Competency Based HR Management

Competency-based HR Management

Contents

Framework for Building Competency-based HR Management System

Developing Competency Model

Competency-based Interview Method

Competency-based Career Planning

Competency-based Training & Development

Competency-based Performance Management

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Competency-based HR Management : A Framework

HR Management Framework based on Competency BUSINESS STRATEGY BUSINESS RESULTS Competency based People Strategy The competency framework will be the basis for all HR functions and serve as the "linkage" between individual performance and business results Recruitment & Selection Training & Development Performance Management Reward Management Career Management COMPETENCY FRAMEWORK

Definition of Competency Competency

A combination of skills, job attitude, and knowledge which is reflected in job behavior that can be observed, measured and evaluated.

Competency is a determining factor for successful performance

The focus of competency is behavior which is an application of skills, job attitude and knowledge.

Skill Job Attitude Knowledge Observable Behavior Job Performance Competency Definition of Competency

Competency and Job Description

Job description looks at what , whereas competency model focuses on how .

Traditional job description analysis looks at elements of the jobs and defines the job into sequences of tasks necessary to perform the job

Competency studies the people who do the job well , and defines the job in terms of the characteristics and behaviors of these people .

Types of Competency Managerial competency (soft competency) This type of competency relates to the ability to manage job and develop an interaction with other persons. For example : problem solving, leadership, communication, etc. Functional competency (hard competency) This type of competency relates to the functional capacity of work. It mainly deals with the technical aspect of the job. For example : market research, financial analysis, electrical engineering, etc.

Competency Identification Process Clarify Organizational Strategy and Context Competency Identification

Analyze Work Role and Process

Gather Data through Behavior Event Interview and Focus Group

Conduct Benchmark Study

Generate Competency Models Validate, Refine and Implement

Examples of Competency

DEFINITION

Adaptability —Maintaining effectiveness when priorities change and new tasks are encountered, and when dealing with individuals who have different views and approaches. Effectively performing in different environments, cultures, and locations, and when working with different technologies and levels of individuals.

KEY BEHAVIOR

Seeking understanding— Makes efforts to better understand changes in the environment; actively seeks

information or attempts to understand nature of individual differences, logic, or basis for change in tasks and situations.

Embracing change— Approaches change or newness with a positive orientation; views change or newness as a learning or growth opportunity.

Making accommodations— Makes accommodations in approach, attitudes, or behaviors in response to changing environmental requirements.

Examples of Competency

DEFINITION

Analysis/Problem Assessment — Securing relevant information and identifying key

issues and relationships from a base of information; relating and comparing data

from different sources; identifying cause-effect relationships.

KEY BEHAVIOR

Identifying issues and problems —Recognizing major issues; identifying key facts, trends, and issues; separating relevant from irrelevant data.

Seeking information —Identifying/Recognizing information gaps or the need for additional information; obtaining information by clearly describing what needs to be known and the means to obtain it; questioning clearly and specifically to verify facts and obtain the necessary information.

Seeing relationships —Organizing information and data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes; comparing, contrasting, and combining information; seeing associations between seemingly independent problems or events to recognize trends, problems, and possible cause-effect relationships.

Performing data analysis —Organizing and manipulating quantitative data to identify/explain trends, problems, and their causes.

Benefits of Using Competency Model

For Managers, the benefits are:

Identify performance criteria to improve the accuracy and ease of the hiring and selection process.

Clarify standards of excellence for easier communication of performance expectations to direct reports.

Provide a clear foundation for dialogue to occur between the manager and employee about performance, development, and career-related issues.

Benefits of Using Competency Model

For Employees , the benefits are:

Identify the success criteria (i.e., behavioral standards of performance excellence) required to be successful in their role.

Support a more specific and objective assessment of their strengths and specify targeted areas for professional development.

Provide development tools and methods for enhancing their skills.

Alignment : Competencies impact systems that actively support the organization’s vision, strategy, and key capabilities.

Integration : Competency initiatives that produce the most significant change are applied systemically across a range of HR development processes.

Distribution : Competency standards alone produce little effect. They must be actively and relentlessly communicated and installed with users.

Key Characteristics of Successful Implementation

Self-Directed Application : Competency systems frequently fail because they are too complex or require an unsustainable level of sponsorship or program support. Implementations that work best focus on the development of “tools” that can produce results for users with relatively little ongoing support.

Acculturation : In competency systems that work, they become part of the culture and the mindset of leaders through repeated application and refinement over a significant period of time.

Key Characteristics of Successful Implementation

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Types of Interview

Conventional Interview

Competency-based Interview

Unstructured :

Is a type of interview where the questions are not designed systematically and not properly structured.

There is no standard format to follow, therefore the process of interviewing can go in any direction.

Is seldom equipped with formal guidelines regarding the system of rating/scoring the interview.

Has low reliability and validity – there is no accuracy in predicting performance

Susceptible to bias and subjectivity (gut feeling)

Competency-based Interview (CBI)

Is a structured type of interview. The questions are focused on disclosing examples of behavior in the past .

The process of interview is intended to disclose specifically and in detail examples of behavior in the past.

Is designed based on the principle : past behavior predicts future behavior (Candidates are most likely to repeat these behaviors in similar situations in the future).

Has a high level of validity and reliability.

Equipped with a standard scoring system which refers to behavior indicators

Competency-based Interview

Approach in Competency-based Interview S What was the S ituation in which you were involved? T What was the T ask you needed to accomplish? A What A ction(s) did you take? R What R esults did you achieve?

Situation Can you explain the situation? Where and when did the situation happen? What events led up to it? Who was involved in the situation (work colleagues, supervisor, customers)? Approach in Competency-based Interview

What tasks were you supposed to do at that time? What did you actually do at that time? How did you do it? What specific steps did you take? Who was involved? Tasks/Actions Approach in Competency-based Interview

What was the outcome? Can you tell me the results of taking such action? What specific outcome was produced by your action? Results Approach in Competency-based Interview

Sample Questions in CBI Competency Sample Question Persistence In the process of selling, we are sometimes not successful in securing a new transaction. Can you tell me about one or two situations where you repeatedly failed to get a new client? What specific steps did you take? What was the result? Influencing Others Can you describe one or two cases in your effort to obtain new customers? What did you do? What was the result?

Competency Sample Question Interpersonal Can you tell me about a situation where you faced Understanding a client who was disappointed with your product? What was the situation like? What specific steps did you take? What was the result? Planning & In working, we often face a number of priorities Organizing that must be tackled at the same time. Can you tell me about one or two actual cases where you had to face such a situation? What did you do? What was the consequence? Sample Questions in CBI

Bias in the Interview Process First Impressions An interviewer might make a snap judgement about someone based on their first impression - positive or negative - that clouds the entire interview . For example, letting the fact that the candidate is wearing out-of-the-ordinary clothing or has a heavy regional accent take precedence over the applicant's knowledge, skills, or abilities.

Bias in the Interview Process Halo Effect The "halo" effect occurs when an interviewer allows one strong point about the candidate to overshadow or have an effect on everything else. For instance, knowing someone went to a particular university might be looked upon favorably. Everything the applicant says during the interview is seen in this light.

Bias in the Interview Process Contrast Effect Strong(er) candidates who interview after weak(er) ones may appear more qualified than they are because of the contrast between the two. Note taking during the interview and a reasonable period of time between interviews may alleviate this.

Competency-based Career Planning

Career Planning Flow Career Planning System Career Path Design Analysis of Employees Future Plan Implementation of Development Program

Defining Career Path Career Path is a series of positions that one must go through in order to achieve a certain position in the company. The ‘path’ is based on the position competency profile that an employee must have to be able to hold a certain position. What Is Career Path?

Analyzing a position or job based on the competency required Categorizing the positions that require similar competencies into one job family Identifying career paths based on the job family Competency profile (Functional and Managerial Competency) Per Position Categorizing the positions into a Job Family

Career Path : Vertical, Lateral and Diagonal

Mandatory training

Defining Career Path

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Assessing Employee Career Plan Employee Career Needs

Assessment of the career type of the employee

Assessment of the employee competency level (for example through assessment center )

Organization Career Needs

Assessment of the competency profile required by the position

Assessment of the organization’s need of manpower planning

Match?

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK Employee Development Program Employee Career Needs Organization Career Needs Match? Special Assignment Mentoring Executive Development Program Job Enrichment On the Job Development Apprenticeship in Other Company Presentation Assignment Training/Workshop Desk Study Development Programs and Interventions

Competency-based Training & Development

Competency-based Training Framework Required competency level for certain position Competency Gap Competency Assessment Current competency level of the employee Training and Development Program

Competency Profile Per Position

Training Matrix for Competency Development V = compulsory training Training Title

Competency-based Performance Management

Individual Performance elements has two main categories: 1. Performance Results : Hard or quantitative aspects of performance (result) 2. Competencies : It represents soft or qualitative aspects of performance (process) Individual Performance Element

Performance Results Score

2. Competencies Score Individual Performance Element Overall Score Will determine the employee’s career movement, and also the reward to be earned

Target should be measurable and specific Element # 1 : Performance Results

Element # 2 : Competencies Competency : Collaboration Draws upon the full range of relationships (internal, external, cross The company) at critical points in marketing and negotiations. Ensures events and systems, eg IT, for collaboration are in place and used. Manages alliance relationships through complex issues such as points of competing interest. Drives and leads key relationship groups across The company. Builds and maintains relationships across The company. Encourages co-operation rather than competition within the team and with key stakeholders. Uses cross functional teams to draw upon skills and knowledge throughout the organization. Uses cross functional teams to draw upon skills and knowledge throughout the organization. Involves teams in decisions that effect them. Builds internal and external networks and uses them to efficiently to create value. Actively builds internal and external networks. Balances complementary strengths in teams and seeks diverse contributions and perspectives. Responds promptly to other team members’ needs. Shares resources and information. Shares resources and information. Shares resources and information. Shares resources and information. Empathise with audience and formulates messages accordingly. Empathise with audience and formulates messages accordingly. Empathise with audience and formulates messages accordingly. Empathise with audience and formulates messages accordingly. Actively listens, and clarifies understanding where required, in order to learn from others. Actively listens, and clarifies understanding where required, in order to learn from others. Actively listens, and clarifies understanding where required, in order to learn from others. Actively listens, and clarifies understanding where required, in order to learn from others. Expert Advanced Intermediate Basic

Assessing Competency through Assessment Center

Assessment Center Characteristics:

A standardized evaluation of behavior based on multiple inputs.

Multiple trained observers and techniques are used.

Judgments about behaviors are made, in major part, from specifically developed assessment simulations.

These judgments are pooled in a meeting among the assessors or by a statistical integration process

Types of Test in Assessment Center

In-trays or in-baskets involve working from the contents of a manager’s in-tray, which typically consists of letters, memos and background information. You may be asked to deal with paperwork and make decisions, balancing the volume of work against a tight schedule.

In-Basket Exercise

In a role play, you are given a particular role to assume for a certain task. The task will involve dealing with a role player in a certain way, and there will be an assessor watching the role play.

Role Simulation

In a fact-finding exercise, you may be asked to reach a decision starting from only partial knowledge. Your task is to decide what additional information you need to make the decision, and sometimes also to question the assessor to obtain this information.

Fact-Finding Exercise Types of Test in Assessment Center

You may be required to make a formal presentation to a number of assessors. In some cases this will mean preparing a presentation in advance on a given topic. In other cases, you may be asked to interpret and analyse given information, and present a case to support a decision.

Presentation

Types of Test in Assessment Center

Group exercises are timed discussions, where a group of participants work together to tackle a work-related problem. Sometimes you are given a particular role within a team, for example sales manager or personnel manager. Other times there will be no roles allocated. You are observed by assessors, who are not looking for right or wrong answers, but for how you interact with your colleagues in the team.

Group Discussion

Competency Score Results of Observation Through the Assessment Center Competency Assessment and Rating