Competency Mapping 
Najeebullah Hemat
What is Competency? 
 Any underlying characteristic required for performing a 
given task, activity, or role successfully can be considered 
as competency 
 Competency may take the following forms: knowledge, 
attitude, skill, other characteristics of an individual 
including: motives, values, etc.
What is Competency Mapping? 
 Competency mapping is the process of identification of 
the competencies required to perform successfully a 
given job or role or a set of tasks at a given point of time 
 It consists of breaking a given role or job into its 
constituent tasks or activities and identifying the 
competencies (technical, managerial, behavioral, 
conceptual knowledge, attitudes, skills, etc.) needed to 
perform the same successfully
Who does? 
 Competencies can be identified by one of more of the 
following category of people: Experts, HR Specialists, Job 
analysts, Psychologists, Industrial Engineers etc. in 
consultation with: Line Managers, Current & Past Role 
holders, Supervising Seniors, Reporting and Reviewing 
Officers, Internal Customers, Subordinates of the role 
holders and Other role set members of the role (those 
who have expectations from the role holder and who 
interact with him/her)
Methods used for Competency Mapping 
 The various methods used in combination for 
competency mapping 
 Interviews 
 Group work 
 Task Forces 
 Task Analysis workshops 
 Questionnaire 
 Use of Job descriptions 
 Performance Appraisal Formats etc.
Steps 
 First: A job analysis is carried out by asking employees to 
fill in a questionnaire that asks them to describe what 
they are doing, and what skills, attitudes and abilities they 
need to have to perform it well 
 Second: Having discovered the similarities in the 
questionnaires, a competency-based job description 
 Third: Having agreed on the job requirements, one starts 
mapping the capability of the employees to the 
benchmarks
Application

Competency mapping HRD

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    What is Competency?  Any underlying characteristic required for performing a given task, activity, or role successfully can be considered as competency  Competency may take the following forms: knowledge, attitude, skill, other characteristics of an individual including: motives, values, etc.
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    What is CompetencyMapping?  Competency mapping is the process of identification of the competencies required to perform successfully a given job or role or a set of tasks at a given point of time  It consists of breaking a given role or job into its constituent tasks or activities and identifying the competencies (technical, managerial, behavioral, conceptual knowledge, attitudes, skills, etc.) needed to perform the same successfully
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    Who does? Competencies can be identified by one of more of the following category of people: Experts, HR Specialists, Job analysts, Psychologists, Industrial Engineers etc. in consultation with: Line Managers, Current & Past Role holders, Supervising Seniors, Reporting and Reviewing Officers, Internal Customers, Subordinates of the role holders and Other role set members of the role (those who have expectations from the role holder and who interact with him/her)
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    Methods used forCompetency Mapping  The various methods used in combination for competency mapping  Interviews  Group work  Task Forces  Task Analysis workshops  Questionnaire  Use of Job descriptions  Performance Appraisal Formats etc.
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    Steps  First:A job analysis is carried out by asking employees to fill in a questionnaire that asks them to describe what they are doing, and what skills, attitudes and abilities they need to have to perform it well  Second: Having discovered the similarities in the questionnaires, a competency-based job description  Third: Having agreed on the job requirements, one starts mapping the capability of the employees to the benchmarks
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Editor's Notes

  • #4 Competency mapping is the process of indetifyication of the competencies required