Competency Mapping – A Competitive Edge

Any Organization aims at achieving their own objective. In the present era it is not very easy to achieve the objectives. Improvement in every aspect has become the need of the hour. Human resource is one important area where organizations try to concentrate the most. Management of human resource is always a Himalayan task. Competency mapping is one area of Human Resource Management which is gaining attraction. Competency Mapping is a process of identifying key competencies for any job and incorporating those competencies in various processes of the organization. This study is done to identify the process of competency mapping and its importance for any organization. Globalization and Liberalization has led to the growth of all areas of management. Managing human resource is the need of the hour. Competency mapping is applicable to management of human resource at all levels of the organization. Competency Mapping helps to identify the key skills required for the performance of the job which was previously done by Job analysis, analyze the present scenario and picturise the gap. The gap analyzed will help management to find out whether such skills can be developed or resource have to be utilized from outside.