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Introduction – the competency movement: its origins and impact on the public sector

Horton, Sylvia - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 306-318

This introduction seeks to locate the origins of the competency management in American and British management concerns with declining international competitiveness and the need for more efficient and effective managers. It examines the distinctive American and British approaches and identifies...

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Professional sense‐makers: managerial competencies amidst ambiguity

Noordegraaf, Mirko - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 319-332

In this article, managerial competencies are derived from observations of public managers in action. Based on institutional theory, it is assumed that public managers are competent when they know how to play the game of public management and how to apply the rules of the game. This assumption is...

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Changing competences of public managers: tensions in commitment

Virtanen, Turo - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 333-341

The literature on managerial competences has not sufficiently addressed the value contents of competences and the …. Each competence area includes both value and instrumental competences. Relatively permanent value competences are … understood as commitments. The assumptions of new public management question not only the instrumental competences but also the …

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Competency management in the Flemish and Dutch civil service

Hondeghem, Annie; Vandermeulen, Filip - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 342-353

Competency management has become a new trend in the public sector. There is some doubt, however, if competency management is really something new or whether it is just old wine in new bottles. Academics seem to be more sceptical about its novelty than practitioners. This article attempts to...

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Competency management in the British civil service

Horton, Sylvia - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 354-368

Competency management is an idea that was developed in the private sector and transposed to the public sector during the 1990s. First this article examines the concept of competency‐based management, its claimed advantages over traditional approaches to personnel management and the problems...

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Developing and implementing competence‐based recruitment and selection in a social services department – A case study of West Sussex County Council

Farnham, David; Stevens, Amanda - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 4, pp. 369-382

This article reports and evaluates how a traditional approach to recruitment and selection in the Social Services Department of West Sussex County Council was superseded by a competency‐based approach. The authors discuss the impacts of external and internal changes on the local authority and...

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The capacities needed by local authority chief executives

Broussine, Mike - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 13 (2000) 6, pp. 498-507

Research was commissioned to identify the competences that are required by local authority chief executives in the UK …

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Capacity building for decentralisation in Mexico: a psychosocial approach

Pick, Susan; Xocolotzin, Ulises; Ruesga, Carolina - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 20 (2007) 2, pp. 157-166

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to examine which competencies have to be addressed in individual training programs that can help government officials to implement decentralisation policies in Mexico. The paper is based on a psychosocial approach to training seeking to enhance...

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Competence‐creation in the African public sector

Kamoche, Ken - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 4, pp. 268-278

competences which are based on the organization’s core strategic activities. Introduces recent developments in the management of …

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Public sector executive development in Australia: 2000 and beyond

Morley, Karen; Vilkinas, Tricia - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 10 (1997) 6, pp. 401-416

Reports the beginning of a process for identifying significant skills in the recruitment, development and retention of high calibre public sector executives. Focuses on the qualities which will be of significance in the public sector in the year 2000 and beyond. Compares the research available...

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