A Study on Competency Mapping in Organizations

Abstract

 We are in an era of cut throat competition, where companies and multinationals sweat out to hire competent employees and to develop relevant competencies in their existing employees. Hence it is important for organizations to evaluate workforce competency and develop them on an ongoing basis to meet the global competition. Organiza­tions rely on their competent employees as a main resource. Such concept has led to the success of an organization. Human Resource Development aims at constantly assessing competency requirements of different individuals to perform the jobs assigned to them effectively and provide opportunities for developing theses competencies to prepare them for future roles in the organization. It is equally imperative for a firm to define a set of core competencies which corresponds with its key market differentiators while conducting recruitment and selection process this is where competency mapping plays a key role.

This research paper is a review of Competency Mapping, types, methods and procedure of mapping competencies in an organization. This study based upon the on secondary sources like Text books, Journal, e-resources.

KEYWORDS: Competency, skills, organization, Competition