Law360 (May 25, 2010, 3:42 PM EDT) -- Major law firms are increasingly embracing competency models for their associates, both to speed their professional development and make them more marketable to ...

Creative Health Care Insight (CHCI) has just announced the formalization of its strategic partnership model, an expanded approach designed to help healthcare organizations build, implement and sustain ...

A multidisciplinary panel created a competency model to address the expanding demands of genomic technologies on the cancer care workforce.

When HR professionals turn their attention to competency modeling, what they see can be as misleading as the external employment market. Outside the organization, high unemployment rates mask a ...

Since your competency model represents what people should be doing, it should drive HR systems. Applying the model to these systems will probably be an easier lift than creating the model in the first ...

When organizations’ hire, develop, and promote leaders using a competency-based model, they’re unwittingly incubating failure. Nothing fractures corporate culture faster, and eviscerates talent ...

The training and development profession, like the human resource profession, has changed significantly during the past decade, and so have the skills and knowledge that practitioners need to be ...

Competency models are used to define which characteristics and performance requirements are needed to meet a certain expectation. A competency is essentially being adept and capable at a certain skill ...

Competency management systems allow employers to evaluate employees' performance. Use of these systems allows managers and supervisors to identify gaps, deploy remedial training, recruit staff and ...

To meet the demands of the rapidly expanding field of infection prevention, and equip professionals for the challenges of the future, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and ...