Employee Competency Management Initiative: A Literature Review

Sesugh, Esther Hephzibah

doi:10.18535/ijsrm/v10i1.em1

Abstract

This paper discussed the concept of employee competency management initiatives. The paper highlighted particularly on three competency management initiatives – employee training, workplace mentoring and coaching. The paper is theoretical and as such draws its significance from its focus on the need for flexible and fluid employee competency initiatives given the changing dynamics and features of the work and business environment. This position is also hinged on the observed challenges of change and the imperatives for organizational learning and management re-orientation in line with the shifts in the market and the global community. The study concludes that the adoption and application of competency initiatives should begin with the specific needs of the organization as well as the specification of its goals. The design and features of competency management initiatives such as employee training, workplace mentoring and coaching, premised on the specifications of the organizations own particular experiences and expectations will offer more focus and will be more effective in addressing the organizations own unique or particular challenges and problems

Highlights

Organizations‟ ability to recruit and retain capable employees has become a major challenge in this rapidly changing business environment, especially given the fierce competition among firms to acquire same scarce workforce that are perceive to be of high potentials
Employee competency management initiatives offers a position on the development and channelling of employee capabilities, knowledge, motives and skillsets
The study identifies employee competency management as an imperative in driving the workforce of the organization and in ensuring that its human resources values and orientations are in line with those of the organization, and as such, enhancing the cohesiveness and collaboration between units or workers within the organization

Summary

Introduction

Organizations‟ ability to recruit and retain capable employees has become a major challenge in this rapidly changing business environment, especially given the fierce competition among firms to acquire same scarce workforce that are perceive to be of high potentials Despite this fact capable employee still need to be provided with training and development activities so as to increase their skills and promote efficiency at the workplace. When training, mentoring and coaching are aligned with firm corporate level and overall business strategies, it enables employees to have in-depth insight as to the overall expectation of their tasks and jobs and its impact on the performance and sustainability of the organization (Bartram, 2004; Thomson &Strickland, 2004) This paper as such discussed employee competency management initiatives from the light of their appropriability in addressing the unique and ever-changing problems of employee development and role performance within organizations today. This is as studies indicate that given the advent of globalization and Sesugh, Esther Hephzibah, IJSRM Volume 10 Issue 01 January 2022 [www.ijsrm.in] EM-2022-2834 the merging of boundaries and markets, most skills have become obsolete with new knowledge capacities and competencies emerging from the newly created and fused social norms, cultures and values that define most contexts and economies

Workplace Coaching

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