Performance Management: Competency (Definitions)

"An ability to perform business processes, which are supported by necessary available resources, practices, and activities, allowing the organization to offer products/services." (Jiri Hodík et al, "e-Cat for Partner Profiling and Competency Management Tool", 2008)

"Present or target capacity of a group or an individual to perform a cognitive, affective, social or psychomotor skill with regard to certain area of knowledge and in a specific context. The context consists in defining whether the skill can be attributed to the knowledge in a guided or autonomous way, in simple or complex, familiar or new situations, in a global or partial, persistent or sporadic manner." (Gilbert Paquette et al, "Principled Construction and Reuse of Learning Designs", Handbook of Research on Learning Design and Learning Objects: Issues, Applications, and Technologies, 2009)

"The ability to do something successfully or efficiently, often broken down into skills, knowledge, and attitude." (Alfonso Urquiza, "Competency Management Information Systems", 2009)

"The underlying characteristics of an individual (a motive, trait, skill, aspect of one’s self image or social role, or a body of knowledge) which underlie performance or behavior at work." (Jorge Valdés-Conca & Lourdes Canós-Darós, "B2E Relationships, Intranets, and Competency Management", 2009)

"A cluster of knowledges, understandings, skills, attitudes, values, and interests that are required for the performance of a function. In this case the function would be to be competent in counseling adult learners." (John A Henschke, "Counseling in an Andragogical Approach", 2012)

"A specific, identifiable, definable, and measurable knowledge, skill, ability, and/or other deployment-related characteristic (e.g., attitude, behavior, physical ability) which a human resource may possess and which is necessary for, or material to, the performance of an activity within a specific business context." Nancy B Hastings & Karen L Rasmussen, "Designing and Developing Competency-Based Education Courses Using Standards", 2017)

"Competency is the ability to demonstrate a specified level of knowledge or skill." (Christine K S Irvine & Jonathan M Kevan, "Competency-Based Education in Higher Education", 2017)

"Expected capacity the learner should build to be successful in his/her career. Competency is written in broader terms and are not directly measurable." (Devrim Ozdemir & Carla Stebbins, "A Framework for the Evaluation of Competency-Based Curriculum", 2017)

"Competencies are specific knowledge-based skills, abilities, or expertise in a subject area. When these skillsets are shared across a profession, they are said to have core competencies." (Valerie A Storey et al, "Developing a Clinical Leadership Pipeline: Planning, Operation, and Sustainability", 2019)

"Multidimensional construct which represents what a person is capable of doing. It includes knowledge, skills, experience, abilities, values, attitudes, personality traits, among others." (Geraldina Silveyra et al, "Proposal of a Comprehensive Model of Teachable Entrepreneurship Competencies (M-TEC): Literature Review and Theoretical Foundations", 2019)

"The ability to act successfully on the basis of practical experience, skill, and knowledge in solving professional problems. Is understood as a formal system characteristic, which is described as a set of requirements for the knowledge, skills and qualities of the employee for a function, position or role in the organization." (Vitaly V Martynov et al, "CSRP: System Design Technology of Training Information Support of Competent Professionals", 2019)

"A guiding tool including knowledge, abilities, distinguished personal attributes, and behaviours for higher performance contributing to achieving strategic goals of the company." (Mustafa K Topcu, "Competency Framework for the Fourth Industrial Revolution", 2020)

"Proficiency or mastery of identified knowledge, skills or abilities." (Ernst Jan van Weperen et al, "Sustainable Entrepreneurial Thinking: Developing Pro-Active, Globally Aware Citizens", 2020)

"Capacity to perform something in an effective manner. Involves individual attitudes, knowledge, and skills necessary, and behaviors." (Christiane Molina, "Management Education for a Sustainable World: Aiming for More Than Business as Usual", 2021)

"Competency refers to observable and measurable skills that integrate the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes required of a professional in the practice of his specialty." (Maria M P Calimag, "The ePortfolio: Technology-Enhanced Authentic Assessment in the Continuum of Medical Education", 2021)

"The sum of knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, and individual characteristics that enable a person to perform actions successfully." (Almudena Eizaguirre et al, "A Methodological Proposal to Analyse the Process for Implementing Competency-Based Learning (CBL) in a Business School", 2021)