Avoiding Discrimination in Competency Design: the Business Case
Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge
Competency design has become a core business strategy. This article argues that incorporating the principles of equality and diversity in competency frameworks is critical, not only to prevent these frameworks becoming a tool of discrimination but also from a strategic business perspective.
The author draws on research and her own experience of working with companies on incorporating equality and diversity principles into competency frameworks. Examples of behavioural indicators that explicitly incorporate principles of equality and diversity are presented along with suggestions for how existing frameworks might be modified and new frameworks developed.
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Publication details:
Competency & Emotional Intelligence, vol.7, no.3, 2000, pp37-41.
This article also features in "The IRS Handbook on Competencies: Law and Practice", edited by Neil Rankin. Eclipse, London: 2001.