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Competency Development: Curse or Cure?

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A Capability-First Guide for HR Management

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvPatrick Duffy

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Competenciesare everywhere. Capability is not.Organizationsinvest heavily in competency frameworks. They embed them into hiring,performance management, leadership development, culture programs, andprofessional standards. And yet, despite their ubiquity, competencies remainone of the least examined and least governed tools in organizational life.CompetencyDevelopment: Curse or Cure? asks a toughquestion: has competency modeling become the answer to the wrong problem?Drawingon organization science, human performance theory, and real-world practice,this book challenges the way competencies are defined, modeled, assessed, andgoverned. It shows how competencies frequently drift into symbolic language,cultural enforcement, and performative compliance-while failing to explain orimprove actual performance. Butthis isn't an anti-competency book. It's a capability-first guide that showswhen competencies genuinely matter, when they don't, and how they must bepositioned inside a disciplined understanding of how organizations really work.It introduces a clear domain architecture for modeling competencies, explainswhy most assessment practices fall short, and sets out how competency systemscan be governed so they remain useful rather than becoming institutional"zombies." Thisbook replaces enthusiasm with judgment, and frameworks with evidence. If youcare less about having competencies and more about buildingreal capability, this book is for you.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-02-16
Mått5 x 8 x 14 mm
Vikt281 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieVita Viri Organization & People
Antal sidor258
FörlagVita Viri Publishing
ISBN9781919268651

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Dr. Patrick Duffy is an organization scientist, advisor, and author specializing in organization capability, enterprise governance, and workforce performance. He is the originator of a systematic framework for measuring, designing, and governing organization capability as a foundation for enterprise effectiveness, productivity, and institutional performance.With more than 30 years of experience across government, business, and the nonprofit sector, he has worked with and advised senior leaders on strategy execution, organizational design, workforce capability, structural reform, and performance improvement. His work focuses on diagnosing capability constraints within organizational systems and translating organizational science into practical operating models that improve measurable performance.Dr. Duffy holds a doctorate and MPhil in organization science, an MBA from Cardiff University, an MSc from Bangor University, a postgraduate diploma from the London School of Economics, and an MA from the University of Leicester. His academic research includes a peer-reviewed publication in the Journal of Business and Public Administration (2025), where he proposed an empirical methodology for evaluating organization capability and its relationship to organizational effectiveness and productivity.He is the author of a body of work on organization capability, workforce performance, and enterprise management, including Organization Capability: Define, Measure, Govern; Measuring Work and Productive Capacity; The HR Paradox; Culture System; and Competency Development: Curse or Cure?. His books establish organization capability as a measurable executive responsibility and provide evidence-based frameworks used by leaders to design effective organizations, strengthen workforce capability, and improve enterprise execution.

Introduction:WhyCompetencies Became the Answer to the Wrong Question1. The Meaning of Competency: Competing Paradigms, Historical Drift, and the State of PracticeINSIGHTS 1: Modeling vs Frameworks2. The Costs of GettingCompetencies Wrong3. Reconstructing Competency: A Human Performance Foundation4. Defining Competency: From Individual Action to Systemic ValueINSIGHTS 2: The "Great Eight" (Competencies)5. Competencies,Capability, and CultureINSIGHTS 3: Dentistry As Exhibit A6. When You Should NotBuild Competencies7. Why UniversalFrameworks Are So Seductive8. PositioningCompetencies Inside CapabilityINSIGHTS 4: Training In Competencies9. DesigningCompetencies That Actually Matter10. Assessing &Governing CompetenciesClosingRemarks: From Competencies to CapabilityAppendices I. Worked Example forOrganization Capability:Foundational Capability Attainment (FCA)II. Capability ReadinessAssessment:For Competency IntroductionAboutthe AuthorNotes& References