Employee Core Competencies for Effective Talent Management
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: The search for best ways to attract, develop and utilize organizational people is becoming an intensely interesting and challenging task for HR professionals. Among the wide range of organizational processes relating to developing, retaining and utilizing high-performing employees is employee core competencies. The principal thrust of this study therefore is to review prior literature with the aim of unraveling such employee competencies that significantly impact the management of talent in the workplace. Using a non-empirical approach, the review of extant studies reveals that the skills, knowledge and abilities of employees impact job descriptions and performance management. Others include recruitment and selection, training and development, workforce planning and career paths, compensation and succession planning among others. The paper concludes that tying core competencies with talent management is a win-win proposition as it provides organizations with a means of upgrading and retaining their valuable workforce. To achieve this, the paper recommends the building of competency models, the identification and possession of high-performing behaviors; the development of written job descriptions and the devotion of organizational funds time and space for competency related researches.
Author: Ben Wuim-Pam
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W69604225