed within existing people by investing in training, education and experiential programmes.

See also:

Appraisals
Assessment Centres
Balanced Scorecard
Behavioural Compliance
Benchmarking
Best Practice
Behavioural Consistency
Business Process Reengineering
Centralization
Change
Change Strategy
Communication
Competitive Advantage
Comprehensiveness
De-layering
Division of Labour
Divisional Structure
Personality
Downsizing
Performance Assessment
Performance Management
Talent Management

Based on the glossary section of Human Resource Management, 4th edition.

HRM Textbooks

Human Resource Management, 4th edition
by Alan Price
 Covers all the key aspects of HRM. Available from:
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
 Shortened version of Human Resource Management - concise analysis for non-specialists and one-semester courses.
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