Competency is the measure by which you evaluate the performance potential of employees. Competency indicates the quantum of skills, knowledge and behavioral traits in an employee that facilitate better performance in a task or assignment. It has substituted the term “skills”, reflecting recent HR thinking, where skills constitute only a portion of competency.

Competency, Class and Elements: Competency is made of elements. A competency element refers to any unique, identifiable and ratable skill, knowledge or behavioral trait.

Competency class refers to any set of closely related competency elements that can be grouped under a single class viz., Knowledge, skills or behavioral traits.

A group of related competency classes make up a Competency, required for effective performance in a task, or assignment.

The Create Competency Class activity: The Create Competency Class activity enables you to create and define a new competency class. You can define each competency class with a unique code and description. In other words, you can

• Assign a unique code to identify the competency class.

• Enter a short description for each competency class. Optionally, you can provide a more elaborate description also. For example, if the competency class being defined pertains to ‘Skills’, for which you enter the short description as “Technical Skills”, you can enter the long description as “Technical Skills pertaining to operating compressor” etc., to make the description more clear.

• Specify the Active/Inactive status of the competency class details. Enter any additional comments with regard to the specified competency class details.

Active or Inactive: You can choose to maintain the details in active or inactive status. If you keep the details in active status, the competency class will be available for use in other activities. If the details are in inactive status, the competency class will not be available for use in other activities.

Getting familiar with the pages inside

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Create Competency Class	Creating a Competency Class

 

Prerequisites:

 Definition of a three tier competency structure involving Competencies, competency classes and competency elements.

 

What you can do in this activity

Define a competency class with a unique code

Specify a short and optionally a long description for the competency class.

Activate/Deactivate the competency class details.

Enter additional comments, if any.

Specifying a code to competency class

The unique code of the competency class that you specify helps in identifying the competency class.

To define a competency class,

• Go to “Create Competency Class” page.

• Specify the details in the corresponding fields.

Specifying the short and long descriptions of the competency class

You can enter both a short as well as a long description of the competency class.

To specify the descriptions,

• Go to “Create Competency Class” page.

• Specify the details in the corresponding fields.

 

The system provides the flexibility of activating or deactivating the competency class details whenever necessary. If the details are in active status, if means that they can be used in other activities. If you choose to deactivate the details, the competency class will not be available for use in other activities.

To activate/deactivate the details

• Go to “Create Competency Class” page.

• Select the “Inactive” check box to inactivate the details.

• Note that blank check box indicates that the details are in active status.