Competency-based Performance Improvement

Competency-based Performance Improvement
Author: David D. Dubois
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780874252231

This important new book presents a systematic approach to analyzing and improving performance in organizations. The most promising approaches to systematic strategic needs analysis, competency model development, curriculum design, learning intervention design and development, and program evaluation are explained. The author shows, step-by-step, how best to implement competency-based performance improvement programs. In addition, case studies of three organizations (private and governmental) detail the actual experiences and benefits that these organizations realized in their performance improvement efforts.

The Competency Casebook

The Competency Casebook
Author: David D. Dubois
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1998
Genre: Competency based education
ISBN: 0874254256

Competencies, and human competence itself, are rapidly receiving well-deserved recognition as an essential, required element of business success. Without worker competence and supportive organizational practices and strategies, the strategic outcomes desired by organizations can not be realized. Competencies are helping organizations successfully cope with constant and rapid change. This valuable book contains 12 detailed case studies which provide a snapshot of how a variety of practitioners conceptualized, created, and implemented competency-driven performance improvement opportunities in their organizations. A variety of mechanisms and approaches are represented by cases drawn from organizations from both the manufacturing and service sectors. The cases include projects from areas such as leadership development, human resource practices, technical and professional training and development, and organization development.

The Executive's Guide to Competency-based Performance Improvement

The Executive's Guide to Competency-based Performance Improvement
Author: David D. Dubois
Publisher:
Total Pages: 140
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This easy-to-read and understand book will unravel the mysteries of competencies and core competence and how they are used to impact organization performance improvement. You'll get all of the basics in this quick read without wading through chapter after chapter of technical jargon. By reducing these otherwise difficult to understand terms to useful concepts in the organizational context, this concise and comprehensive resource will give you the base of knowledge you'll need to begin your organization's transformation to a high performance workplace. A brief organizational assessment and action planning guide is included at the end of each key chapter.

Competency-based Performance Reviews

Competency-based Performance Reviews
Author: Robin Kessler
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1564149811

Managers working in today's organizations often focus more on results than on the people who achieve those results. But regularly evaluating the performance of your employees is critical to improving the efficiency and output of your organization. Performance reviews have changed significantly in the past few years. Companies today are looking for the key characteristics, known as competencies, that help the most successful people in their field to be so successful. Managers and employees need to focus on those competencies, especially during performance review discussions.

Competency-Based Human Resource Management

Competency-Based Human Resource Management
Author: David D. Dubois
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2004-12-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0891062831

Why a focus on jobs is not enough Force-fitting employees to job descriptions leads to unhappy people and substandard performance. For years, HR professionals have struggled with this dilemma. But it doesn't have to be that way. Competency-Based Human Resource Management describes a new model of performance management that matches employee talents to the work that must be done. By focusing on the critical competencies that distinguish star performers, HR professionals can transform the way they recruit, select, train, develop, and compensate top-performing employees.

The Competency Toolkit

The Competency Toolkit
Author: David Dubois
Publisher: Human Resource Development
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780874255683

This user-friendly package contains the most innovative methods, procedures, suggestions, and materials available to help you identify competencies and create models, individual competency assessments, and individual development planning.