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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 5/e
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Fundamentals of Human Resource Management, 5/e

by Gary Dessler
January 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
32h 52m
English
Pearson
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Using Competencies Models

Learning Objective 7

  1. Explain how to write competency-based models.

Many people still think of a “job” as a set of specific duties someone carries out for pay, but the concept of job is changing. Companies today are flattening their hierarchies, squeezing out managers, and leaving the remaining workers with more jobs to do. Changes like these tend to blur where one job starts and another ends. In situations like these, relying on a list of job duties that itemizes specific things you expect the worker to do is often impractical. 51

Many employers are therefore using a newer job analysis approach. Instead of listing the job’s duties, they are listing, in competency models (or profiles), the knowledge, skills, and experience ...

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ISBN: 9780134740218