What is Competency Based Assessment – Meaning and Important Concepts
With the ever evolving and diversifying business challenges, the approach to the management of human resources has also undergone a paradigm shift. The competitive advantage achieved through technology, new products and information is short lived and vastly evaporating. The only distinguishing feature...
The Changing Nature of Employment and Impact on Professionals and Societies
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Changing Nature of Work The very nature of work and employment is changing rapidly before our eyes. Since the times of the First Industrial Revolution when the modern day arrangements of work and employment were firmed...
Challenging Work as a Driver of Employee Engagement
Introduction We often hear the term employee engagement being spoken about in various contexts. We are often told by management experts that engaged employees are a source of sustainable competitive advantage. During earlier periods of organizational theory and practice, it was common...
Competency Based Assessment and Organizational Processes
We have explored quite comprehensively the objective and process of competency based, now we come to the point where it would be interesting to explore how competency based assessment can be linked to organizational process and how it can influence the traditional...
The Process of Competency Based Assessment
The increasing competition and changing business needs demand that the HR professionals responsible for the management of human resources of an organization upgrade and modify their roles and become strategic business partner and an important stakeholder in the growth of the organization....
Career Management – Meaning and Important Concepts
Career management is conscious planning of one’s activities and engagements in the jobs one undertakes in the course of his life for better fulfilment, growth and financial stability. It is a sequential process that starts from an understanding of oneself and encompasses...
Competency Ice-Berg Model – Meaning and its Components
The iceberg model for competencies takes the help of an iceberg to explain the concept of competency. An iceberg which has just one-ninth of its volume above water and the rest remains beneath the surface in the sea. Similarly, a competency has...
Some Things to Consider When Choosing Off-Beat or Non-Mainstream Careers
Career Options in Our Parents and Grandparents Generations In our grandparents and parents generations, it was the norm to choose careers that offer job security, preferably life-long employment, and those that provided pension and other benefits. Indeed, such was the lure of...
Why is Everyone Talking About Artificial Intelligence Suddenly and How it Matters to All of Us?
Understanding the Sudden Interest in Artificial Intelligence by Explaining the Impact on Us Unless you were on another planet and just returned to Earth or you were in a cave, shut off from the world, you wouldn’t have missed the “sudden” explosion...
Assessment and Development Centers
Assessment Center An assessment center is basically a series of assessments carried out using several techniques like simulation, psychometric test and exercises to take critical decisions like selective or rejecting a candidate for recruitment, for promotions and appraisals etc. There are some...
