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A Practical Guide to Competencies
How to enhance individual and organisational performance

2nd Edition
Published: October 2003
Pages: 160
Price: £26.99
Members: £24.29
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ISBN: 1843980126
ISBN13: 9781843980124
 
 

Product information

Description

Improving performance is the number one goal of any manager. This book explains how you can create and implement competencies frameworks that will help you improve performance levels within your organisation.
The text demonstrateshow through using competencies you can:
- make your recruitment processes more successful to establish the crucial match between job candidates and the demands of the role
- manage employees' performance more effectively to provide performance benchmarks and identify those employees with potential
- to both design a more appropriate training and development programme to identify learning needs, and improve motivation by clarifying the link between pay and performance.

Contents

What do we Mean by 'Competencies'?
A Typical Competency Framework
Developing Competency Frameworks
Using Competencies in Selection
Using Competencies to Review Performance
Using Competencies for Training and Development
Using Competencies to Support Pay and Grading

Sample content

A sample chapter of this publication is available

Using Competencies to Review Performance

About the authors

Steve Whiddett
Steve Whiddett is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist. He has over 25 years'' experience as a specialist in the areas of assessment and development. With Sarah Hollyforde he also wrote The Motivation Handbook, also published by the CIPD.


Sarah Hollyforde
Sarah Hollyforde is an HR consultant with over 20 years'' experience working in both the public and private sector. With Steve Whiddett she also wrote The Motivation Handbook, also published by the CIPD.



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