Using Competency Models to Improve HRM

Abstract

Today's many organizations have found that the ability of their workforce is a key to gain competitive advantage and competency studies has gained more and more interest and attention. Competency is a combination of tacit and explicit knowledge, behavior and skills that gives someone the potential for effectiveness in task performance and Competency model is a narrative description of the competencies for a targeted job category, occupational group, division, department or other unit of analysis. Using of competency models in HRM Integrate HR activities. In fact, Competencies are the common link among the majority of human resource subsystems. The purpose of this study is the introduction of competency models and their contribution to promote human resource management practices in 4 Section. After an introduction in section 1, we review the competency concept in section 2, In section 3 the applications of competency models to HRM functions have explained and finally in section 4, we express Advantages of competency-based HR system.