By establishing a clear line of sight between organizational direction and employee competencies, HR initiatives directed at enhancing these competencies clear places HR as a strategic partner to the rest of the organization.
Competency Mapping
Having a competency based HR system helps integrate all HR initiatives with the organization’s strategic direction. By mapping the employees competencies, HR is able to devise a mechanism for aligning recruitment, training, performance management, career and succession planning, etc. By establishing a clear line of sight between organizational direction and employee competencies, HR initiatives directed at enhancing these competencies clear places HR as a strategic partner to the rest of the organization. We at ExeQserve can help you facilitate a cost effective competency mapping for your organization and come up with HR initiatives that maximize the use of your competency model.
Strategic alignment
We propose to align the competencies with the organizational direction, strategies and performance measures. This is to ensure that there is direct line of sight between desired performance output and behaviors that define successful performance. This project also equips the organizational participants on the uses of competency models in several areas of performance management but the actual development of competency-based HR systems are scoped and quoted separately to give management a freehand in deciding on whether to engage an external consultant in the development of the tools or just develop them in-house.
Level of Participation
In order to get complete buy in on the use of the competency models and profiles, we propose that key employees be deeply involved in the development of the tools. Through thorough orientation and active participation in the mapping activities, the participants will be able to appreciate the rudiments of competency mapping and equip them to carry on review and revision of the models as needed.
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