.... Employability is especially important for freelancers as it has a key influence on their financial success. However, there is a lack of empirical research on the employability of freelancers and the competences associated with it. This article aims to reduce this research gap by presenting findings...

...Ainhoa Urtasun; Imanol Núñez Purpose This paper aims to identify the work‐based competences associated with better career prospects in the Spanish labour market. Design/methodology/approach The relationship between employee‐based competencies and employment prospects is investigated through...

...Ashly H. Pinnington Purpose The purpose of this paper is to learn about professional employees in the early stage of their careers, particularly, their understanding of competence development and career advancement. Law firms have a relatively low rate of turnover of professional staff when...

.... This paper seeks to develop a competency typology that integrates previous definitions and frameworks from the literature and to propose a methodology for identifying competencies to aid the transition from a task‐based to a competency‐based logic for human resource management. Design/methodology/approach...

...Hanneke Heinsman; Annebel H.B. de Hoogh; Paul L. Koopman; Jaap J. van Muijen Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of the commitment‐ and control‐approaches on the use of competency management, and to investigate whether attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioural...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Selection Interpersonal skills Human resourcing Aptitude tests Competences In recent years, many customers for whom a recruitment office was working have requested more detailed information on the interpersonal competencies of candidates in the first selection stage...

... An original model based on the labor competency management framework is proposed for training, developing and certifying construction supervisors in Chile and other developing countries. This model was developed from the findings of a case study in which the competency framework was applied to a specific...

...Mark A. Robinson; Paul R. Sparrow; Chris Clegg; Kamal Birdi Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce an integrated three‐phase methodology for forecasting future competency requirements more effectively than existing methods. Design/methodology/approach The methodology is demonstrated...

...Paul Boselie; Jaap Paauwe Purpose To provide an overview of recent empirical survey research on human resource competencies in Europe. Design/methodology/approach The survey data were collected in 2002 in the global human resource competence study (HRCS), an initiative of the University...

...Mike Geppert Purpose This paper develops a deeper understanding of the origin, development and implementation of overall change management strategies in multinationals and their implications for competence development and learning practices in UK and German subsidiaries. Design/methodology...

... of reward system change effectiveness. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 The principle of competence acquisition is crucial to job families pay systems in general (Armstrong, 1999) and the Norlife system in particular. Competences are essential for determining the position in the job family...

...Reid Bates This study explored the ability of liking and two forms of rater‐ratee similarity to predict multi‐source proficiency ratings of managerial competencies. Findings from the regression model that included all raters indicated that technical proficiency, rater‐ratee liking, demographic...

... limitations in respect of certain candidates. Links with wider use of competencies in HRM are examined as well as links with other selection methods. Concludes that behavioural interviewing has significant benefits in improving selection and can also be applied to other interviewing situations...

...Inger Boyett; Graeme Currie This paper presents a case study of a management development programme, which adopts a competence‐based approach aimed at middle managers in a further education college. The programme takes place in a context that promotes the concept of general management. However...

...John Hayes; Alison Rose‐Quirie; Christopher W. Allinson This study investigates whether there is a set of universal senior management competencies in the context of one large multi‐site service organisation. Four distinct work environments are identified and different lists of competencies...

...Hugh McCredie; Viv Shackleton The note explores the requisite competencies of subsidiary unit general managers in a successful multibusiness group dealing primarily in industrial goods. The authors define a competency model for the particular genre of general manager based on the literature...

..., and second, the way working towards the NVQ changed the candidates’ work practices. The “paradox of consequences” inherent in the qualification is highlighted as the apparently rational and “relevant” competences result in distinctly irrelevant activities and it is argued that, rather than representing...

... collaboratively with one another problematic. Misunderstanding, miscommunication, mutual stereotyping of one another′s competence and contribution, and a tendency to mutual blaming all created the potential for conflict, tension and disagreement. In this particular situation various kinds of inter‐agency, cross...

...Len Holmes Despite debate and criticism, the notion of“competence” has risen to prominence very rapidly and now has an important place in the vocabulary of human resource management(HRM). Seeks to explain such a rapid rise by drawing on discourse theory. The discourse of competence may be seen...

... procedure to select for future competences as well as present day requirements. Four exercises were designed; non‐assigned role, analysis, council meeting and interview. In addition, the Saville and Holdsworth numerical and verbal ability tests from the Advanced Test Battery, NA3 and VA4,were used along...