Management of Competency

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This paper explains that the management of employee competency is more critical in the current environment of mergers, acquisitions and downsizing because competent employees are an effective resource. The author points out that any need for a disciplinary action of an employee is a failure of the way in which HR hires and utilizes their employees because incompetence is expensive. The paper relates that to analyze this incompetence the HR managers must evaluate (1) the explanation and enforcement of the rules, (2) the issue of employee diversity, (3) the criteria and methods of employee selection and (4) the disciplinary action itself.

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"Our first assumption is that global unemployment which "now has reached its highest level since the great depression of the 1930s" gives us a greater pool of potential employees and that we can thus be more selective. Our task in hiring the "right" employees is to eliminate their skepticism and their fear of being downsized. "The new computer-based technologies promise a replacement of the human mind itself, substituting thinking machines for human beings across the entire gamut of economic activities." In other words, the people who seek jobs in the company come prepared for the worst: being hired and then first to be let go in some sort of downsizing."

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