Quality Criteria for Competency Assignments: Examples from a Project Management Case Study

: We present several quality criteria for skills management initiatives based on the competence-performance approach [Kor97]. The criteria help to measure reliability and validity of a skills management approach and thereby help to determine the suitability of competency assignments in an organisation. The approach is illustrated by a case study. 1 The need for Quality Criteria in Skills Management Whenever databases are being used in skills management initiatives, they usually contain assignments of competencies to people or competencies to jobs. These assignments are established through employee profiles which provide information on the competencies possessed by a certain employee, or job profiles which detail out the competency requirements of a certain job. The question arises whether these assignments reflect the “true affairs” in the organisation – a precondition for the usefulness of such assignments. In this paper, we define competencies as personal characteristics (knowl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: GI
• Authors: Tobias Ley, Dietrich Albert
• Keywords: GI 2004, Quality Criteria, Skills Management, Skills Management Initiatives, Theoretical Computer Science