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Competence/y models

Whereas the EQF rates „competence“ on a level with „knowledge“ and „skills“, the German Qualifications Framework (DQR) has „competence“ as the overarching category. It distinguishes:

Professional competence		Professional competence
Knowledge	Skills	Social competence	Autonomy

In education as well as in HR, distinctions between

Professional
Methodological
Social and
Personal or Self-competency

have for some time been in use, all of the four categories/dimensions or „facets“ together making up the full professional action competence.

Competency models often relate to a company and its business goals as well as to the individual employee. Enterprises use their own competency models as a backdrop for HR development and recruiting. They expect that, if developed and implemented effectively, a well-defined competency framework can help to find and keep the best people, to enable better employee performance, and eventually improve business results.

Example: The general competency model of AUDI AG

Professional competencies	Social competencies
Entrepreneurial competencies	Individual competencies

Source: Omert 2007,www.q-zwh.de

This general model contains detailed competency descriptions on department and job role level.

The German Federal Institute for Vocational Education (BIBB) has developed a competency model as a blueprint for redesigning German vocational training regulations. The occupational profile is rearranged as a combination of action fields (Handlungsfelder), which are attributed competency descriptions, like this:

Work/business processes	Professional competency	Methodological competency	Social competency	Personal competency
Action field 1
Action field 2
Action field 3
Action field 4

Source: Hensge/Lorig/Schreiber 2009

In this way a transition can be effected from the traditional occupational profile with its input content to a competency/outcome-based occupational training profile resp. regulations.

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