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Understanding the concept of competency is a prerequisite to understanding his integrated model of management.
Competent manager (1982)
The study resulted in a model of competence, not merely a laundry list of characteristics.
Competent manager (1982)
A competency is an underlying characteristic of the person that leads to or causes effective or superior performance.
Competent manager (1982)
At the core of every manager’s job is the requirement to make things happen toward a goal or consistent with a plan. Managers need to set goals and initiate actions to achieve them.
Competent manager (1982)
A threshold competency is a person's generic knowledge, motive, trait, self image, social role, or skill which is essential to performing a job, but is not causally related to superior job performance.
Competent manager (1982)
Skill is a property of a person; it is a person's ability to demonstrate a system and sequence of behaviour that [is] functionally related to attaining a performance goal.
Competent manager (1982)
The result of a job element analysis is a weighted list of characteristics that managers perceive as important in distinguishing superior from average performers, and those characteristics required by anyone in the job.
Competent manager (1982)
An underlying characteristic of a person in that it may be a motive, trait, skill, aspect of one’s self-image or social role, or a body of knowledge which he or she uses... a person’s competencies reflect his or her capability. They are describing what he or she can do, not necessarily what he or she does, nor does all the time regardless of the situation and setting.
Competent manager (1982)