Core competencies are the key skills and abilities an individual or a company possesses. These include the knowledge and experience you bring to the job, the activities that bring the company the ...

The role of the human resources manager has evolved over the years. Whether you are hiring for your own internal HR department or outsourcing the work to a firm, make sure that the individual handling ...

Organizations with core competencies enjoy global leadership. It represents the corporate philosophy; all business strategies revolve around the core competency. Organizations which believe in ...

In fact, this competency is assessed as part of their performance appraisal, says Shirlyn Ng, Senior Director, Human Resource Division, Ministry of Home Affairs, Headquarters (MHQ). The Ministry of ...

After spending last week in Washington, D.C., I was struck by how nervous folks in education circles are about whether states will stick with the Common Core state standards once the Common Core ...

Since Gary Hamel and CK Prahalad put forth the idea of “core competencies” in a 1990 Harvard Business Review article, “The Core Competence of the Corporation,” organizations have taken this insight as ...

In a world of rapid disruption, the idea of having a core competency–an intrinsic set of skills required to thrive in certain markets–is an outmoded principle. Apple, Nike, and Netflix have better ...