COMPETENCY BASED
PERFORMANCE
MANAGEMENT
- Abhyuday Gupta
- Prashant Kumar Singh
Use of competency in
Performance
management
Establishing levels of
performance
Measuring and managing performance
Alignment with Organizational goals and
objectives
Identifying T&D needs for future
Succession Planning
identifying factors related
to job
Usually performance is measured by:
Achievement of objective (Often given more
importance)
Behavioral performance
Identification of Critical competencies:
Ranking Method
Paired Comparison
Relevance
Something that
strongly
influences your
customers
Difficulty of
imitation
Breadth of
application
Core
competencies
should be unique
and difficult to
imitate
Should open up a
good number of
potential markets
Hamel and Prahalad Model
List of competencies which may be used:
http://www.workforce.com/articles/31-corecompetencies-explained
Hamel and Prahalad Model
Methods of collecting
information
Purpose of Review
Forms of Information
Methods of collection
To establish level of
performance(Currrent Role)
Behavioral Performance
Output Performance
Task performance
Questionnaire, records of
achievements, observations
To identify need for performance
improvement
Behavioral Performance
Output Performance
Task performance
Personal Circumstances
Organizational issues
Questionnaire, records of
achvements, observations,
discussions (eg with job holder)
To identify development
potential (future role)
Behavioral Performance
Output Performance
Task performance
Assessment Centre, assignments
To discuss career interests
Work history
Competency Profile
Aspirations
Interests, knowledge and
abilities
Opportunities
Assessment Centre,
development centre, discussions
with individuals
people involved in
Multi
Rater(360 degree)
assessing
competencies
Feedbackisperceptionnotnecessarilyfact,
particularlyonbehaviours
Perceptionisqualitativenotquantitative
Feedbackissubjectivenotobjective
Therelationshipbetweenacompetenceandactual
performanceisintuitiveandonlyassumedunless
validatedbystatisticalcorrelation
JobHolder
Peers
Manager
Internal
Supplier
Internal
Customer
Projectteam
member
rating scales
A through assessment of performance includes evaluations of competency performance
and output achieved. This leads to three layers of ratings:
Individual ratings for
Competencies and outputs
Overall ratings for
Competencies and
outputs
Overall performance
ratings
Outputs
Competencies
Exceedallstandardsrequired
Allcompetenciesratedoutstanding
Allrequiredstandardsachieved,someexceeded
Mixofgoodandoutstandingratings
Mostrequiredstandardsachieved
Mostcompetenciesratedgood
Manyachievedtargetsclosetostandard
Mostcompetenciesratedmarginal
Veryfew/noachievedstandardtargets
Mostcompetenciesratedpoor
1. Given what I know of this persons
performance, and if it were my money, I would
award this person the highest possible
compensation increase and bonus [measures
overall performance and unique value to the
organization on a five-point scale from strongly
agree to strongly disagree].
a new approach
Astudyof4,492managerswereratedoncertain
performancedimensionsbytwobosses,two
peers,andtwosubordinatesrevealedthat62%
ofthevarianceintheratingscouldbeaccounted
forbyindividualraterspeculiaritiesof
perception.Actualperformanceaccountedfor
only21%ofthevariance.
2.GivenwhatIknowofthispersons
performance,Iwouldalwayswanthimorheron
myteam[measures ability to work well with
others on the same five-point scale].
Peoplemayrateotherpeoplesskills
inconsistently,buttheyarehighlyconsistent
whenratingtheirownfeelingsandintentions.
3.Thispersonisatriskforlowperformance
[identifies problems that might harm the customer
or the team on a yes-or-no basis].
4.Thispersonisreadyforpromotiontoday
[measures potential on a yes-or-no basis].
Performance analysis
Thank You